Recent Guardian pieces on Beijing’s subway and Jerusalem’s light rail: Mao declared the city needed a subway after he visited…
Haruki Murakami’s Tokyo
Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
Link to a great post on the open culture blog: A Photographic Tour of Haruki Murakami’s Tokyo,…
Critical Urban Theory or Urban Critical Theory or Just Critical Theory? (1 of 4)
Originally posted on The Rolling Blackout:
BOOK SYNOPSIS Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City,…
Mapping London over the years
Saw this on The Guardian on mapping London over the years — just as I’m about to leave London for Singapore…
mapping cities by their aural geographies
Saw this post on Chicago, “the most American of American cities” shared by Richard J. White, and found this paragraph particularly…
“It grew as I grew.”
One of my favorite Yi-Fu Tuan quotes: I was only fifteen when I chose geography as my field. Twelve years…
on network participation
Networks of all kinds, including firm networks, are constructed around power relations. Networks encompass hierarchies of power or they wouldn’t…
Some popular fallacies of (cutthroat) intercity competition
Harvey Molotch: Zero-Sum Urbanism How then to help cities compete more effectively? I raise my complaint against the question itself.…
“Urbanists can never afford to be apolitical.”
Urbanists Can Never Afford to be Apolitical: An Interview with Nezar AlSayyad on Urbanization in the Middle East. I think…
Rachel Bok 