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Living For the City:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsjRzm4m1SLECMzBb96XQLA

As the podcast's description notes, "Before Detroit gave the world Motown, techno, and hip-hop, it gave the world something harder to name: a feeling that music made in basements and backrooms and borrowed spaces could become the soundtrack to an entire generation." 

"The full arc of how one city became the unlikely origin point for some of the most influential music ever made, told by the people who were actually there."

Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His bestselling and award-winning books include Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance, and There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, and poetry collections A Fortune for your Disaster and The Crown Ain’t Worth Much."]]></description>
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[via:
https://ablerism.micro.blog/2026/04/29/i-had-fun-speaking-on.html

"I had fun speaking on the Art of Inquiry, a podcast created by two Northeastern engineering students interested in the arts and humanities. My strange career path, my mentor Krzysztof Wodiczko introducing me to interrogative design, raising a child with Down syndrome, studio + lab culture, more."]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The planners dreamed of gleaming cities. Instead they brought three generations of hollowed-out downtowns and flight to the suburbs."

[See also:


"The Demise of Real Neighborhoods Is a Story of Finance"
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-demise-of-real-neighborhoods-is-a-story-of-finance

"America’s neighborhoods were once beautiful, unique, dense, and scaled for a communal life on foot. But obscure federal rules piling up over a century have made it nearly impossible for banks to finance new ones."]]]></description>
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We examined the Boston Red Sox to see how private equity and cost cutting invaded sports.

In this era, teams want to sell good players for profit more than they want to have a good season."]]></description>
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    <title>Localism Against Tribalism - Front Porch Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-18T16:29:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2026/02/localism-against-tribalism/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We ought to see localism not as an accomplice to the tribalism that’s everywhere rising, but as an antidote to it."

...

"On Sunday mornings I play the organ at St. John’s Episcopal Church. At St. John’s, they’re welcoming and affirming and all the rest. Their big thing is “kindness.” Every year they devote a whole month to being kind. The priest is a woman.

On Thursday evenings I take our oldest son to Awana Club at Arbor Oaks Bible Chapel. At Arbor Oaks they think marriage is for men and women, and that men can’t become women. They have lay elders instead of priests. At the Sunday morning service, only men are allowed to address the congregation.

On Tuesdays my wife Elisa takes the kids to “Adventure Club.” Every week, whatever the weather, 5-10 families spend all day exploring a different state park. Elisa started Adventure Club a few years ago. The people who come run the gamut, from a pastor’s wife to an astrologer.

On weekdays, I teach at one of the local colleges, where my office sits in the middle of a hallway. On my left are the economists. There’s a bad Catholic who mostly believes in free markets and a couple who grew up in communist Romania and really believe in free markets. On my right there’s a historian who writes about racism and a philosopher who started our local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Around Christmastime I took the boys to the city orchestra’s holiday concert. The pianist was our son’s piano teacher. The director of the children’s choir was the cantor at St. John’s. In the audience were not a few of my colleagues, including the theologian who grew up in an intentional Christian community and the aforementioned Romanian economists, whose memories of communism might make them a little suspicious of “intentional communities.”

All this mixing is pretty normal in our town. When I’m out and about, I’m always running into friends and acquaintances who are all interestingly different from each other. Of course if you put them all into a room and told them to talk politics or religion, “interesting” might not be the right word for what would happen. But everybody’s neighborly, and it doesn’t feel false or strained.

Sometimes I think Dubuque might be a bit special. I grew up in or around another midwestern city of a similar size (about 60,000), but the social connections there never felt so dense. It’s also possible that I’m the weird one. I’m pretty intellectually promiscuous. Maybe my circle is more diverse than the circles of the people in my circle, and none of them would recognize what I’m talking about. But even if one or both of those things is true, I don’t think it can be the whole story.

We moved here from Boston. Before Boston we lived in Portland (Oregon). Before that it was Seoul, South Korea, and before that it was Toronto. I grew up on a family farm in Indiana, but I’ve spent a lot of my life in big cities, many of them among the vaunted “global” cities that get celebrated in The Economist. Never in any of those places did I encounter so many meaningfully different points of view as I encounter here in this decidedly non-global town. Different views were all around me, I’m sure. But I didn’t encounter them. It was like the ocean and the thirsty man. Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink. In the global cities, I was practically swimming in “diversity.” If I wanted to know just how much diversity there was, I could look up the stats and congratulate myself for floating around serenely in the middle of it all. But it wasn’t easy to do anything besides know about it. So it mostly stayed an “it”—a fact, an abstraction, a non-thing that was “out there” to be known. In Dubuque, where life is smaller, “it” is more often flesh and blood. All those people I’m always running into have names that I know, and they know mine. Here, diversity is something I can actually taste.

I’m not about to say that people in small places are necessarily better at “real diversity” than people in big places. Maybe if I didn’t encounter what was there in those global cities, that’s on me, not on the cities. Partly this must be true. When I look back on how I lived then, I see plenty of missed opportunities to connect. And when I look at people I know now who still live in big places, I see many of them doing a better job than I did of building a complex social life that crosses all kinds of lines. Nor do I regret the time I spent in those places, even if my older self knows what my younger self might have done differently. Adventuring and exploring are good things. And there are lots of good things that can only exist when enough people come together in one place. The Dubuque Symphony Orchestra is great, but it can’t perform Mahler’s 8th.

But the dominant prejudice goes in the opposite direction, and what I do want to say is that it’s just that: a prejudice. We’ve been taught by a lot of our stories to imagine small places as homogenizers. A lot of us have in our heads a black-and-white film-set diner where the locals are eternally turning en masse to stare silently at the stranger who disturbs their regular morning argument about the new traffic light on main street. H. L. Mencken is doing a voice-over narration, which is very funny and makes us feel very good about not being interested in traffic lights. There are lots of zingers about “yokels” and “morons,” and at some point he quotes Marx about “rural idiocy” while saliva drops from the open mouths of the badly dressed white men at the counter.

When the dominant prejudice is challenged, the challenger is often an equally reductive counter-image of small-town coziness in which there are no strangers because everybody knows your name. The Mencken idea is that small places are soul-crushingly boring because nobody’s allowed to be different. The anti-Mencken idea is that small places are nurturing and protective because nobody’s being pressured to stand out. It’s never a very satisfying debate because it’s just a contest between competing generalities. The winner gets to determine the emotional valence that gets instinctively attached to a caricature of a reality far richer and more complicated.

A better conversation would counter the dominant prejudice against small places with an emphasis on just how different people in small places can be from one another. I don’t mean this in the usual sense, which is that every single person is the center of an unrepeatable story, and it’s just a question of whether you’re attentive enough to notice what makes us all unique. That’s true enough, but it’s the sort of high-brow cliche that novelists like to trot out when they’re trying to explain why everybody should read novels. I happen to agree that everybody should read novels, and that this is one of the reasons. If you read widely enough, you learn that when you know how to look at it, the life of a contented housewife in Peoria becomes just as compelling as the life of a striving artist in New York. But that way of defending small town life from big city prejudice can give too much ground to the prejudice, and too much credit to the novelist. It argues that under the surface there’s diversity in small places, and that you’ll see it if your vision is sharp enough. The stronger argument is that there’s actually plenty of diversity on the surface, and that it takes wilful blindness to overlook it.

That’s the point of those examples I opened with. None of the differences between the people I mention are hard to parse. It’s simple, big-picture stuff, the kinds of social cleavages and ideological divides that sort people into camps and parties and keep the demographers busy shoveling fresh statistics to the talking heads. You can easily predict who most people at St. John’s voted for, and who most people at Arbor Oaks voted for, without knowing them as individuals. Certainly it’s better to know people as individuals, and I’m not entirely convinced that demography isn’t of the devil. But tribes are real, and as long as they are, it helps to realize that small places can contain multitudes as well as any global city.

Or maybe they can contain them even better. In its more negative sense, “tribal” is a pretty good word for what seems to be unfolding now on the grander stage of the nation and its bigger cities. I don’t know what recently happened in Minneapolis, for example. But when the stage is this big, it doesn’t really matter. All that matters is which tribe I trust to tell me what happened in a city I’ve never visited. And I trust the tribe I want to win. I don’t want them to win because I trust them; I trust them because I want them to win. My trust is a political resource I want them to have. Because they’re my tribe. That’s it.

That’s tribalism. Not the fact that tribes exist, but the relentless reduction of every question about “the facts” to one that can be answered by that fact. And the truly countercultural claim is that this reduction is something that happens more easily when the scale of political life is big than when it’s small.

Part of the Mencken story about local life is that tribalism flourishes when people don’t have enough contact with members of other tribes, and that this cross-tribal contact is harder to experience in small places than in big ones. The best response isn’t to accept the premise but then to insist that in small places it’s easier to get to know people more deeply, as individuals. That’s probably not even true. If your aim is to connect on that level, then by definition you should be able to do it in a big place as well as in a small place, since people are individuals either way. No, the best response is to insist that it might actually be easier in small places to meet people on the more superficial level, as members of other tribes.

If that’s true, then localism takes on more urgency the more tribalistic we get. We ought to see localism not as an accomplice to the tribalism that’s everywhere rising, but as an antidote to it. And it’s not an antidote that depends on the moral quality of the locals. What I’m talking about here is structure, not character. Localism works against tribalism not because people who live in small places are saints who love their enemies (they’re not), but because they’re literally more likely to meet their enemies in contexts in which their enmities are irrelevant. On the local level, it’s just as easy to have your tribal differences, but it’s a lot harder for them to become the most important thing, which is what leads to tribalism.

But we ought to be intentional about it, too, especially if we call ourselves localists, as opposed to just being locals. We didn’t really plan to get involved with two very different kinds of churches, but I think it’s good that we are, and now we try to actively cultivate our relationships in both places. Elisa doesn’t exactly control who comes to Adventure Club (it’s pretty self-selecting), but she certainly wanted it to become what it is, and she does a lot of work to make it work. I didn’t choose my colleagues at work, but I’m glad they exist. (Not getting to choose is an important part of all this; a lot of the tribalism we face now is downstream of having too much control over who we interact with.) Maybe that’s the most important thing: that you actually come to like all this random hobnobbing with “the Other.” It’s just good clean fun to run into people you know, even and especially if they’re on the other side of the Big Issues. When tribal differences don’t degenerate into tribalism, it’s possible to enjoy them.

Real “diversity” isn’t some dramatic idea that you loudly believe in. It’s a simple, everyday pleasure. Seek it out. And realize that you’re more likely to find it when the stage is small."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One way that Silicon Valley and the Communist Party resemble each other is that both are serious, self-serious, and indeed, completely humorless.

If the Bay Area once had an impish side, it has gone the way of most hardware tinkerers and hippie communes. Which of the tech titans are funny? In public, they tend to speak in one of two registers. The first is the blandly corporate tone we’ve come to expect when we see them dragged before Congressional hearings or fireside chats. The second leans philosophical, as they compose their features into the sort of reverie appropriate for issuing apocalyptic prophecies on AI. Sam Altman once combined both registers at a tech conference when he said: “I think that AI will probably, most likely, sort of lead to the end of the world. But in the meantime, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning.” Actually that was pretty funny.

It wouldn’t be news to the Central Committee that only the paranoid survive. The Communist Party speaks in the same two registers as the tech titans. The po-faced men on the Politburo tend to make extraordinarily bland speeches, laced occasionally with a murderous warning against those who cross the party’s interests. How funny is the big guy? We can take a look at an official list of Xi Jinping’s jokes, helpfully published by party propagandists. These wisecracks include the following: “On an inspection tour to Jiangsu, Xi quipped that the true measure of water cleanliness is whether the mayor would dare to swim in the water.” Or try this reminiscence that Xi offered on bad air quality: “The PM2.5 back then was even worse than it is now; I used to joke that it was PM250.” Yes, such a humorous fellow is the general secretary.

It’s nearly as dangerous to tweet a joke about a top VC as it is to make a joke about a member of the Central Committee. People who are dead serious tend not to embody sparkling irony. Yet the Communist Party and Silicon Valley are two of the most powerful forces shaping our world today. Their initiatives increase their own centrality while weakening the agency of whole nation states. Perhaps they are successful because they are remorseless.

Earlier this year, I moved from Yale to Stanford. The sun and the dynamism of the west coast have drawn me back. I found a Bay Area that has grown a lot weirder since I lived there a decade ago. In 2015, people were mostly working on consumer apps, cryptocurrencies, and some business software. Though it felt exciting, it looks in retrospect like a more innocent, even a more sedate, time. Today, AI dictates everything in San Francisco while the tech scene plays a much larger political role in the United States. I can’t get over how strange it all feels. In the midst of California’s natural beauty, nerds are trying to build God in a Box; meanwhile, Peter Thiel hovers in the background presenting lectures on the nature of the Antichrist. This eldritch setting feels more appropriate for a Gothic horror novel than for real life.

Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I want to say that I am rooting for San Francisco. It’s tempting to gawk at the craziness of the culture, as much of the east coast media tends to do. Yes, one can quickly find people who speak with the conviction of a cultist; no, I will not inject the peptides proffered by strangers. But there’s more to the Bay Area than unusual health practices. It is, after all, a place that creates not only new products, but also new modes of living. I’m struck that some east coast folks insist to me that driverless cars can’t work and won’t be accepted, even as these vehicles populate the streets of the Bay Area. Coverage of Silicon Valley increasingly reminds me of coverage of China, where a legacy media reporter might parachute in, write a dispatch on something that looks deranged, and leave without moving past caricature.

I enjoy San Francisco more than when I was younger because I now better appreciate what makes it work. I believe that Silicon Valley possesses plenty of virtues. To start, it is the most meritocratic part of America. Tech is so open towards immigrants that it has driven populists into a froth of rage. It remains male-heavy and practices plenty of gatekeeping. But San Francisco better embodies an ethos of openness relative to the rest of the country. Industries on the east coast — finance, media, universities, policy — tend to more carefully weigh name and pedigree. Young scientists aren’t told they ought to keep their innovations incremental and their attitude to hierarchy duly deferential, as they might hear in Boston. A smart young person could achieve much more over a few years in SF than in DC. People aren’t reminiscing over some lost golden age that took place decades ago, as New Yorkers in media might do. 

San Francisco is forward looking and eager to try new ideas. Without this curiosity, it wouldn’t be able to create whole new product categories: iPhones, social media, large language models, and all sorts of digital services. For the most part, it’s positive that tech values speed: quick product cycles, quick replies to email. Past success creates an expectation that the next technological wave will be even more exciting. It’s good to keep building the future, though it’s sometimes absurd to hear someone pivot, mid-breath, from declaring that salvation lies in the blockchain to announcing that AI will solve everything.

People like to make fun of San Francisco for not drinking; well, that works pretty well for me. I enjoy board games and appreciate that it’s easier to find other players. I like SF house parties, where people take off their shoes at the entrance and enter a space in which speech can be heard over music, which feels so much more civilized than descending into a loud bar in New York. It’s easy to fall into a nerdy conversation almost immediately with someone young and earnest. The Bay Area has converged on Asian-American modes of socializing (though it lacks the emphasis on food). I find it charming that a San Francisco home that is poorly furnished and strewn with pizza boxes could be owned by a billionaire who can’t get around to setting up a bed for his mattress. 

There’s still no better place for a smart, young person to go in the world than Silicon Valley. It adores the youth, especially those with technical skill and the ability to grind. Venture capitalists are chasing younger and younger founders: the median age of the latest Y Combinator cohort is only 24, down from 30 just three years ago. My favorite part of Silicon Valley is the cultivation of community. Tech founders are a close-knit group, always offering help to each other, but they circulate actively amidst the broader community too. (The finance industry in New York by contrast practices far greater secrecy.) Tech has organizations I think of as internal civic institutions that try to build community. They bring people together in San Francisco or retreats north of the city, bringing together young people to learn from older folks.

Silicon Valley also embodies a cultural tension. It is playing with new ideas while being open to newcomers; at the same time, it is a self-absorbed place that doesn’t think so much about the broader world. Young people who move to San Francisco already tend to be very online. They know what they’re signing up for. If they don’t fit in after a few years, they probably won’t stick around. San Francisco is a city that absorbs a lot of people with similar ethics, which reinforces its existing strengths and weaknesses.

Narrowness of mind is something that makes me uneasy about the tech world. Effective altruists, for example, began with sound ideas like concern for animal welfare as well as cost-benefit analyses for charitable giving. But these solid premises have launched some of its members towards intellectual worlds very distant from moral intuitions that most people hold; they’ve also sent a few into jail. The well-rounded type might struggle to stand out relative to people who are exceptionally talented in a technical domain. Hedge fund managers have views about the price of oil, interest rates, a reliably obscure historical episode, and a thousand other things. Tech titans more obsessively pursue a few ideas — as Elon Musk has on electric vehicles and space launches — rather than developing a robust model of the world.

So the 20-year-olds who accompanied Mr. Musk into the Department of Government Efficiency did not, I would say, distinguish themselves with their judiciousness. The Bay Area has all sorts of autistic tendencies. Though Silicon Valley values the ability to move fast, the rest of society has paid more attention to instances in which tech wants to break things. It is not surprising that hardcore contingents on both the left and the right have developed hostility to most everything that emerges from Silicon Valley. 

There’s a general lack of cultural awareness in the Bay Area. It’s easy to hear at these parties that a person’s favorite nonfiction book is Seeing Like a State while their aspirationally favorite novel is Middlemarch. Silicon Valley often speaks in strange tongues, starting podcasts and shows that are popular within the tech world but do not travel far beyond the Bay Area. Though San Francisco has produced so much wealth, it is a relative underperformer in the national culture. Indie movie theaters keep closing down while all sorts of retail and art institutions suffer from the crumminess of downtown. The symphony and the opera keep cutting back on performances — after Esa-Pekka Salonen quit the directorship of the symphony, it hasn’t been able to name a successor. Wealthy folks in New York and LA have, for generations, pumped money into civic institutions. Tech elites mostly scorn traditional cultural venues and prefer to fund the next wave of technology instead.

One of the things I like about the finance industry is that it might be better at encouraging diverse opinions. Portfolio managers want to be right on average, but everyone is wrong three times a day before breakfast. So they relentlessly seek new information sources; consensus is rare, since there are always contrarians betting against the rest of the market. Tech cares less for dissent. Its movements are more herdlike, in which companies and startups chase one big technology at a time. Startups don’t need dissent; they want workers who can grind until the network effects kick in. VCs don’t like dissent, showing again and again that many have thin skins. That contributes to a culture I think of as Silicon Valley’s soft Leninism. When political winds shift, most people fall in line, most prominently this year as many tech voices embraced the right. 

The two most insular cities I’ve lived in are San Francisco and Beijing. They are places where people are willing to risk apocalypse every day in order to reach utopia. Though Beijing is open only to a narrow slice of newcomers — the young, smart, and Han — its elites must think about the rest of the country and the rest of the world. San Francisco is more open, but when people move there, they stop thinking about the world at large. Tech folks may be the worst-traveled segment of American elites. People stop themselves from leaving in part because they can correctly claim to live in one of the most naturally beautiful corners of the world, in part because they feel they should not tear themselves away from inventing the future. More than any other topic, I’m bewildered by the way that Silicon Valley talks about AI."]]></description>
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    <title>Democrats’ New Abundance Platform Isn’t Playing Out Well in San Francisco</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-27T02:56:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/democrats-new-abundance-platform-isnt-playing-out-well-in-san-francisco</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Under billionaire rule, the city’s so-called abundance means more for the rich—and less for everyone else."

...

"Billionaire-backed “moderates” have recently gained control of all arms of government in San Francisco and, just like that, a yearslong, concerted campaign to brand the city as failing and to pin blame on progressives has vanished. Our newest paper—which, incidentally, is also billionaire-backed—recently confirmed it: The Doom Loop is “Out”. 

Those living outside the Bay Area may not have heard of the “Doom Loop.” But progressives everywhere ought to familiarize themselves with this recent history before it shows up at their door. Over several years, a network of wealthy tech industry leaders pummeled every airwave available with a narrative that San Francisco was a failed city awash in dangerous criminals and unchecked violence (in direct contradiction of actual data), and this was all somehow the result of progressive policies enacted by people like me. Elon Musk took to X to call for my imprisonment and pledged $100,000 to unseat me from office. Venture capitalist and tech CEO Garry Tan, who called for me and several of my colleagues to “die slow motherfuckers” and donated $50,000 to the “Dump Dean” PAC, was one of the architects of this campaign. Tan told his listeners at an event that "if we can do this in San Francisco, we can do it anywhere." It worked.

After serving five years on the city’s Board of Supervisors as the lone Democratic Socialist, I was unseated in Nov. 2024—one key race in a sweeping transformation that has turned the country’s most famously progressive city into a test lab for billionaire politics.

With a new majority on the Board of Supervisors, along with control over the Mayor’s and District Attorney’s Offices, the school board, and the local Democratic County Central Committee, political power in San Francisco has been consolidated in the hands of so-called “moderates” funded by and friendly to the interests of the tech and real estate industries. Put in the language of our political moment, San Francisco’s halls of power are awash with Abundance. Not coincidentally, San Franciscans are suffering more than ever in just about every measurable way, and City Hall is simply ignoring their plight. 

Mayor Daniel Lurie, a political novice and heir to the Levi’s fortune, understands that what happens on his watch shapes perceptions of his Administration. Since his January 2025 inauguration, he’s hired high-paid consultants to help shape his image, and somebody is scrubbing anything controversial from his Wikipedia. Lurie also understands how damaging it was for our city’s national reputation when the last mayor, London Breed, embraced the Doom Loop narratives and those who invented it. She amplified unfair and inaccurate criticism of our city, tried to use it to her political advantage, and lost her next election resoundingly. While I understand why this new Mayor forcefully accentuates the positive, the fact is that, for most residents, life in San Francisco is getting worse under billionaire control. 

San Franciscans are highly preoccupied with Trump’s shocking and constant attacks on democracy, ICE raids disappearing of our neighbors, and exacerbation of the two-year-long genocide in Gaza. Mayor Lurie barely acknowledges these issues. In contrast to big city mayors like Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Lurie refuses to take a stand against ICE kidnappings and his police department won’t even protect those who do. Outrageously, SFPD’s stated position is that its priority is to protect ICE agents from protestors. 

This is a stunning lack of leadership for a Democratic mayor in a sanctuary city widely considered to be the nation’s progressive heartland, at the precise moment when American fascism begs confrontation. But even more squarely on the plate of San Francisco’s current leaders is the fact that local economic conditions have rapidly deteriorated for the city’s working people and poor in the short time since they came into power. 

San Francisco rents are the highest in the Bay Area and the second highest in the entire country, surging 11.5 percent in the year ending in August 2025—the highest increase in the nation. Wages have failed to rise at the same rate, with $100k salaries now qualifying as “low income” and families still unable to afford area rents. Meanwhile, San Franciscans still can’t find jobs. The full embrace of AI and its impacts on SF affordability is making previous tech booms look like child’s play. AI is automating entry level jobs, and unemployment is way up for white collar jobs, with analysts saying that job decline looks like it did during the 2008 recession.  

Evictions are at their highest level in years and the rate has nearly doubled in the last year alone. The city is on track to hit 3,800 court eviction filings this year, up 16 percent from last year and the highest in over a decade. While this might be welcome news for corporate landlords seeking to flip apartments, it’s a disaster for San Franciscans struggling to survive and avoid homelessness.

Bus service has been slashed with cuts to numerous lines, undoing years of work to restore service after the pandemic. On top of that, fares were raised this year, kicking Muni riders when they are down. Billionaires and billionaire-backed political leaders have offered no extra resources to Muni, forcing cuts to continue. This has been done while aggressively expanding private alternatives to transit. A week after announcing that main bus lines would no longer travel down Market street, the Mayor announced Waymo and Uber X would be allowed to use this supposedly “car-free” transit corridor. 

Bold promises have been abandoned. Just as Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, Lurie promised 1,500 new treatment beds in his first six months. Neither had a plan to accomplish these campaign promises. Both have failed. 

Without housing or treatment to offer, Lurie has ramped up arrests of people with behavioral health problems and people lacking stable housing. The jail population has surged to about 1,300 people daily. Our city’s progress in reducing the number of nonviolent offenders who languish in our jails has been reversed, disproportionately impacting low-income people, and particularly black and brown people and their families. 

Privatization is on a rampage. San Francisco’s only city-run nonpolice community ambassador program—a highly successful model—was eliminated entirely, paving the way for a complete takeover of nonpolice ambassador programs by private contractors. Lurie has slashed funding for crucial public services, and then handed PR opportunities to billionaires like Michael Moritz to backfill pennies on those slashed dollars. At the same time, control over public infrastructure is being seized by billionaires like Chris Larsen, who recently funded a new $9.4 million surveillance unit at the SF Police Department, where officers use drones, automated license-plate readers and other “modern crime-fighting tools” to “catch criminals.” (The unit is housed in Larsen’s corporate offices, in a building complex owned by Donald Trump and his associates). The capture of public infrastructure by billionaires ensures that funds are directed to the programs and services they hold dear. Hint: it isn’t the bus.

Now, Mayor Lurie has gone a step further by formally convening an A-list of billionaire CEOs to advise him on policy. The roster of “Partnership for San Francisco” includes Sam Altman of OpenAI, Ruth Porat of Google and Alphabet, Brian Chesky of AirBnB, and even Y Combinator’s Garry Tan (yes, the “die slow motherfuckers” Garry Tan). Public policy is looking astoundingly private. 

Meanwhile, the Transgender District was defunded, forcing the district to open a GoFundMe to survive. Immigrants lost funding for legal services. Food programs have been slashed. Affordable housing funds have been diverted. The Black community, in particular, has fared poorly under billionaire rule. Reparations recommendations adopted unanimously by the previous Board of Supervisors have been fully abandoned. The City has indefinitely delayed activation of the Fillmore Heritage Center, a key city-owned site in the heart of an historically Black neighborhood once known as the “Harlem of the West” that was devastated by “urban renewal.” The Fillmore’s only grocery store has been shuttered, along with multiple neighborhood pharmacies. The list goes on. Community leaders feel they have been abandoned by City Hall.

At a time when Democrats across the country are being begged by their constituents to stand for something, the local Democratic party and City Hall leaders are proudly championing their “moderate” bona fides, standing for nothing. They offer concerts and vibe shifts in place of principles, and elevate civility and cheerfulness over results. At every opportunity, this new political formation ignores the housing and economic needs of working people and those in poverty. In some ways, it feels like the dystopian fantasies of the Network State movement are being grafted onto our living, beloved city: limitless police spending, elimination of social programs, privatization of public services, and repression of any dissenting views. 

I’m rooting for SF’s success as I have every day for the 32 years I’ve lived here. But we have to be real about the impact of installing inexperienced, tech-industry aligned conservatives to run all branches of government. It’s already a failed experiment. San Francisco is in serious jeopardy because of the rising rents, evictions, unemployment, mass incarceration, income inequality, racism, and privatization that billionaires are inflicting on our city. While some may see the excessive accumulation at the top as “abundance,” it looks an awful lot like a war against the city’s working people."]]></description>
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    <title>The simplest, hardest way to &quot;live like a local&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-30T18:21:34+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Recently, people have sent me messages asking for travel insight about specific cities I have either lived in or been to. Often, these messages ask me if I have any advice about how the sender can “live like a local.” The wording and intent are always the same: the sender wants to avoid “touristy” things and, instead, experience the destination as a long-term resident would.

The thing is, nobody ever actually wants to “live like a local” when they are traveling. Instead, they want to live like a romanticized, idealized version of a local that they have in their head, which generally means that they want advice on how to have a luxurious, personal experience that makes them feel like they are in a dream culture while they are away from their normal lives for a few precious days. In addition, they generally don’t want to be reminded of their utter foreign-ness; really, they want to be separated from other foreigners.

But for anyone who really wants to “live like a local,” the real anwser to these requests is simple, but not easy. Here are ten universal tips for how to actually live like a local no matter where you go.

[image: "Local transportation, Kerala, India"]

1. Get a Visa that allows you to work, preferably with a route to citizenship.

If you want to understand local life, you will need to work, which means you will first need to get a visa that allows you to work legally.* One wonderful result: this will also allow you to stay in a place longer than a typical tourist. This visa could be a skilled worker visa, temporary worker visa, training or research visas, remote worker visas - you get the idea. Besides work, this visa will generally allow you to open a bank account, sign a lease for an apartment or house, pay taxes, and maybe even get a driver’s license. By hook or by crook, then, you need to get a visa that allows you to stay and make a living.

[image: "Stamford Raffles Statue, Singapore. He was a migrant worker."]

2. Use the Visa to get at least one job.

In most of the places I have gone, locals have at least one job, and, sometimes, two or three. Some of them are simply making money to survive; some are pursuing their passions; others are working multiple side hustles (backyard chickens for eggs, taking in sewing, etc.) to just make a few extra cents, knowing that a diversified income stream might help in hard times. To really live like a local, you need to do the same - get a job, no matter what that job might be (as long as it’s local - remote working for a “distributed” company doesn’t count). Having at least one source of income will also help you better understand things like local taxes, payment systems, work culture, bargaining, and the financial pressures that locals face. Plus, you get to make money! Whatever the job, working a local job is the second step to really living like a local.

[image]

3. Work really, really hard.

In London, people hustle two jobs just to be able to afford a closet-sized room; floor space that extends beyond the foot of their bed is often a sign of a connection to organized crime (or oil money). In New York, banks are under pressure to cap their junior worker office hours to something like 70 hours a week; in China, and indeed in much of Asia, 70 hours a week sitting at a desk sounds like a cute vacation compared to the drudgery of their low-paid factory jobs. In Cairo and Chicago, Lusaka and Luanda, Boston and Bangkok, people keep their noses to proverbial (and sometimes literal) grindstones.

You get the idea. Locals often work extremely hard to survive wherever they are living. If you want to live like a local, you will have to as well. The third step, then: hustle as hard as you do back at home to make a living.

[image: "I met this guy at 11 p.m. in Kochi, India. He was selling vegetables in a market. He also had a day job in a shop, and was a lead actor in a local television show - his moustache helped him land a role as a gullible police chief."]

4. Learn the language

Learning the local language is non-negotiable. It’s not enough to have a few key words or phrases poorly memorized from a guidebook - you’ll need to be able to plead with a parking officer to not give you a ticket, ask the butcher how spicy the sausages are, understand what the bus driver is telling you to do with your shopping bags when the bus is crowded, and be a part of the inside jokes at work. Even if your job is to speak your native tongue, you need to learn to communicate in a different one; learning the local language is critical to going to a new place and “living like a local.”

[image]

5. Know where to shop

Harrod’s, Liberty, Selfridges - I don’t have the numbers, but I would bet that these stores aren’t profitable because London residents shop at them. Instead, their broadest customer base is likely tourists who want to walk out of their storied doors with ostentatious shopping bags that show others that they have shopped somewhere fancy. I’d bet the same applies to the Hermes and Louis Vuitton stores in Paris, or the Prada and Zegna stores in Milan; the clerks won’t be speaking English or Mandarin by accident.

When people want to live like a local, they want to be told to go to the fancy shops, because they often imagine that locals - at least in Europe - have extravagant lifestyles. But. The bulk of Londoners won’t get onions at Fortnum and Mason, and the majority of actual Parisians aren’t walking around with Birkin bags. Instead, for food, they will go to Tesco or Carrefour; for clothes, they probably shop at H&M or Mango. Perfume? Sephora, or maybe just whatever is available at the local pharmacy. Other daily needs? Sigh…probably Amazon.

The lesson: if you really want to live like a local, avoid luxury shopping binges; they won’t serve you. Instead, follow the crowds and go mass-market. It’s what the locals do.

[image: "Bangkok. The most wonderfully friendly and delicious fruit stand I have ever been to."]

6. Get stuff.

I don't mean, have things that you collect – I mean, accumulate, accumulate, accumulate. We live in an age of material abundance, and people everywhere, whether we're talking about California or Crete or Cambodia, accumulate lots of stuff, and don't get rid of it. If you want to really live like a local, forget about traveling light, or minimizing your footprint. When you find those local stores, go into debt supporting them.

7. In your free time, don’t go out. Instead, drink at home while binge-watching Netflix.

The vast majority of people, no matter where they are, spend a huge amount of their free time at home, staring at screens, regardless of whether they are with their families or alone. They don’t read books; they don’t go to exhibitions; they don’t join clubs. They look at their screens, often watching videos made by people who live completely different lives thousands of miles away.

If you really want to live like a local, try as much as possible to do the same – don't go out to the theatre, don't go to museums, don't go on tours to learn anything. Opportunity to engage with real people? Skip it. Chance to build a community, however temporary? Pass. Instead, buy a couple of bottles at the grocery store around the corner, take them home, and focus on a screen.

(Like the one you’re looking at right now.)

[image]

8. Walk down the street staring at your phone.

Similar to six: none of this “seeing the world around you” or “interacting with other people” malarky. No matter where you are, no matter what the culture is, hordes of people now walk down the street staring at the their phones, ignoring everyone and everything around them. You might be in the most beautiful, vibrant, interesting place in the world, and you can bet that people are not paying attention to it because of social media. If you want to live like a local, do the same. You get bonus points if you also have noise-cancelling headphones on so that sound and sight - the two most important senses for perceiving danger - are mostly taken away from you.

[image]

9. Rage against bureaucracy and an inefficient government.

Local and national governments everywhere seem to be run by complete morons, people who should not be trusted with their own credit cards, much less a sizeable budget or real power over others. You’ll soon start seeing problems with potholes, trash collection, public transportation, construction corruption - the list goes on and on. It’s important to know exactly what the problems are with wherever you are so that you can move on to step ten…

[image]

10. Leave.

Of the fifty people I was closest to from high school in San Diego, California, I know of four who stayed in the 619 area code. When I lived in LA, my closest friends planned to go to Portland, Chicago, Boston, and New York for more sophisticated culture or more interesting work, forgetting that half of the people in California are refugees from these colder cities. In Barcelona, people talked openly about going to Berlin or London (or, secretly, Madrid), where there was more opportunity; people in Berlin and London dream of moving to Barcelona for the weather and lifestyle. In Cleveland, people wanted to live two hours south, in Columbus, which they believed (accurately) was safer and more prosperous; when I visited Columbus, people talked longingly of moving to Cleveland, which they believed (accurately) was way more fun and interesting. People in Budapest couldn’t believe I was from California; why didn’t I stay there, in such a beautiful place? And people in Scotland regularly ask why I left America, while Americans think I am a genius to get out and establish a life in a place that isn’t batshit crazy.

No matter where people are, it seems that they want to leave, that the grass is always greener. So, if you want to really be like a local, ignore the good things about where you live. Don’t love where you are and don’t appreciate what you have. Instead, covet whatever it is that people have elsewhere, and do whatever you can to go somewhere else for at least a while - and possibly forever, if you can get the right visa.

That’s it. If you really want to live like a local someplace you are traveling, it’s a simple path, but not always easy. Thoughts? Pop them below. "]]></description>
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Food Not Bombs
https://foodnotbombs.net/new_site/

Seven Steps to Starting a Food Not Bombs
https://foodnotbombs.net/seven_steps_flyer.pdf

Keith on Twitter
https://x.com/keith_mchenry

Keith on Substack
https://keithmchenry.substack.com/ "]]></description>
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    <link>https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2025/sf-bay-area-aging-demographics/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Bay Area is facing a doom loop. It’s just not the one we usually think about.

For years we’ve heard of the potential economic doom spiral circling San Francisco, where a massive city budget deficit fueled by remote work leads to poorer services and even more residents fleeing. But another threat has been building in relative silence.

The Bay Area is getting old fast, and it’s accelerating. Though aging is a global trend, the San Francisco metro area — which includes San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo and Marin counties — is already the third-oldest among 20 of the largest regions in the U.S., trailing only two places in Florida. And no other region is growing older at a quicker pace."

[See also:

"Do you live in one of the Bay Area’s oldest neighborhoods? Check this map"
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/aging-neighborhood-map-survey-20761172.php ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Norman Smith has dedicated his life to protecting and relocating the snowy owls from Boston’s busiest airport runways. Called “the Owl Man of Logan Airport,” Smith has single-handedly relocated more than 900 snowy owls, creating the blueprint for how airports across the US and Canada can manage wildlife conflict."

[See also:

"The ‘owl man’ is busy at Boston Logan airport
Norman Smith has trapped and released more than 900 Arctic raptors for the safety of the birds and the planes."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/04/23/snowy-owls-raptors-boston-airport/
https://archive.ph/0fEGk ]]]></description>
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    <title>Teaching in a ‘Sanctuary City’ Under Siege</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["My high school students are targets in Trump’s cruel deportation spree. It can’t be allowed to continue."

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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Research shows people in the U.S. think traffic deaths are inevitable, but they aren't."]]></description>
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    <title>Shifting Patterns of Social Interaction: Exploring the Social Life of Urban Spaces Through A.I. | NBER</title>
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    <title>The Origins and Impacts of YIMBYism with Jemma DeCristo &amp; Toshio Meronek of Sad Francisco - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this episode we're collaborating with Toshio Meronek and Jemma DeCristo to discuss the YIMBY "movement" and the impacts that it has had on already marginalized people in San Francisco. We'll talk about where this "movement" comes from, what its aims are, and the impacts it has on both poor and low income residents of major cities, and on radical organizing spaces. We'll also talk about how Kamala Harris' housing plans might be thought of in relation to YIMBYism. 

Jemma DeCristo is the author of the forthcoming book The Aesthetic Character of Blackness. She is a frequent contributor to the podcast Sad Francisco and an organizer in San Francisco.

Toshio Meronek’s writing has appeared in Al Jazeera, The Nation, them, Truthout, Vice News, and more. They host the podcast Sad Francisco, and their book Miss Major Speaks is out now from Verso.

Fundraisers:

Dahnoun Mutual Aid - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yOp3t_TYjqM4iq1P4wMqWaeZ0BcJIAxI/view

Bay to Gaza Mutual Aid Collective - https://www.bay2gaza.org/fundraisers

Sad Francisco: https://www.patreon.com/sadfrancisco (and wherever you get your podcasts)

Miss Major Speaks: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2787-miss-major-speaks

Jemma DeCristo previously joined us for a discussion with Eric A. Stanley on "What Really Makes a San Francisco Liberal Dangerous": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlhdMF9yvNQ "]]></description>
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    <title>A Sense of Rebellion</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["These mavericks crave responsive tech. And a more humane AI. But are they humane & responsive enough to deliver?

A Podcast Series by Evgeny Morozov. Original music by Brian Eno.

Forget the military or Silicon Valley: we owe our smart technologies - from toothbrushes to beds - to a band of eccentric 1960s hippies. Hidden away in a secretive, privately funded lab on Boston’s waterfront, these visionaries developed intimate, personal technologies a decade before Steve Jobs.

But their rebellion was fraught with obstacles: the military-industrial complex, corporate resistance, and the founders’ larger-than-life personalities. As Silicon Valley adopted their ideas, the lab's vision for more humane and diverse technologies was twisted into something entirely different.

A decade in the making, this podcast unravels their captivating and often tragic tale. It's all here: Cold War psychiatry, Maoism, LSD, the Rockefellers, Scientology, CIA’s forays into extrasensory perception, and even the advent of tech libertarianism."

...

"HIGHLIGHTS

A Sense of Rebellion is written, presented, and produced by Evgeny Morozov, one of Big Tech’s first and fiercest critics. He is the author of THE NET DELUSION (2011) and TO SAVE EVERYTHING, CLICK HERE (2013), both listed among 100 notable books of the year by The New York Times. In 2018, Politico named him one of Europe’s 28 most influential people.

This is the second installment in Morozov’s podcast trilogy on the “tech rebels who failed” (The Santiago Boys, on Chile’s short-lived experiment in cybernetic socialism, was the first).

Part Cold War thriller, part psychological drama, part history of AI that may have been, A Sense of Rebellion offers a whirlwind tour through the pre-history of the digital revolution.

The podcast’s soundtrack features a dozen original tracks by Brian Eno.

WHY IT MATTERS

Drawing on a decade of archival research – including during Morozov’s doctoral studies at Harvard - the podcast sheds light on the paths not taken in the development of digital technologies. All of them (including AI) could have been more radical, subversive, and humane.

Today’s interactive technologies prize efficiency and predictability but only at the cost of making us less aware of their often detrimental effects (see mounting concerns about disinformation, filter bubbles, surveillance, etc).

But what if interactive technologies were not just about getting things done but also about broadening our horizons? What if their effects were not hidden but rather immediately made visible? And what if AI was not about cutting humans out of the loop, but, rather, about allowing us to develop new talents and sensibilities?

THE STORY

Forget the military or Silicon Valley: we owe our smart toothbrushes and smart beds to a wild bunch of eccentric hippies from the 1960s. Toiling in a privately funded, secretive lab on Boston’s waterfront, they sought more intimate and personal technologies a whole decade before Steve Jobs!

Yet, the military industrial complex, the resistance from corporate America, and the lab founders’ larger-than-life personalities get in the way of their ambitions.

The podcast ventures into the most unexpected territory: from the fortunes of the Cold War psychiatry to the rise and fall of far-left Maoist groups in Europe, from CIA’s adventures in extra-sensory perception to the emergence of tech libertarianism in the counterculture of the 1960.

THE PEOPLE

The lab at the center of the podcast foreshadows tech startups of the 2000s, with all their excesses, flaws, and utopian ambitions.

The characters behind that secretive lab are truly fascinating. Among them:

Warren Brodey (1924- ): a 100-year-old founder of family therapy turned tech guru turned radical leftist political activist.

Peter Oser (1926-1970): a great grandson of John D. Rockefeller who’s dabbled in Scientology, black magic, and early artificial intelligence.

Avery Johnson (1932-1988): a nerdy heir to the Palmolive fortune who turned an ex-quarry of his into a cybernetic playground.

PRAISE FOR THE SANTIAGO BOYS

“Dramatic and illuminating...Surprisingly riveting.”
Los Angeles Times

“You can hear the care that has gone into the research...The writing is smart, stylish and contains some terrific blink-and-you’ll-miss-them details...Doesn’t shrink from complex ideas and credits its audience with intelligence, curiosity, and, above all, staying power. Like the best podcasts, it leaves you feeling a little bit cleverer for having heard it.”
Financial Times

“As gripping as a Netflix thriller... Perhaps the most important political thriller of the last years...from one of the most important and critical theorists of digitalization...”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany)

“Particularly attentive to the hidden, secret, and violent uses of technology... - the so-called Dark Tech.”
Corriere della Sera (Italy)

“A rich podcast... a beautiful and important production that first and foremost shows how thoroughly political technology is...”
De Correspondent (Netherlands)"]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2023-12-29T07:18:13+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For a month now, wandering over the Sierras,   
A poem had been gathering in my mind,   
Details of significance and rhythm,
The way poems do, but still lacking a focus.   
Last night I remembered the date and it all   
Began to grow together and take on purpose.
   We sat up late while Deneb moved over the zenith   
And I told Marie all about Boston, how it looked   
That last terrible week, how hundreds stood weeping   
Impotent in the streets that last midnight.
I told her how those hours changed the lives of thousands,
How America was forever a different place   
Afterwards for many.
                              In the morning
We swam in the cold transparent lake, the blue   
Damsel flies on all the reeds like millions   
Of narrow metallic flowers, and I thought   
Of you behind the grille in Dedham, Vanzetti,
Saying, “Who would ever have thought we would make this history?”
Crossing the brilliant mile-square meadow   
Illuminated with asters and cyclamen,   
The pollen of the lodgepole pines drifting   
With the shifting wind over it and the blue   
And sulphur butterflies drifting with the wind,   
I saw you in the sour prison light, saying,   
“Goodbye comrade.”
                           In the basin under the crest
Where the pines end and the Sierra primrose begins,   
A party of lawyers was shooting at a whiskey bottle.   
The bottle stayed on its rock, nobody could hit it.
Looking back over the peaks and canyons from the last lake,   
The pattern of human beings seemed simpler   
Than the diagonals of water and stone.   
Climbing the chute, up the melting snow and broken rock,
I remembered what you said about Sacco,
How it slipped your mind and you demanded it be read into the record.
Traversing below the ragged arête,
One cheek pressed against the rock
The wind slapping the other,
I saw you both marching in an army
You with the red and black flag, Sacco with the rattlesnake banner.
I kicked steps up the last snow bank and came   
To the indescribably blue and fragrant
Polemonium and the dead sky and the sterile
Crystalline granite and final monolith of the summit.   
These are the things that will last a long time, Vanzetti,
I am glad that once on your day I have stood among them.   
Some day mountains will be named after you and Sacco.   
They will be here and your name with them,
“When these days are but a dim remembering of the time   
When man was wolf to man.”
I think men will be remembering you a long time   
Standing on the mountains
Many men, a long time, comrade."]]></description>
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    <title>Anarchism in America (1983) - Documentary on the American Anarchy Movement. - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2023-12-14T18:32:36+00:00</dc:date>
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A colorful and provocative survey of anarchism in America, the film attempts to dispel popular misconceptions and trace the historical development of the movement. The film explores the movement both as a native American philosophy stemming from 19th century American traditions of individualism, and as a foreign ideology brought to America by immigrants. The film features rare archival footage and interviews with significant personalities in anarchist history including Murray Boochkin and Karl Hess, and also live performance footage of the Dead Kennedys."]]></description>
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    <title>American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn (2013), by Scott MacDonald [Memory of the World Library]</title>
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[See also:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520275621/american-ethnographic-film-and-personal-documentary#table-of-contents ]]]></description>
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    <title>Nick Kaufmann on Twitter: &quot;Civic tech needs to study history and explore the &quot;usable past&quot;. Everyone in #civictech / @codeforamerica network should read Professor Light's upcoming book States of Childhood, ill attempt to summarize her talk below, although</title>
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https://architecture.mit.edu/computation/lecture/playing-city-building ]

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"Civic tech needs to study history and explore the "usable past". Everyone in #civictech / @codeforamerica network should read Professor Light's upcoming book States of Childhood, ill attempt to summarize her talk below, although it's only what i could grasp in an hour or so.

https://twitter.com/nickkauf/status/1071162000145817601
At @mitsap tonight tweeting about Jennifer Light's lecture "playing at city building" #urbanism #education #civictech 

Light opened the talk with the observation that more disciplines are looking to study history to "look forward by looking backward" #civicfutures #usablepast

In #civictech we know this isnt the first government reform movement with a "techie spin" in the world or us. At the last turn of the century, anxieties about cities birthed the "good government movement" the "googoos" were reformers kinda like #civichackers of today

Like @codeforamerica and also #smartcities boosters, the goo-goos  believed scientific models and tech tools were a source of progress. They were worried about "boss rule" and wanted to "rationalize government" compare to cfa's mottos today

After discussing the good govt movement, Lights set the historical context of shifting expectations around young people's behavior. Child labor laws did not stop children from working however, it was just framed as "play" now

In this context early models of vocational education and educational simulations emerged, including William R. George's "model republic" movement. @Erie @pahlkadot model republics were all over the usa, not as franchised like #cfabrigade but more grassroots diffusion of the idea

There were miniature republics run by children in boston(Cottage Row), Cleveland (Progress  City) Philadelphia (Playground City), etc, where children worked as real pretend public servants

media coverage of the time hailed these civic simulations as educational opportunity/chance for a "second life" for youth. Some of the tenement kids that George put into his program ended up in ivy league schools, and as lawyers, Pub. Servants and admins of their own model cities

The educational theories at the time of the model republics were very similar to today's trends of "gamification" "experiential learning" etc. Light referenced Stanley Hall (imitation/impersonation) and 'identity play'

Long before Bateson and Goffman were muddling the boundary between seriousness/play, model republics were also using that ambiguity to educate and also cut costs of programs literally built and maintained by children. Imagine 1000 kids and 3 admins

John Dewey's philosophy of learning by doing was also heavily referenced in the talk, as George took great inspiration from him and Dewey was a supporter of the model republics.

Light stressed just how much model republic citizens did in their pretend-real jobs, building housing, policing, data collection, safety inspections, and they did it so well that they often circumvented the adult systems. Why send some1 to adult court when junior court works?

This dynamic reminded me so much of #civichackers today with our pretend jobs and weekly hack night play that quickly turns into real jobs for our cities

Another point Light made was that the model republics were very much about assimilation of immigrants into a certain set of white american middleclass values. But before rise of consumerism those values heavily emphasized DIY/activecitizenship/production.

One reason for the decline of the model republics might have been the rise of consumerism and passive consumption valued over production. But we still have things like model U.N. and vocational programs, vestiges of this time.

Again today we have a perceived need to train people for the "new economy", so what can #civictech #civicinnovation #smartcities learn from looking back to historical examples? For one thing, we learn that youth contribution to civic innovation is important and undervalued

When model republics were introduced into schools the educational outcomes were not the only advantage, they saved schools gobs of money through "user generated" labor. Again think about civictech volunteerism today...

At Emerson School, Light said, kids were even repairing the electrical system. And in some cities kids would  stand in for the mayor at real events.

Heres a page describing the establishment of a self-governing body of newsboys in Milwaukee https://www.marquette.edu/cgi-bin/cuap/db.cgi?uid=default&ID=4167&view=Search&mh=1 …

Light closed the talk by remarking on the "vast story of children's unacknowledged labor in the creation of urban America". slide shows how their labor was hidden behind play. Although they couldnt work in factories,can you call it "play" if it involved *building* the playground?

Although Light's upcoming book focuses on America, she said there were civic simulations like this in many countries including the Phillipines, China, England, France...

Model republics were not however a well connected, branded international civic movement like modern #civictech. Light said that while they were promoted at national educational conferences on education or public housing, George lamented not having control of the brand/vision

The result of George's lack of guidelines and a organizational network of model republic practiciorners was many different, idiosyncratic models run by different ppl in different places. @pahlkadot George really needed a  "National Advisory Council" it seems!

For example an Indiana model republic the kids put on their own circuses! George thought some model republics werent following his original values/vision but couldnt do much about it...another theme in #civictech now Fortunately @Open_Maine is allowed to be weirdos too @elburnett

Light emphasized that although the model republics were a tool to assimilate children into a set of values (presumably including colonial, racist, patriarchal, capitalist ones) they were also a site of agency where kids experimented and innovated.

For example, girls in coeducational model republics held public offices and launched voting rights campaigns before the women' suffrage movement gained the rights in the "real" world. Given the power of the republics to do real work this wasnt just a symbolic achievement.

George for his part believed that the kids should figure out model republics for themselves, even if it meant dystopian civics. One model republic kept prisoners in a literal iron cage before eventually abolishing the prison.

Light's talk held huge lessons for the #civictech movement, and the model republic movement is just one of many pieces of history that can be a "usable past" for us. every civic tech brigade should have a "historian" role!

At @Open_Maine weve always been looking back to look forward although I didnt have the "usable past" vocabulary until I saw professor Light's talk today. @ajawitz @elburnett and I have consciously explored history in promoting civic tech in Maine.Other brigades are doing this too

For example, early @Open_Maine (code for maine) posters consciously referenced civilian conservation corps aesthetic #usablepast

We also made a 100y link w/ charitable mechanics movement @MaineMechanics makerspace never happened but @semateos became president and aligned org. with modern #makermovement. we host civichackathons there. #mainekidscode class is in same room that held free drawingclass 100y ago

So you can see why Light's talk has my brain totally buzzing. After all, @Open_Maine  has been dreaming of #civicisland, an experiential #civictech summer camp! Were currently applying to @MozOpenLeaders to develop open source experiential civictech curricula we could use for it.

Next steps here: I want to write an article about the "usable past" concept for #civictech. So if your brigade is engaged with history I wanna talk to you. @JBStephens1 was it you talking about the rotary club model on slack? @CodeForPhilly didnt you make a history timeline?"]]></description>
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    <title>Los Angeles, Houston and the appeal of the hard-to-read city</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This is not going to be a column about all the things the New York Times got wrong about the Los Angeles Times in its recent front-page story by Tim Arango and Adam Nagourney, "A Paper Tears Apart in a City That Never Quite Came Together." It is not, for the most part, going to be about all the things the New York Times got wrong (or simply failed to mention) about Los Angeles itself in that article, which argued that recent turmoil at this newspaper is emblematic of the city's broader lack of support for its major institutions. Plenty of smart people have already weighed in on both fronts.

And yes, every word in the previous sentence links to one of those smart people. Here are a couple more for good measure. When Josh Kun, Carolina Miranda, Daniel Hernandez, David Ulin, Alissa Walker, Matthew Kang and Carolyn Kellogg are united in knocking your analysis of Los Angeles, it might, you know, be a sign.

Anyway. This is going to be a column, instead, about something slightly different: about the legibility (and illegibility) of cities more generally. About how we react — as reporters and critics and simply as people — when we're confronted with a city that doesn't make sense to us right away.

Ten days or so before that story appeared, I spent a long weekend in Houston, meeting up with three old friends ostensibly to see the Warriors, the NBA team I grew up rooting for, play the Rockets — but also just to hang out and eat barbecue and visit the Menil, my favorite museum building in America (just edging out another Texas landmark, the Kimbell in Fort Worth).

Houston is casually written off even more often than Los Angeles, which is saying something. Now the fourth largest city in the country in population — and gaining on third-place Chicago — it's an unruly place in terms of its urbanism, a place that (as Los Angeles once did) has room, or makes room, for a wide spectrum of architectural production, from the innovative to the ugly. Like Los Angeles, it's a city that invested heavily in freeways and other car-centric infrastructure last century and remains, in many neighborhoods, a terrible place to walk.

It's long been a place people go to reinvent themselves, to get rich or to disappear. The flip side of its great tolerance is a certain lack of cohesion, a difficulty in articulating a set of common civic goals. (Here's where I concede that the instinct behind the New York Times piece on L.A., if little about its execution, was perfectly reasonable.) As is the case in Los Angeles, the greatest thing and the worst thing about Houston are one and the same: Nobody cares what anybody else is doing. Freedom in both places sometimes trumps community. It also tends to trump stale donor-class taste.

Roughly one in four residents of Houston's Harris County is foreign-born, a rate nearly as high as those in New York and Los Angeles. Houston's relationship with Dallas, the third biggest city in Texas, is something like L.A.'s with San Francisco; the southern city in each pair is less decorous, less fixed in its civic identity and (at the moment, at least) entirely more vital.

I've been to Houston five or six times; I like spending time there largely because I don't know it as well as I'd like to. That's another way of saying that while I'm there, I'm reminded of the way in which much of the world interacts with and judges Los Angeles, from a position of alienation and even ignorance. I just happen to enjoy that sensation more than most people do.

If I had to put my finger on what unites Houston and Los Angeles, it is a certain elusiveness as urban object. Both cities are opaque and hard to read. What is Houston? Where does it begin and end? Does it have a center? Does it need one? It's tough to say, even when you're there — even when you're looking directly at it.

The same has been said of Los Angeles since its earliest days. Something Carey McWilliams noted about L.A. in 1946 — that it is a place fundamentally ad hoc in spirit, "a gigantic improvisation" — is perhaps even more true of Houston. Before you can pin either city down, you notice that it's wriggled out of your grasp.

People who are accustomed to making quick sense of the world, to ordering it into neat and sharply defined categories, tend to be flummoxed by both places. And reporters at the New York Times are certainly used to making quick sense of the world. If there's one reason the paper keeps getting Los Angeles so spectacularly wrong, I think that's it. Smart, accomplished people don't like being made to feel out of their depth. Los Angeles makes out-of-town reporters feel out of their depth from their first day here.

Their reaction to that feeling, paradoxically enough, is very often to attempt to write that feeling away — to conquer that sense of dislocation by producing a story that sets out to explain Los Angeles in its entirety. Because it's a challenge, maybe, or because they simply can't be convinced, despite all the evidence right in front of them, that Los Angeles, as cities go, is an especially tough nut to crack.

Plenty of journalists have left Los Angeles over the years and moved to New York to work for the New York Times; none of them, as far as I know, has attempted, after two or three months on the job, to write a piece explaining What New York City Means. I can think of many New Yorkers — each of them highly credentialed academically or journalistically or both, which is perhaps the root of the problem — who have come to Los Angeles and tried to pull off that same trick here.

That tendency — to attempt the moon shot, the overarching analysis, too soon — is equal parts hubris and panic. It usually goes about as well as it went this time around for Arango, not incidentally a brand-new arrival in the New York Times bureau here, and Nagourney.

Among the most dedicated scholars of Houston's urban form in recent years has been Lars Lerup, former dean of the Rice University School of Architecture. In his new book of essays, "The Continuous City," he argues that the first step in understanding Houston and cities like it is to begin with a certain humility about the nature and scale of the task.

This kind of city has grown so large — in economic and environmental as well as physical reach — that it begins to stretch beyond our field of vision. The best way to grasp it, according to Lerup, is to understand that it is not Manhattan, Boston, San Francisco or Chicago — to recognize it instead as "a vast field with no distinct borders."

"The old city was a discrete object sitting on a Tuscan hill surrounded by a collectively constructed wall; the new city is everywhere," he writes. "Only when we accept that we can only attain a partial understanding can work begin."

Lerup stresses that huge, spread-out cities like Houston — which he also calls "distributed cities," places where "the spiky downtown is just a blip in the flatness" — have long been tough to read, in part because they are "always in the throes of change." But the relationship between urbanization and climate change has added a new layer of complexity, because big metro regions and their pollution are exacerbating the ecological crisis. The city now "owns everything" and must answer for everything, "even the raging hurricane bearing down on its coast." The vast city has grown vaster still.

If there's one place I part ways with Lerup, it has to do with his insistence that "few conceptual tools have evolved" to help us grapple with the distributed city and its meanings. At least in the case of Los Angeles, the literature on this score is richer, going back many decades, than even many locals realize.

There's not only McWilliams' superb, clear-eyed book "Southern California: An Island on the Land," which I would make required reading for every new hire if I were running the Los Angeles bureau of the New York Times. (Especially the part where McWilliams admits that he hated Los Angeles when he arrived and that it took him "seven long years of exile" to understand and appreciate the city. Seven years! And that was with a brain bigger and more nimble than most.) There's also architect Charles Moore's 1984 guidebook, "City Observed: Los Angeles," which he wrote with Peter Becker and Regula Campbell.

Right at the beginning, Moore, as if to anticipate Lerup, reminds his readers that L.A. is "altogether different from the compact old centers of Manhattan and Boston." (It is not a discrete object sitting on a Tuscan hill.) Making sense of it, as a result, requires "an altogether different plan of attack."

That simple bit of advice is the only one journalists newly arrived in Los Angeles really need to get started on the right foot. It's also one those journalists have been ignoring for 34 years and counting."]]></description>
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    <title>Where is Gentrification Happening in Your City? | Data-Smart City Solutions</title>
    <dc:date>2017-06-06T04:45:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://datasmart.ash.harvard.edu/news/article/where-is-gentrification-happening-in-your-city-1055</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Gentrification—demographic and physical changes in neighborhoods that bring in wealthier residents, greater investment, and more development—has become a buzzword in urban planning.  As traditionally low-income neighborhoods across the U.S. gentrify, social justice advocates have become increasingly concerned about displacement, the dislocation of low-income residents due to prohibitive prices. As a result, policymakers and urban planners have begun to consider strategies to combat the byproducts of gentrification in recently-developed or developing neighborhoods, such as providing low-cost amenities and rent controlled or low-income housing.

The first step in addressing gentrification is understanding where it has happened and where it is likely to happen in the future. A number of cities have found mapping to be a powerful tool for observing gentrification trends, allowing them to intervene before low-income residents are seriously affected. Cities have created maps using data mostly from public sources both to better understand historical trends in gentrification and displacement and predict the next areas where low-income residents are likely to lose their homes. While each model is unique, all display methodologies that are applicable across cities. For a factor by factor overview of models in seven U.S. cities, see

Los Angeles i-Team’s Indices of Neighborhood Change and Displacement Pressure
…
Urban Displacement Project Los Angeles Map of Neighborhood Change
…
Portland’s Susceptibility to Gentrification Model
…
Seattle Displacement Risk Analysis
…
Boston’s Displacement-Risk Map
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Urban Displacement Project San Francisco Bay Area Displacement Risk Analysis
…
The Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development’s Displacement Alert Project Map
Limitations
…
Appendix: Comparison of Models"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Homelessness, unaffordable urban real estate, devastating gentrification, and the housing bubble are all rooted in privatized housing."

…

"More fundamentally, though, what we call private housing is actually public land that government has set aside for private purposes. Land, save the bits beneath one’s feet, can’t be “possessed,” as a phone or a shirt can. What a “land owner” possesses is a deed—a voucher one may redeem with the government to marshal violence (through policing) to exclude all competing claimants. The government established this location-exclusion program, designating pieces of nature as being solely for the use of the deed holders, and devoting its violent capabilities to enforcing that designation. In the 19th century, the government enacted homesteading laws to allow frontier settlers to claim indigenous lands as their own. If those deeds were challenged, the federal government sent troops to back them up. Or look at the 20th century, when the government funded highways and commuter transit—the Federal Housing Administration extended loan guarantees to new housing developments in order to create a massive suburban private-housing stock. The entire apparatus by which housing is privately “owned” is created by the government’s decisions to subsidize or protect certain interests.

Ostensibly, the government pursues the public interest, but treating real estate as privately owned wealth, as a financial asset, has devastating public effects. On a grand scale, treating land as an asset allows speculators to create bubbles large enough to threaten global economic collapse. The housing bubble—really a land bubble—of the last decade bid the price of land up so high, concocting such dangerous “complex financial instruments” to turn out so many sub-prime mortgages, that the burst was enough to sink some of the world’s most profitable firms, plunge us into the Great Recession, extinguish the majority of all black wealth in the United States, bankrupt pension funds worldwide, and destroy the governments of Greece, Iceland, and other nations.

Closer to home, private ownership of land underlies racist segregation. The aforementioned FHA policy, for instance, designed to protect homeowners’ access to gains in their houses’ location value, provided white people with the incentive to take their capital and flee urban centers for sprawling exurban developments, there to adopt racial exclusivity covenants, in order to prevent black people from moving in and undermining the location price—thus, the plot of A Raisin in the Sun. In the resulting “inner city,” which the public Home Owners’ Loan Corporation “red-lined” on its residential security maps, black people who were locked out of “middle-class” neighborhoods were conscripted to capital-starved, decaying ghettos, where parasitic slumlords reigned supreme.

Finally, developers have an incentive to snap up urban land and then leave it vacant until it appreciates in value, driven by community development around it, and then sell it. Meanwhile, residents have to live with the social repercussions of a community riddled with vacant lots.

What to do?

There are a few ways to turn land and housing stock toward the public good.

An exclusion fee …

Community land trusts … 

Public housing …

Gentrification, home-mortgage bubbles, homelessness, skyrocketing rent—these are not facts of nature. They are the outcomes of the policies that consign the basic human need of location to the whims of rent-obsessed landlords and chop-licking speculators looking for an easy flip. Private land policies are as evil today as they were almost 4 centuries ago when the Pilgrims near Bridgewater, Massachusetts, arrested Wampanoag people for hunting on a tract of land after the Pilgrims had “purchased” it. “What is this you call property?” the sachem, Massasoit, argued on that occasion. “It cannot be the earth, for the land is our Mother…. everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How then can one man say it belongs to him only?” There was no satisfactory retort then, and there isn’t one now."]]></description>
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    <title>ds4si [Design Studio for Social Intervention]</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-03T18:39:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ds4si.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We are an artistic research and development outfit for the improvement of civil society and everyday life. The Design Studio for Social Intervention (DS4SI) is dedicated to changing how social justice is imagined, developed and deployed here in the United States."

OUR WORK
Situated at the intersections of design thinking and practice, social justice and activism, public art and social practice and civic / popular engagement, we design and test social interventions with and on behalf of marginalized populations, controversies and ways of life.

OUR PEOPLE
The people behind the Design Studio for Social Intervention make up a constellation of activists, artists, academics, designers, dreamers, tricksters, organizations and foundations.

The Design Studio for Social Intervention (DS4SI) is dedicated to changing how social justice is imagined, developed and deployed here in the United States. Get in touch to inquire about art commissions, residencies or to hire us to run a creativity lab or other generative process for your organization, coalition or campaign."]]></description>
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    <title>Of Thee I Read: The United States in Literature - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-04T18:55:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/04/us/05natbooks.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Reporters and editors on the National Desk of The New York Times were asked to suggest books that a visitor ought to read to truly understand the American cities and regions where they live, work and travel.

There were no restrictions — novels, memoirs, histories and children’s books were fair game. Here are some selections.

Recommend a book that captures something special about where you live in the comments, or on Twitter with the hashtag #natbooks."]]></description>
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    <title>Home × Sosolimited</title>
    <dc:date>2016-05-13T06:02:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.sosolimited.com/#innovation-clock</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The studio was founded by Justin Manor, John Rothenberg, and Eric Gunther. The three met at MIT where they collectively studied physics, computer science, architecture, arts and music. Today, we have locations in Boston and San Diego, and continue to operate at the boundary of art, design, experience and information.

Our design studio is focused on the creative applications of new technologies. We help our partners and collaborators solve difficult technical problems with aesthetic flair. These projects have been recognized with awards from The Art Directors Club, Creative Review, and Cannes Lions, to name a few.

As an art practice, Sosolimited applies the language of data visualization and information design as an artistic medium, focusing on the live transformation of broadcast media. The studio has exhibited artwork internationally at festivals and museums including Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Walker Art Center, Cooper Hewitt, Shanghai Biennial, and the ICA Boston."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/mapping-bostons-soundscape/">
    <title>Mapping Boston’s soundscape – News – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health</title>
    <dc:date>2016-04-22T04:16:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/mapping-bostons-soundscape/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Erica Walker, SD ’17, biked around Boston to take the measure of a city’s noise and its effects on residents.

Hot coffee dripping. Steamed milk hissing. Muzak droning. Keyboards clacking. Patrons murmuring: Erica Walker’s soft voice was almost drowned out by the ambient noise in a Starbucks. It was an ironic touch, considering that Walker has spent the past five years intently tuned in to Boston’s cacophonous urban soundscape.

The 36-year-old researcher, who will receive her doctorate in environmental health next year from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has pedaled nearly every inch of the city on a purple commuter bike—hauling a bulky sound monitor, a boom microphone, and a camera in her backpack—all in the service of plotting sound levels in 400 separate locations and collecting residents’ subjective responses to the aural onslaught.

Most people have approached her with curiosity and, on learning her mission, gratitude. A few, alarmed by the paraphernalia of her sonic surveillance, have reported her to the police.

It’s all in a day’s research for Walker, a former artist who was compelled to undertake the study after suffering her own noise nightmare. The children living in the apartment above hers “ran across the floor literally 24 hours a day, and it drove me crazy,” says the Mississippi native. Plagued with headaches and sleeplessness, she sent out an impromptu Craigslist survey asking about annoying footstep sounds and was flooded with responses. She began to suspect her auditory torment was not isolated.

SIGNATURE SOUNDS

Walker has discovered that each Boston neighborhood carries a unique acoustic signature. The dominant note of Dorchester, for example, is transportation. “You have planes, you have trains, you have automobiles,” Walker says. But Dorchester’s rich cultural diversity also lends evocative countermelodies

to the main theme. “Something I hadn’t planned on is people standing outside and yelling across the street to each other, or sitting on their porches talking really loud—that human element,” Walker laughs. She wonders: “If people are part of that cultural landscape, is it ‘noise’ or just ‘sound’?”

By contrast, East Boston, which abuts Logan International Airport, is perpetually assaulted by the din of low-flying jets. In a community survey that Walker created, one resident called the commotion “a regular horror.” Another lamented, “Everybody is walking around looking wrung out, some are getting nasty, kids are crying more, kids with behavioral issues are out of control. People don’t know what to do.”

THE MISMEASURE OF NOISE

Most formal surveys of sound gauge what are known as “A- weighted decibel levels,” or dB(A)—sounds that are perceptible by the human ear. Boston’s noise ordinance defines “unreasonable or excessive noise” as that in excess of 50 dB(A) between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., or in excess of 70 dB(A) at other hours. To put this in context, normal human speech at about 3 feet apart takes place at between 55 and 65 dB(A).

Walker found that the city’s ordinance thresholds are rou- tinely flouted. Boston’s two loudest enclaves—East Boston, with the roar of jet engines, and Savin Hill, awash in jangling nightclub noise from across Marina Bay—average 80 dB(A). Passing ambulances clock in at 105 decibels. Construction site jackhammers reach 112. Even those neighborly conversations between porches can hit 85 decibels.

And these numbers don’t tell the whole story. Walker
is also measuring a type of low-frequency noise called “infrasound.” Although vibrations at this level are not picked up by the ear, our bodies still register them. “Infrasound is totally inaudible; we don’t hear it, we just feel it, such as when a bus passes by or a plane takes off,” Walker says.

In nature, low-frequency vibrations take the form of thunder, earthquakes, volcanoes, or nearby herds of wild animals. Such vibrations signal approaching danger—a clue to the toll they may take on mental and physical health in modern urban environments. “Maybe our body is processing these vibrations and we don’t know it,” Walker suggests. Making matters worse, infrasound is not only highly prevalent in cities but also persistent, hard to mitigate, and it travels long distances.

What Walker wants to know is: Are these low-frequency noises, which are rife in urban environments but not included in standard A-weighted decibel measurements, exacting a hidden public health toll?

NOISE AND HEALTH

To find out, Walker, along with her adviser, Francine Laden, MS ’93, SD ’98, professor of environmental epidemiology, will map audible and infrasound noise levels across Boston’s neighborhoods, using color gradients to denote areas of higher or lower average sound intensity. Walker will also catalog residents’ perceptions of noise levels, using the Greater Boston Neighborhood Noise Survey, an instrument she developed that is being translated into Spanish, Simple Chinese, Vietnamese, and Haitian Creole. The survey, Walkers says, “will put a human face on community noise.” Eventually, Walker will correlate soundscape metrics with data from established health studies conducted in Boston to learn if any type of noise is linked to cardiovascular and mental health outcomes.

Walker’s research takes place in the midst of a heated discussion about airplane noise—much of it low-frequency—in Greater Boston. In December 2015, U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch, who lives in South Boston, hosted a forum with Federal Aviation Administration officials, during which residents from across the region furiously recounted tales of babies constantly woken, rising asthma rates in families living beneath flight paths, and spouses sleeping in basements to escape the racket of Logan’s traffic. According to Lynch’s office, aircraft noise complaints in Greater Boston have worsened since the installation of a new GPS-based navigation system that directs planes on the most efficient route.

Francesca Dominici, professor of biostatistics at Harvard Chan, co-authored a 2013 study published in the British Medical Journal, which found that elderly individuals living on the noisiest flight paths near airports have a 3.5 percent increase in cardiovascular hospitalization for every 10-decibel increase in airport-related noise. She also found a strong association between noise exposure and cardiovascular hospitalizations in ZIP codes with noise exposures greater than 55 decibels.

For her part, Walker will be posting Boston sound maps and updates on her project’s progress at www.noiseandthecity.org. She has been biking Boston’s clamorous streets long enough to know that the most anguished complaints are about airplanes, construction, booming bass tones from car stereos, and barking dogs.

She can sympathize. “People don’t have a place to voice their noise issues,” Walker says. “They’re just kind of stuck here, suffering. And the city has no idea what’s bothering them.”"]]></description>
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    <title>Why the Economic Fates of America’s Cities Diverged - The Atlantic</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What accounts for these anomalous and unpredicted trends? The first explanation many people cite is the decline of the Rust Belt, and certainly that played a role."

…

"Another conventional explanation is that the decline of Heartland cities reflects the growing importance of high-end services and rarified consumption."

…

"Another explanation for the increase in regional inequality is that it reflects the growing demand for “innovation.” A prominent example of this line of thinking comes from the Berkeley economist Enrico Moretti, whose 2012 book, The New Geography of Jobs, explains the increase in regional inequality as the result of two new supposed mega-trends: markets offering far higher rewards to “innovation,” and innovative people increasingly needing and preferring each other’s company."

…

"What, then, is the missing piece? A major factor that has not received sufficient attention is the role of public policy. Throughout most of the country’s history, American government at all levels has pursued policies designed to preserve local control of businesses and to check the tendency of a few dominant cities to monopolize power over the rest of the country. These efforts moved to the federal level beginning in the late 19th century and reached a climax of enforcement in the 1960s and ’70s. Yet starting shortly thereafter, each of these policy levers were flipped, one after the other, in the opposite direction, usually in the guise of “deregulation.” Understanding this history, largely forgotten today, is essential to turning the problem of inequality around.

Starting with the country’s founding, government policy worked to ensure that specific towns, cities, and regions would not gain an unwarranted competitive advantage. The very structure of the U.S. Senate reflects a compromise among the Founders meant to balance the power of densely and sparsely populated states. Similarly, the Founders, understanding that private enterprise would not by itself provide broadly distributed postal service (because of the high cost of delivering mail to smaller towns and far-flung cities), wrote into the Constitution that a government monopoly would take on the challenge of providing the necessary cross-subsidization.

Throughout most of the 19th century and much of the 20th, generations of Americans similarly struggled with how to keep railroads from engaging in price discrimination against specific areas or otherwise favoring one town or region over another. Many states set up their own bureaucracies to regulate railroad fares—“to the end,” as the head of the Texas Railroad Commission put it, “that our producers, manufacturers, and merchants may be placed on an equal footing with their rivals in other states.” In 1887, the federal government took over the task of regulating railroad rates with the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Railroads came to be regulated much as telegraph, telephone, and power companies would be—as natural monopolies that were allowed to remain in private hands and earn a profit, but only if they did not engage in pricing or service patterns that would add significantly to the competitive advantage of some regions over others.

Passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890 was another watershed moment in the use of public policy to limit regional inequality. The antitrust movement that sprung up during the Populist and Progressive era was very much about checking regional concentrations of wealth and power. Across the Midwest, hard-pressed farmers formed the “Granger” movement and demanded protection from eastern monopolists controlling railroads, wholesale-grain distribution, and the country’s manufacturing base. The South in this era was also, in the words of the historian C. Vann Woodward, in a “revolt against the East” and its attempts to impose a “colonial economy.”"

…

"By the 1960s, antitrust enforcement grew to proportions never seen before, while at the same time the broad middle class grew and prospered, overall levels of inequality fell dramatically, and midsize metro areas across the South, the Midwest, and the West Coast achieved a standard of living that converged with that of America’s historically richest cites in the East. Of course, antitrust was not the only cause of the increase in regional equality, but it played a much larger role than most people realize today.

To get a flavor of how thoroughly the federal government managed competition throughout the economy in the 1960s, consider the case of Brown Shoe Co., Inc. v. United States, in which the Supreme Court blocked a merger that would have given a single distributor a mere 2 percent share of the national shoe market.

Writing for the majority, Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren explained that the Court was following a clear and long-established desire by Congress to keep many forms of business small and local: “We cannot fail to recognize Congress’ desire to promote competition through the protection of viable, small, locally owned business. Congress appreciated that occasional higher costs and prices might result from the maintenance of fragmented industries and markets. It resolved these competing considerations in favor of decentralization. We must give effect to that decision.”

In 1964, the historian and public intellectual Richard Hofstadter would observe that an “antitrust movement” no longer existed, but only because regulators were managing competition with such effectiveness that monopoly no longer appeared to be a realistic threat. “Today, anybody who knows anything about the conduct of American business,” Hofstadter observed, “knows that the managers of the large corporations do their business with one eye constantly cast over their shoulders at the antitrust division.”

In 1966, the Supreme Court blocked a merger of two supermarket chains in Los Angeles that, had they been allowed to combine, would have controlled just 7.5 percent of the local market. (Today, by contrast there are nearly 40 metro areas in the U.S where Walmart controls half or more of all grocery sales.) Writing for the majority, Justice Harry Blackmun noted the long opposition of Congress and the Court to business combinations that restrained competition “by driving out of business the small dealers and worthy men.”

During this era, other policy levers, large and small, were also pulled in the same direction—such as bank regulation, for example. Since the Great Recession, America has relearned the history of how New Deal legislation such as the Glass-Steagall Act served to contain the risks of financial contagion. Less well remembered is how New Deal-era and subsequent banking regulation long served to contain the growth of banks that were “too big to fail” by pushing power in the banking system out to the hinterland. Into the early 1990s, federal laws severely limited banks headquartered in one state from setting up branches in any other state. State and federal law fostered a dense web of small-scale community banks and locally operated thrifts and credit unions.

Meanwhile, bank mergers, along with mergers of all kinds, faced tough regulatory barriers that included close scrutiny of their effects on the social fabric and political economy of local communities. Lawmakers realized that levels of civic engagement and community trust tended to decline in towns that came under the control of outside ownership, and they resolved not to let that happen in their time.

In other realms, too, federal policy during the New Deal and for several decades afterward pushed strongly to spread regional equality. For example, New Deal programs such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Bonneville Power Administration, and the Rural Electrification Administration dramatically improved the infrastructure of the South and West. During and after World War II, federal spending on the military and the space program also tilted heavily in the Sunbelt’s favor.

The government’s role in regulating prices and levels of service in transportation was also a huge factor in promoting regional equality. In 1952, the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered a 10-percent reduction in railroad freight rates for southern shippers, a political decision that played a substantial role in enabling the South’s economic ascent after the war. The ICC and state governments also ordered railroads to run money-losing long-distance and commuter passenger trains to ensure that far-flung towns and villages remained connected to the national economy.

Into the 1970s, the ICC also closely regulated trucking routes and prices so they did not tilt in favor of any one region. Similarly, the Civil Aeronautics Board made sure that passengers flying to and from small and midsize cities paid roughly the same price per mile as those flying to and from the largest cities. It also required airlines to offer service to less populous areas even when such routes were unprofitable.

Meanwhile, massive public investments in the interstate-highway system and other arterial roads added enormously to regional equality. First, it vastly increased the connectivity of rural areas to major population centers. Second, it facilitated the growth of reasonably priced suburban housing around high-wage metro areas such as New York and Los Angeles, thus making it much more possible than it is now for working-class people to move to or remain in those areas.

Beginning in the late 1970s, however, nearly all the policy levers that had been used to push for greater regional income equality suddenly reversed direction. The first major changes came during Jimmy Carter’s administration. Fearful of inflation, and under the spell of policy entrepreneurs such as Alfred Kahn, Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act in 1978. This abolished the Civil Aeronautics Board, which had worked to offer rough regional parity in airfares and levels of service since 1938."

…

"Another turning point came in 1982, when President Ronald Reagan’s Justice Department adopted new guidelines for antitrust prosecutions. Largely informed by the work of Robert Bork, then a Yale law professor who had served as solicitor general under Richard Nixon, these guidelines explicitly ruled out any consideration of social cost, regional equity, or local control in deciding whether to block mergers or prosecute monopolies. Instead, the only criteria that could trigger antitrust enforcement would be either proven instances of collusion or combinations that would immediately bring higher prices to consumers.

This has led to the effective colonization of many once-great American cities, as the financial institutions and industrial companies that once were headquartered there have come under the control of distant corporations. Empirical studies have shown that when a city loses a major corporate headquarters in a merger, the replacement of locally based managers by “absentee” managers usually leads to lower levels of local corporate giving, civic engagement, employment, and investment, often setting in motion further regional decline. A Harvard Business School study that analyzed the community involvement of 180 companies in Boston, Cleveland, and Miami found that “[l]ocally headquartered companies do most for the community on every measure,” including having “the most active involvement by their leaders in prominent local civic and cultural organizations.”

According to another survey of the literature on how corporate consolidation affects the health of local communities, “local owners and managers … are more invested in the community personally and financially than ‘distant’ owners and managers.” In contrast, the literature survey finds, “branch firms are managed either by ‘outsiders’ with no local ties who are brought in for short-term assignments or by locals who have less ability to benefit the community because they lack sufficient autonomy or prestige or have less incentive because their professional advancement will require them to move.” The loss of social capital in many Heartland communities documented by Robert Putnam, George Packer, and many other observers is at least in part a consequence of the wave of corporate consolidations that occurred after the federal government largely abandoned traditional antitrust enforcement 30-some years ago.

Financial deregulation also contributed mightily to the growth of regional inequality. Prohibitions against interstate branching disappeared entirely by the 1990s. The first-order effect was that most midsize and even major cities saw most of their major banks bought up by larger banks headquartered somewhere else. Initially, the trend strengthened some regional-banking centers, such as Charlotte, North Carolina, even as it hollowed out local control of banking nearly everywhere else across America. But eventually, further financial deregulation, combined with enormous subsidies and bailouts for banks that had become “too big to fail,” led to the eclipse of even once strong regional money centers such as Philadelphia and St. Louis by a handful of elite cities such as New York and London, bringing the geography of modern finance full circle back to the patterns prevailing in the Gilded Age.

Meanwhile, dramatic changes in the treatment of what, in the 1980s, came to be known as “intellectual property,” combined with the general retreat from antitrust enforcement, had the effect of vastly concentrating the geographical distribution of power in the technology sector. At the start of the 1980s, federal policy remained so hostile to patent monopolies that it refused even to grant patents for software. But then came a series of Supreme Court decisions and acts of Congress that vastly expanded the scope of patents and the monopoly power granted to patent holders. In 1991, Bill Gates reflected on the change and noted in a memo to his executives at Microsoft that “[i]f people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.”

These changes caused the tech industry to become much more geographically concentrated than it otherwise would have been. They did so primarily by making the tech industry much less about engineering and much more about lawyering and deal making. In 2011, spending by Apple and Google on patent lawsuits and patent purchases exceeded their spending on research and development for the first time. Meanwhile, faced with growing barriers to entry created by patent monopolies and the consolidated power of giants like Apple and Google, the business model for most new start-ups became to sell themselves as quickly as possible to one of the tech industry’s entrenched incumbents.

For both of these reasons, success in this sector now increasingly requires being physically located where large concentrations of incumbents are seeking “innovation through acquisition,” and where there are supporting phalanxes of highly specialized legal and financial wheeler-dealers. Back in the 1970s, a young entrepreneur like Bill Gates was able to grow a new high-tech firm into a Fortune 500 company in his hometown of Seattle, which at the time was little better off than Detroit and Cleveland—a depopulating, worn-out manufacturing city, labeled by The Economist as “the city of despair”—are today.

Now, a young entrepreneur as smart and ambitious as the young Gates is most likely aiming to sell his company to a high-tech goliath—or will have to settle for doing so. Sure, high-tech entrepreneurs still emerge in the hinterland, and often start promising companies there. But to succeed they need to cash out, which means that they typically need to go where they’ll be in the deal flow of patent trading and mergers and acquisition, which means an already-established hub of high-tech “innovation” like Silicon Valley, or, ironically, today’s Seattle.

They may also need to maintain a Washington office, the better to protect and expand the policies that have allowed the concentration of wealth and power in a few imperial cities, including intellectual-property protections, minimal antitrust enforcement, and financial regulations that benefit behemoth banks. The spectacular rise in the affluence of the D.C. metro area since the 1970s belies the idea that “deregulation” has brought a triumph of open and competitive markets. Instead, it is the result of a boom in what libertarians in other contexts like to call “rent seeking,” or the enrichment of a few through the manipulation of government and the cornering of markets.

Inequality, an issue politicians talked about hesitantly, if at all, a decade ago, is now a central focus of candidates in both parties. The terms of the debate, however, are about individuals and classes: the elite versus the middle, the 1 percent versus the 99 percent. That’s fair enough. But the language currently used to describe inequality doesn’t capture the way it is manifesting geographically. Growing inequality between and among regions and metro areas is obvious. But it is almost completely absent from the current political conversation. This absence would have been unfathomable to earlier generations of Americans; for most of this country’s history, equalizing opportunity among different parts of the country was at the center of politics. The resulting policies led to the greatest mass prosperity in human history. Yet somehow, about 30 years ago, America forgot its own history."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2016-01-12T06:45:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.timdevin.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What's it all about, Tim? 

I believe that people can have a say in their communities and in the world at large. To do so, they need information, and they need to feel more connected. I try to support both of those needs. 

A lot of us feel that we don't have a say in our world, and that our ideas and opinions don't matter. But we do have a say. And we can make a difference. We just need the right tools. 

One of these tools is information. Another is community. I think these two are closely related. 

Information helps us make better decisions about the things we're already involved in, and it can inspire us to do more--by showing us what others have done in the past, or what needs to be done in the future. Information can also make us feel more connected with our world at large, and show us what we have in common with individuals around us. This leads to a sense of community. 

A sense of community is important because people who feel connected help each other out on an individual level, and band together to make their neighborhoods more livable on a grassroots level. They participate in the political process, and they take part in movements such as environmentalism and the push for social justice. If that's not enough, studies show that a sense of belonging just plain makes us happier people.

Through my independent projects, my work as a librarian, and my involvement in various community organizations, I try to spread information, and help foster a sense of community where I live. "]]></description>
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    <title>Learning at Le Lab</title>
    <dc:date>2016-01-07T04:04:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lelaboratoirecambridge.com/#!learning-le-lab/c9ad</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Learning @ Le Lab is just about everything we care about. If you do not learn when creating, or participating in the creative process, you've missed the point. Our emblematic program is The ArtScience Prize. This is a curricular program that rewards the passion and commitment of young people to develop and pursue dreams of a better world through art and design at frontiers of science. The ArtScience Prize has improved creativity skills of thousands of teens and university students over the last five years while spreading from the Boston Public Schools in 2009 to over 15 sites around the world from its origins in the “ideas that matter” course of Laboratoire founder David Edwards. With the opening of Lab Cambridge we are starting a whole new exciting era. For more information see www.artscienceprize.org."]]></description>
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    <title>The ArtScience Prize: Cloud Founation</title>
    <dc:date>2016-01-07T03:38:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[See also: http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-cloud-foundation-boston ]

"The Boston ArtScience Prize is a part of ArtScience Labs and is hosted by the Cloud Foundation. Our building is referred to as Cloud Place, or The Idea Translation Lab at Cloud Place.

The Mission

The Cloud Foundation aims to foster confidence and hope in urban teens through artistic creation and cross-cultural expression.

The History

From Science to Art: David and Aurélie Edwards created the Cloud Foundation in 1999 to provide opportunities for urban teens to create with passion across cultural boundaries, as they have since their own youths. Scientists, the Edwards’ chose to work through the arts, recognizing that very often, before ideas grow as science, they emerge as art the most natural language of youth. From 1999 to 2001 the Cloud Foundation provided grants to Boston-area nonprofits to support work arts programming for urban teens. From 2001 to 2004, the Cloud Foundation opened and established Cloud Place in Boston’s Copley Square as a venue for urban teens’ artistic development and expression. The Foundation continued in this era to provide grants to nonprofits throughout the city. From 2004 to 2009 the Cloud Foundation made Cloud Place the core of its cultural enrichment model.


Over these first ten years the Cloud Foundation, and its founders, pursued parallel activities in Paris, France, and at Harvard University. Each year urban teen artists traveled from Boston to Paris, and from Paris to Boston, where they explored the meaning of their art, and of their lives, across cultural boundaries. Urban teen artists also began working with university students and Harvard faculty to develop projects of greater and greater scope. These projects, like MuseTrek, often provided new and intriguing cross-cultural questions and barriers that became catalysts of learning and artistic expression.

From Art to Science: In 2007, with the opening of Le Laboratoire in Paris, France, and with the publication of David’s essay Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation (Harvard University Press 2008), David and Aurélie Edwards began to work with fellow Cloud Foundation board members Marti Wilson Taylor and Bob Carson to create a network of experimental idea development organizations, the international ArtScience Labs, through which opportunities for urban teens’ artistic creation and expression might grow even more beneficially across cultural boundaries. Integral to this reflection was the experience of the Idea Translation Lab at Harvard, created by David Edwards to accelerate student learning through idea creation and development, a process David calls “Idea Translation.” In 2009 the Idea Translation Lab at Harvard produced student ideas that led to new cultural exhibitions, new nonprofit organizations, and new companies, guided by the arts and reflecting ideas at the frontiers of science. The Idea Translation Lab now forms the core of The Laboratory at Harvard, which David Edwards opened in the University’s Northwest Building in November, 2009. With the launch of the ArtScience Prize in January 2009, the Cloud Foundation enters its second decade as a core partner of the ArtScience Lab, an international network of creative organizations which aims to expand access to the benefits of artistic creation and expression in Boston and other cities of the world.

The Idea Translation Lab
at Cloud Place

In its second decade, the Cloud Foundation now hosts the Idea Translation Lab at Cloud Place as an artistic learning and creation environment for Boston high school students, in support of the Boston ArtScience Prize. Through the Idea Translation Lab at Cloud Place participating Boston high school students work with professional artist mentors and teachers to develop their ideas within a curriculum that both reflects the practice of the Idea Translation Lab at Harvard and also is specially designed for urban teens, building on the Cloud Foundation’s last decade of rich experience in youth development and artistic creation."]]></description>
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    <title>Metafoundry 54: Nominative Determinism</title>
    <dc:date>2016-01-04T03:45:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://tinyletter.com/metafoundry/letters/metafoundry-54-nominative-determinism</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["EPICYCLES: 

[…]

Probably what I appreciate most about the holiday break is not commuting. When I started driving in suburban Boston, I almost immediately generated a working hypothesis about why dense urban areas tend to lean left politically and why suburban areas lean right (in my hometown of Toronto, there was a pronounced political divide between the city proper and the surrounding '905ers', named after the area code for the immediate suburbs). Living in a city teaches you that strangers can co-exist and even cooperate (like everyone standing aside to let subway passengers disembark, for example). But if you live in the suburbs, your primary interaction with strangers is almost certainly in your car, and cars are sociopathy machines: people do many things in cars (like cut into a line) that they would never do on foot. Driving in the suburbs sends the message that, given the opportunity, a significant fraction of people put their own interests first regardless of the effect on others, so it doesn't seem like a big step to deciding that you need political systems that do similarly to ensure that you don't lose out to the people around you. Whereas living in cities, especially ones with good public transit, make it clear that strangers can work together and that homophily is not a requirement for everyone to benefit from shared resources; hence, left-wing. Getting a few days' break from driving definitely helps me with that seasonal 'good will towards one and all' thing. [While we're into amateur theories of political sociology, I'm a fan of the zombie apocalypse vs utopian future [http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/04/a-thrivesurvive-theory-of-the-political-spectrum/ ] dichotomy.]

ON FRIENDSHIPS, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND HOUSING: Speaking of the suburbs, I was struck by this article [http://www.vox.com/2015/10/28/9622920/housing-adult-friendship ] on how American choices in land use affect their ability of adults to make and maintain friendships: the norms of single-family homes and driving mean that social interactions need to be deliberately scheduled (or, in many sad cases, not scheduled). The evidence is that there are two key requirements for friendships to form: repeated, spontaneous interactions, and an environment where people can confide in each other. There's been a lot of discussion in my circles recently about the modes and affordances of social media sites, and a quiet exodus from public Twitter to small private accounts, or to Slack, or to mailing lists, or to, yes, newsletters. For many of us, Twitter was--and remains--an excellent place for those repeated, spontaneous interactions. But it's shifted from the 'small world growth phase' [http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/File:SNSPrivacy.png ] to one where our experience is dominated by context collapse [http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca/index.php/Context_collapse_in_social_media ]. It's therefore no longer a safe environment for that second component of a nascent friendship, sharing with others, as the norms of civil inattention [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_inattention ] fail to keep pace with the site's phenomenal growth (This was most memorably demonstrated to me when a well-known author and speaker jumped into a conversation that a friend of mine and I were having about relationships to inform us--and the rest of his many followers--that 'women like bad boys'. Welp.) So this type of trust-building personal sharing is moving to more private fora. In my case, because I travel a fair bit, that includes the offline world. This use of Twitter and travel probably goes a long way to explaining why I'm an outlier in that, while I have a few good friends that I made in and kept from my teens and early twenties, I also have a number of very close friends that I've made in the last five years or so (the second major reason is likely because I do live in a dense urban walkshed where I run into friends spontaneously, in a city that draws out-of-town friends to visit). But I'm interested in seeing how people use different types of social media differently in the near future."]]></description>
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    <title>Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957 | icaboston.org</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-01T04:17:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/leap-you-look-black-mountain-college-1933%E2%80%931957</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A small, experimental liberal arts college founded in 1933, Black Mountain College (BMC) has exerted enormous influence on the postwar cultural life of the United States. Influenced by the utopian ideals of the progressive education movement, it placed the arts at the center of liberal arts education and believed that in doing so it could better educate citizens for participation in a democratic society. It was a dynamic crossroads for refugees from Europe and an emerging generation of American artists. Profoundly interdisciplinary, it offered equal attention to painting, weaving, sculpture, pottery, poetry, music, and dance.

ICA_BMC_perf_pro_download_350.jpgThe teachers and students at BMC came to North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains from around the United States and the world. Some stayed for years, others mere weeks. Their education was unlike anything else in the United States. They experimented with new ways of teaching and learning; they encouraged discussion and free inquiry; they felt that form in art had meaning; they were committed to the rigor of the studio and the laboratory; they practiced living and working together as a community; they shared the ideas and values of different cultures; they had faith in learning through experience and doing; they trusted in the new while remaining committed to ideas from the past; and they valued the idiosyncratic nature of the individual. But most of all, they believed in art, in its ability to expand one’s internal horizons, and in art as a way of living and being in the world. This utopian experiment came to an end in 1957, but not before it created the conditions for some of the 20th century’s most fertile ideas and most influential individual artists to emerge.
 
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957 focuses on how, despite its brief existence, BMC became a seminal meeting place for many of the artists, musicians, poets, and thinkers who would become the principal practitioners in their fields of the postwar period. Figures such as Anni and Josef Albers, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, Ruth Asawa, Robert Motherwell, Gwendolyn and Jacob Knight Lawrence, Charles Olson, and Robert Creeley, among many others, taught and studied at BMC. Teaching at the college combined the craft principles of Germany’s revolutionary Bauhaus school with interdisciplinary inquiry, discussion, and experimentation, forming the template for American art schools. While physically rooted in the rural South, BMC formed an unlikely cosmopolitan meeting place for American, European, Asian, and Latin American art, ideas, and individuals. The exhibition argues that BMC was as an important historical precedent for thinking about relationships between art, democracy, and globalism. It examines the college’s critical role in shaping many major concepts, movements, and forms in postwar art and education, including assemblage, modern dance and music, and the American studio craft movement—influence that can still be seen and felt today.
 
Organized by Helen Molesworth, the ICA’s former Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with ICA Assistant Curator Ruth Erickson, Leap Before You Look is the first comprehensive museum exhibition on the subject of Black Mountain College to take place in the United States. The exhibition features individual works by more than ninety artists, student work, archival materials, a soundscape, as well as a piano and a dance floor for performances, and it will be accompanied by robust performance and educational programs. It will premiere at the ICA/Boston and be on view October 10, 2015–January 24, 2016; it will then travel to the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (February 21–May 15, 2016) and the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio (Sept. 17, 2016–Jan. 1, 2017)."

[Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9URP8GgSg5M ]]]></description>
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    <title>Monster — The Message — Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-19T01:30:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/message/monster-f31ea73693ea</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Personal beliefs do not trump human rights. This is how we create and live together in a civil society."

…

"We taught him Humanities, and somehow, at least for one crucial moment, he lost his humanity.

Saying anything positive about a terrorist is impossible. You’re a sympathizer. You’re Hitler. You wanted people to die. You’re as repulsive as the person who committed the crime. How could you? But we aren’t born monsters. Dzhokhar is still all of the moments leading up to that monstrous one and many moments afterward. He’s a young man who destroyed lives. He’s a young man who lost his brother. He’s a young man who was once a child who went to school and was surrounded by people who cared. He’s a young man who used and betrayed his friends. He’s a young man who fell through the cracks. He’s a young man who is sentenced to death.

Humanity and inhumanity are actions. They are choices we make daily in our treatment of others and in how we respond to the way we are treated. In the jury’s forced choice, everyone walked to the same corner, and they have no option of changing their minds.

Calling Dzhokhar a monster dehumanizes him and is the only way to justify killing him. If he is not a person, we are not depriving him of personhood.

As adults in his life, we failed to show Dzhokhar that human life is precious. In sentencing him to death, we become monsters ourselves."]]></description>
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    <title>Why One Silicon Valley City Said “No” to Google – Next City</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-13T22:03:28+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Big money and even bigger egos are colliding in the tech world’s new company towns."

…

"In 2012, Mountain View and Google entered into a $222,000 annual contract for Google to pay for city planning staff to handle all the reviews needed to get Google’s projects off the drawing board and into construction phases. Today, that contract is valued at $377,838. While the city normally charges companies an hourly rate for municipal services, the vetting of Google projects required more hours than the city had available. Instead of rejecting the company’s plans outright for lack of staff, Mountain View asked Google to fund the hiring of two additional planners. It was an unusual arrangement, the kind usually reserved for corporate polluters that must pay for large-scale government cleanups.

The agreement to have Google subsidize public servants didn’t necessarily raise many local eyebrows. After all, like it had before, Google solved the problem it had created, albeit by playing a major role in government affairs.

But local will for such involvement appears to have waned. In rejecting the vast majority of Google’s campus expansion, the Mountain View city council also rejected most of the company’s $240 million community benefits package, from the bike lanes and affordable housing, to the $15 million public safety center and ecological restoration, all planned at Google’s behest and design.

The vast majority of the North Bayshore area was instead granted to LinkedIn, which offered far fewer community benefits, but had one major factor in its favor: It’s not Google.

The political climate for tech companies in the Bay Area is, to a great extent, confused. The Googles of the world are blamed for a sharp rise in the cost of living and an increased strain on public services and infrastructure, but at the same time, no one can deny the huge boost they’ve given local government coffers.

Still, there is a discrepancy between the billions of dollars these companies make and the checks they write to the local governments that host them.

The sales tax model that served California cities for decades doesn’t work in the knowledge economy. While Apple remits local tax on the products it sells, Google and Facebook don’t collect sales tax on the digital ads we click away and the data we unwittingly share. Community benefit deals can potentially bridge the gap between those taxes and impacts, but they allow companies to determine which civic projects should be priorities. Facebook might want more police and Google might want more local ecology — but what do residents want?

If cities want to take greater control of their future, they’ll have to create and enforce new tax revenue streams — something Mountain View council member Lenny Siegel says he is working toward.

Without a significant local tax burden, companies can afford to drive policies and services, superseding the role of local government and advancing their own ideology. When that ideology includes bike lanes and public school support, this arrangement might work well.

But in a region in the grips of a controversial housing crisis spurred in no small part by an influx of high-paid tech talent, Silicon Valley companies on the whole appear comparatively disinterested in funding the affordable homes these cities so desperately need."

…

"Big companies in small cities are bound to exert some of their own power, either purposefully or passively. Much of this seems inevitable — it’s how this valley was named “Silicon” decades ago. But these companies are no longer dealing just in silicon. Regardless of Google’s loss in North Bayshore, soon Mountain View will feature Google-designed cars running on Google-funded roads planned by Google-paid city engineers. Where they once built semiconductors and software, tech is shaping the future of human communication, infrastructure, transit, law and collective lived experience — all the things that make up a city."

[Related: “New Balance Bought Its Own Commuter Rail Station [in Boston]: Instead of asking the cash-strapped public-transit system to add a stop, the company simply paid for one itself.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/new-balance-bought-its-own-commuter-rail-station/392711/ ]]]></description>
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    <title>City as University, Museum, iLab – Boston Arts &amp; Culture Testimony | ZILLA617</title>
    <dc:date>2015-02-16T05:41:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://zillaboston.com/2014/01/31/city-as-university-museum-ilab-boston-arts-culture-testimony/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Hello, I am Maggie Cavallo and I am a curator and educator committed to contemporary art and artists in Boston. My first job after moving to Boston was at the Institute of Contemporary Art, I have also worked as the Curator of Education at Montserrat College of Art working with former Boston high school students who, as undergraduates, are our next generation of emerging artists, I am an employee of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and am currently enrolled in the Arts in Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

I want to start by saying that it is necessary that the teams responsible for making decisions that involve and affect the contemporary art community of Boston, have an acute understanding of how art operates in society. Further, it is necessary that these teams have an acute understanding of the history of arts and culture in Boston. There is a lot that can be learned in understanding the cultural development of the Brahmins, if only we take their tactics and turn them on their head. (Please see attached reading by Paul DiMaggio)

I want to stress that it is also necessary that that Mayor’s office be committed to risk-taking and experimentation when it comes to developing its new artistic identity. We should imagine Boston: A City of Art and Education, providing art education experiences outside of K-12 alone, focusing on developing art audiences across the board, nurturing the post-graduate trajectory of Boston’s college-level art students and providing resources for the creative community to develop its own infrastructure. The office should support social entrepreneurial ventures that will not only alleviate problems that arts community faces, but will enhance Boston’s regional, national and global identity as an innovative cultivator of art and education. We should imagine our city as a university, and the public as teachers, students and collaborators.

I would like to briefly share three examples of entrepreneurial ventures that are inspired by real problems within the contemporary art community in Boston, but are strategically designed to create opportunities outside of these issues as well. What I want to know is what type of resources will be available to social entrepreneurs such as myself to build our own projects, as well as collaborate with the city government on developing civic programming.

1. Art School 617: AS617 is an intensive arts immersion course designed for the Mayor and his cabinet that will take place in two hour sessions, once monthly, for twelve months. With a curriculum designed and facilitated by local arts leaders, AS617 identifies unique teaching and learning experiences in the arts, for the Mayor’s office, to increase the office’s ability to authentically support and collaborate with the contemporary art community. Sessions will range from onsite presentations, collaborative exercises and discussions, to off site trips to local cultural institutions and artist spaces.By investing two hours a month in learning about contemporary art and the contemporary art community of Boston, it is assured that the Mayor’s office will be able to identify unique avenues for synthesis and collaboration between these concepts and artists and the initiatives of our city government. Also, one can imagine the amount of press that the Mayor’s office would receive for celebrating a commitment to learning with and from the contemporary art community in this way.  (Please see attached slides for proposed lesson themes and an in-depth assessment plan).

2. Public Art as Public Art Experience/Learning: As a city, we should take an innovative and education-based approach to how we define and design public art. While the number and quality of public art pieces in Boston must increase if we want to be artistically relevant globally, we should reconceptualize public art as a model that includes public art programming. Events and learning experiences should be designed in tandem with temporary and permanent works of public art, a quality resource that would be of value to tourists, artists, and youth art programs a like. We should consider our city a Museum, and the public as curators, educators, artists and audiences. In order to do this, the city should consider an annual rotating curator program, inviting proposals from contemporary art curators both regional, and from elsewhere, to design exhibitions and strategic arts programming for the city’s public spaces.

3. Creating opportunities for success in social entrepreneurship. Imagine a program that brings together Masters-level Business & Entrepreneurship students from Harvard, Fine Arts students from MassArt and Art History majors from Boston University, with the task of designing and building sustainable art spaces in our city. We should consider our city as an Innovation Lab, and its thousands of college students the innovators. What resources can a city  provide to young social entrepreneurs that will encourage them to take risks and invest in building projects in Boston?Long-known for it’s limited gallery scene and scarce collector base, new Boston must prioritize building such a commercial foundation for the sake of a healthy contemporary art community.  Imagine the new spaces built by young entrepreneurs coupled with programming that introduces collecting contemporary art as a method of civic engagement to young professionals and “contemporary curious” philanthropists. A newfound collector base of contemporary art in Boston that was developed around strategic and authentic educational art experiences would have a significant affect on not only the lives of artists, but the economic and social realities of our city as a whole."

[video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nynqjPk_mY ]]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["2014, 4K CinemaScope, 5.1 surround sound, 23 minutes
Picture: Paweł Wojtasik, Toby Lee 
Sound: Ernst Karel

SINGLE STREAM explores a recycling facility in the Boston area, where hundreds of tons of refuse are sorted daily. Blurring the line between observation and abstraction, SINGLE STREAM plunges the viewer into the steady flow of the plant and the waste it treats, examining the material consequences of our society's culture of excess."

[See also:
https://twitter.com/single_stream
http://ek.klingt.org/currenthappenings.html ]]]></description>
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    <title>Going Home From the South, a New Holiday Exodus - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-25T22:48:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/25/upshot/going-home-from-the-south-a-new-holiday-exodus.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It wasn’t so long ago that the holiday exodus went in the other direction, and the reversal highlights a basic change in American culture. The Southeast has replaced California as the place where many people now go to find the American dream.

“You have the feeling that you perhaps might be a little more successful here than if you stayed in Southern California,” said Laura Voisin George, 52, an architectural historian in the Atlanta area. She is enough of a Californian to be planning to volunteer, again, at the Rose Parade in Pasadena this New Year’s Day – but not enough of one to live there anymore.

Since 1990, the share of residents of Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas who were born in California has roughly doubled, according to a New York Times analysis of census data. The number of Oregon, Washington and Colorado natives – as well as natives of Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York – in the Southeast has surged, too.

These migrants are crowding into airports this week, including Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, the world’s busiest airport. And when they are back in their old hometowns, many will end up singing the praises of their new ones, potentially recruiting new migrants in the process.

“I love California – I love California,” said Christoph Guttentag, a San Francisco Bay Area native and dean of undergraduate admissions at Duke University, where he has been since 1992. “But the prices are too high, and the commutes are too long.”

In 2012, 2.2 million – or 8 percent — of people who were born in California lived in one of the 16 states that the census defines as the South, according to the analysis. In 1990, the share was only 5.7 percent, and in 1960 it was 3 percent.

At the same time, the Southeast now sends fewer of its own natives to California and some other states.

“In the Depression and World War II, you had people leaving the South in very large numbers,” said Jeffrey Passel, a senior demographer at the Pew Research Center. “That’s reversed.”

The main reason is a version of what economists call arbitrage: Growing numbers of people have realized that many of life’s biggest costs — including housing, energy and taxes — are lower in the South, said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, which specializes in regional economic data.

House prices, for example, were already lower in the Southeast in the early 1990s than in much of California and the Northeast – and the gap has widened significantly since."

…

"Whatever the drawbacks, many of the Southern migrants say they are happy with their move. In particular, they say that places like Atlanta, Nashville and the Greenville area of South Carolina still have their original advantages – lower cost of living and slower pace of life – but have also become more cosmopolitan. The options for good food, music and art, among other things, have blossomed.

For better or worse, depending on your views, the migration patterns have also begun to change politics. The Democrats’ miserable showing in 2014 notwithstanding, the party now wins a substantial number of votes in Georgia and North Carolina – not to mention Florida and Virginia – from natives of the Northeast and the West.

Years ago, Mr. Guttentag was eating dinner back in California with friends, and they could not understand why he had chosen to make his life in North Carolina. To them, the South seemed “exotic and not well understood and slightly mistrusted,” he said. “Now, you talk to people and, they say, ‘Yeah, I know someone who moved there.'”

As an admissions officer, Mr. Guttentag has also participated in one of the causes of the trend: the nationalization of the college-admissions market. The number of high-school students at Duke from California has roughly doubled since the early 1990s, and other Southern colleges also attract more students from outside the region than in the past. A fair number of those students end up staying after graduation.

Over all, more than 40 percent of North Carolina residents in 2012 were born in another state; a generation ago, it was less than 25 percent. Similar increases have occurred in Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee. And the increases often have a self-sustaining nature to them.

James and Sarah Terry – who both teach at colleges in the Atlanta area and have two small children – miss much about their life out West. “You might have said we left Seattle kicking and screaming,” said Mr. Terry, in an interview from Napa, Calif., where the Terry family is for the holidays. She added, “We were just really sad to leave.”

Yet they were able to buy a house in Atlanta, and the weather lets them have a garden. They have no immediate plans to leave."]]></description>
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    <title>12 ideas for making Boston more inclusive - Magazine - The Boston Globe</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-11T15:12:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2014/12/03/ideas-for-making-boston-more-inclusive/mMHyMCTNbuwxSKRSosNsAM/story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["1) CREATE SPACES WHERE PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS CONVERGE … — Francie Latour

2) HELP SKILLED IMMIGRANTS GET RE-LICENSED … — Omar Sacirbey

3) BRING HIGH-TECH OPPORTUNITIES TO THE INNER CITY … — Michael Fitzgerald

4) GET HIGH SCHOOLERS TO CROSS CLIQUE LINES … — James H. Burnett III

5) ENSURE ACCESS TO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION … — Sarah Shemkus

6) NURTURE URBAN BUSINESSES … — Michael Fitzgerald

7) SPREAD THE HEALTH … — Priyanka Dayal McCluskey

8) BUILD MORE MIXED-INCOME HOUSING … — Jeremy C. Fox

9) PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF TRANSGENDER PEOPLE … — Jeremy C. Fox

10) CULTIVATE INCLUSION EXPERTS … — Nadia Colburn

11) CELEBRATE DIVERSITY THROUGH THEATER … — Cindy Atoji Keene

12) TEACH TOLERANCE TO CHILDREN — Sarah Shemkus"

[See also: "What are Boston’s biggest barriers to inclusion? Community and nonprofit leaders, academics, activists, and others discuss problems and priorities."
http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2014/12/03/what-are-boston-biggest-barriers-inclusion/0PnxFPYOYlqbAyQRGS4TRK/story.html

[via: https://twitter.com/anamarialeon/status/543045803393433600 ]]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2014-11-23T21:34:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ikatun.org/institute/infinitelysmallthings/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Institute for Infinitely Small Things conducts creative, participatory research that aims to temporarily transform public spaces and instigate dialogue about democracy, spatial justice and everyday life. The Institute’s projects use performance, conversation and unexpected interventions to investigate social and political “tiny things”. Based mostly in Boston, MA, and occasionally under the leadership of kanarinka, James Manning, Jaimes Mayhew, Forest Purnell or Nicole Siggins the group’s membership is varied and interdisciplinary."

[via: https://twitter.com/AlJavieera/status/536609502464704512 ]

[See also:
http://www.ikatun.com/kanarinka/
http://www.ikatun.org/ ]]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://log.scifihifi.com/post/103259670456/whenever-a-traveler-from-the-east-coast-announces">
    <title>Buzz Andersen — Whenever a traveler from the East Coast announces...</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-22T05:49:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://log.scifihifi.com/post/103259670456/whenever-a-traveler-from-the-east-coast-announces</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["“Whenever a traveler from the East Coast announces that he is making a trip to California, he is expected to express revulsion if his business trip takes him to the cultural cesspool of Los Angeles but to leap into paroxysms of ecstasy should his business to him to the shining city on the hill where little cable cars run halfway to the stars. (Should he announce that his business is taking him to San Diego, people will usually tell him to visit the zoo.)

We hold no brief for, nor have any ax to grind against, the burgeoning municipality of San Diego; it certainly has a nice zoo. Yet on the question of San Francisco vs. Los Angeles, we feel compelled to advance a minority view and admit that we generally like LA, while finding San Francisco, a quaint hamlet that has somehow confused itself with Byzantium, has long benefitted from an uninterrupted stream of booster-spawned propaganda that has hornswoggled the American public. Consequently they believe that what is basically a glorified Austin, a slightly less nippy Ann Arbor, a boho Vancouver, a New Hope writ large or a seismically suspect Charlottesville is actually a first-tier municipality, one that can take its place alongside such world-class North American cities as New York, Chicago, Boston, New Orleans, Montreal, and, of course, Los Angeles. Frankly we find this idea quite ludicrous. In our view, San Francisco is Quebec with more Chinese restaurants.”

—"Omnia California" - [Joe Queenan] Spy Magazine, February 1994 (via Jim Ray)

[http://goo.gl/vnm7Bp ]

I’ve been meaning to transcribe this from Google Books for awhile now because it’s hilarious and it pretty well nails how I feel about San Francisco’s pretensions (and about LA being pretty awesome)."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.lelaboratoirecambridge.com/">
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    <dc:date>2014-10-18T13:57:54+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Le Laboratoire Cambridge is a unique art and design center that invites visitors to explore the experiments and wonders of innovators of all kinds discovering at frontiers of science - from leading artists and designers to chefs and master perfumers. Founded in 2007 in Paris by renowned inventor, writer, and Harvard Professor David Edwards, Le Laboratoire now opens in Cambridge as the new center of ArtScience Labs, a global organization dedicated to the development of the most radical ideas that transform the way we learn, imagine and evolve. The design, and architecture, of Le Laboratoire Cambridge, is the work of French designer Mathieu Lehanneur and the American architects Zeke Brown and Josh Fenollosa."

[via: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/on-learning-by-doing/ ]

[previously:
https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a3d471d9f3f3
https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2efadd789363 ]]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.csw.org/page">
    <title>The Cambridge School of Weston | Boston-Area Private School</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-30T21:31:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.csw.org/page</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[member of: http://www.progressiveeducationlab.org/ ]]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://youarehere.cc/">
    <title>You Are Here</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-09T16:34:59+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["You Are Here is a study of place.

Every day for the next year, we will make a map of a city in which we have lived.

Each of these maps will be an aggregation of thousands of microstories, tracing the narratives of our collective experience. We will make maps of the little things that make up life — from the trees we hug, to the places where we crashed our bikes, to the benches where we fell in love.

Over time, we will grow this to 100 different maps of 100 different cities, creating an atlas of human experience.

We hope that by showing these stories, we empower people to make their city — and therefore the world — a more beautiful place.

You Are Here is a project of the Social Computing Group at the MIT Media Lab."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2014-01-13T06:02:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://publiclab.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (Public Lab) is a community -- supported by a 501(c)3 non-profit -- which develops and applies open-source tools to environmental exploration and investigation. By democratizing inexpensive and accessible Do-It-Yourself techniques, Public Lab creates a collaborative network of practitioners who actively re-imagine the human relationship with the environment.

The core Public Lab program is focused on "civic science" in which we research open source hardware and software tools and methods to generate knowledge and share data about community environmental health. Our goal is to increase the ability of underserved communities to identify, redress, remediate, and create awareness and accountability around environmental concerns. Public Lab achieves this by providing online and offline training, education and support, and by focusing on locally-relevant outcomes that emphasize human capacity and understanding."]]></description>
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<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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    <title>Home | A Year at Mission Hill</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-28T20:49:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ayearatmissionhill.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Ten videos. One year. A public school trying to help children learn and grow. The national conversation we need to be having."]]></description>
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    <title>ParkDayTom: Mission Hill - Jamaica Plain, MA</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-25T05:32:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://parkdaytom.blogspot.com/2013/03/mission-hill-jamaica-plain-ma.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Always deflecting the attention to teachers and students, Ayla holds a prodigious set of responsibilities, beyond the reach of most mere mortal school administrators. Since its founding in 1997, the school has been committed to directing its resources as directly as possible to the students, and consequently the layer of administrative support found in most public or private schools does not exist. Funding normally channelled to administration has been redirected for the purpose of hiring teachers and keeping class size as small as possible. Most of the classes I visited had 16 students."

"Ayla defines progressive education as the natural enhancement of that which humans bring to learning. Progressive educators consider all things about the child in developing around him or her a learning experience. In a progressive school, each child's individual experience is considered in the context of the whole; this does not mean that each learning experience is unique- indeed, schools create learning experiences for groups - however, each child is deeply understood as a learner and as a full human being."

"The mission of the school tethers all adults to the interests and well-being of the children; all decision and actions must flow from this covenant."

"Five "habits of mind" bring ballast to the curriculum and learning program at Mission Hill. Evidence (How do you know?): Conjecture (What if things were different?); Connections (What does it remind you of?); Relevance (Is it important? Why does it matter?); Viewpoint (What would someone else say? What would someone else feel?). These essential framing questions are prominent throughout the school and very alive in the classrooms. The teachers are scrupulous in their work to make these questions underpin the activities and lessons they construct with the students."

"True to form, Ayla's take on this question was unique - she'd not have it any other way. The relatively high number of male teachers and teachers of color at Mission Hill can be directly tied to the phenomenon of teacher autonomy at the school. Because each member of the Mission Hill faculty must assume a leadership role in the school, a top-down administrative structure would never work. Ayla relies on the teacher autonomy factor to bring a work ethic to the school that would not be possible if teachers were always seeking direction. That said, Ayla is quick to point out that autonomy comes with accountability and responsibility. To be sure, it is a teacher's privilege to have the autonomy to build his/her program, but it is also his/her responsibility to be accountable to the cohort of teachers and the mission of the school. A rogue teacher would stand out like a sore thumb and never be successful; the faculty is far too collaborative.

Misson Hill answers the question, "Can progressive education work for all children?" As an inclusion school, not only do the classrooms include children from disadvantaged backgrounds, they also include the widest range of learning and behavioral profiles."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We print and bind books on demand, creating original work with artists and writers we admire. We use any means possible to help writers and artists reach a public: physical books; a digital commons (where anyone can read and annotate our books for free); eBooks; and unique social events with our writers and artists in many cities. We attend to the social life of the book. Publication Studio is a laboratory for publication in its fullest sense—not just the production of books, but the production of a public. This public, which is more than a market, is created through physical production, digital circulation, and social gathering. Together these construct a space of conversation, a public space, which beckons a public into being.

Currently there are eight Publication Studios, in Portland (run by Patricia No and Antonia Pinter), the San Francisco Bay Area, CA (run by Ian Dolton-Thornton, with sage advice from Colter Jacobsen), Vancouver, BC, Canada (run by Keith Higgins and Kathy Slade), Toronto, Ontario, Canada (run by Derek McCormack, Alana Wilcox, and Michael Maranda), Boston (run by Sam Gould), Portland, Maine (run by Daniel Fuller and the Institute for Contemporary Art), Philadelphia (run by Robert Blackson and the Tyler School of Art), Los Angeles (run by Sergio Pastor, Matthew Schum, and Lizzie Fitch), and Malmö, Sweden, run by Ola Stahl. To contact one of the Publication Studios, click on its name on the home-page of this site."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Field Trip day is a series of explorations in six cities on Saturday, September 29th.

Find hidden places, and learn skills long forgotten. There are no right choices, no wrong turns - but there are wonders to be uncovered. Tickets are limited. Register below.

NEW YORK • SAN FRANCISCO • LOS ANGELES • CHICAGO • MINNEAPOLIS • BOSTON"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["sprout is a community education and research organization devoted to creating and supporting the community-driven learning, teaching, and investigation of science. We're united by a passion to reclaim science as a richly personal and creative craft. Through our PROGRAMS & STUDIOS, we're working to make our vision real in Somerville.

You might say we're working to create a community college that lives up to its name—not a college in a community or a school in a building, but a community of people who work together as colleagues to explore questions they care about."

[From the Studios page]

"Our studios are a bit unusual. Here you can find out WHERE they are, how you can use them as a COWORKING space, a community VENUE, a WORKSHOP AND LABSPACE for independent investigation, or WHATEVER ELSE you have in mind. And if you're interested, you can read about WHY we run our studios the way we do."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2012-09-02T21:00:32+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["General Assembly is a global network of campuses for individuals seeking opportunity and education in technology, business, and design."

"We offer a wide variety of learning opportunities, from 90-minute classes to long-form courses. With new options added daily, your only limit is scroll speed."

"A whole may be greater than the sum of its parts, but it's our parts that make us great. From members and instructors to knowledge-seekers and partners, our community defines what we are: collaborative learning advocates, forward-thinking envelope-pushers, and capri-pant enthusiasts.

We're excited to serve as a base for so many creative, innovative, and passionate thinkers and makers. Here are some of the Member Startups in our Community: [list]"]]></description>
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    <title>Los Angeles | Submitted For Your Perusal</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Los Angeles is the cutting edge of the culture, despite the claims and pretensions of San Francisco and New York and Boston and Washington. It has all the verve and dynamism that I found in New York when I went there in 1950. Verve and dynamism that New York has lost, that Chicago wanted and for which substituted brutality and angst, that New Orleans is afraid to let loose. For me, L.A. is like a big, gauche baby with a shotgun in its mouth. It’ll do anything. And with more style, with more fire, with more Errol Flynn go-to-hell vivacity than any other city I’ve ever experienced.”

—Harlan Ellison
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    <title>An Unfamiliar Revolution in Learning - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-10T17:27:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A9yor_4Qdo</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Take a look inside The Mission Hill School, a Boston public pilot school, where education focuses on the whole child rather than the test."

[via: https://twitter.com/jamestsanders/status/211840483314503680 ]
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    <dc:date>2012-02-07T09:52:49+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>:: NuVu studio</title>
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    <link>http://nuvustudio.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Students register for a specific studio such as “Balloon Mapping”, “Music and the City”, or “Future of Global Warming” of which there will be approximately 10 students, one Coach and an Assistant Coach. The Coach begins by providing a general overview of a problem to the students, an ambiguous real-world problem with potentially millions of answers. With the Coach’s help each student frames the problem from his/her perspective and enters into an iterative development process supported by the studio team of students & advisors.

Students are provided with access to outside resources – leading thinkers and experts – to whom they present their framework and receive feedback. Students document their process and progress, continually reviewing it with the Coach. They set parameters, synthesize, and continue refining, refining, refining. NuVu trains students to apply multiple perspectives to challenge and refine ideas over and over again until it becomes a natural way of learning."

[See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ZlJVHfiYg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmY2_Xlhpng and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4f4vb7GBIg&list=PL4D54C52BBC9A68D8 ]]]></description>
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We welcome historical images from collections of all sizes, from libraries and historical societies to individuals with a boxful of cool old photos."]]></description>
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    <title>Ascent Stage: Lessons from unmaking urban mistakes</title>
    <dc:date>2010-07-19T07:41:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ascentstage.com/archives/2010/07/lessons_from_un.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We've got more data about cities than we know what to do with. It's lying in archives, published on government websites, being sensed from instrumentation in the environment, deduced from aerial imagery, and built from the ground-up by citizens updating, tweeting, and texting a kind of pointillist painting of city life.

There's simply no reason that we can't design tools to bring city-dwellers into a closer relationship with information that can inform their choices. All the raw materials are there: data, visualization, analytics, and tools for socializing one's insight or commentary. This would not obviate the need for town hall meetings or public presentation of a city's plans, but it would equalize the power imbalance, bringing a Jacobsian emergent planning ethic to a suasive critical mass that can interact with top-down planning around a common set of facts."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://snarkmarket.com/2005/555">
    <title>The Places I Have Come to Fear the Most « Snarkmarket</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-04T18:27:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://snarkmarket.com/2005/555</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I have a reflex­ive dis­like of sub­urbs. I grew up in Orlando, in one of its sub­urbs stacked on sub­urbs, all in dis­tant orbit around a tiny cen­ter of faux-urbanity we called down­town. (Which in turn hov­ered in dis­tant orbit around a giant cen­ter of faux-reality we called Dis­ney World.)

Orlando feels hor­ri­bly life­less to me. I often say that in Orlando, you have to drive 20 min­utes to get to the con­ve­nience store. I can’t think of a sin­gle good Mom-&-Pop shop around where I grew up. When I go back to visit, there are no places where my friends and I can sit idly and chat until the wee hours. For a while, we seri­ously took to fre­quent­ing the lob­bies of the nicer hotels...How could any­one choose a sub­urb over a city? I ask myself. Cities engen­der cre­ativ­ity and comity & effi­ciency. The Renais­sance could never have taken place in a sub­ur­ban­ized Europe.

But I occa­sion­ally get jolted out of my city-worship when I encounter a bit of real­ity like..."
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://snarkmarket.com/2009/3871">
    <title>Race and the new urbanism « Snarkmarket</title>
    <dc:date>2009-10-27T06:37:48+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This is some­thing I think about a lot, not least because I’m an aspir­ing col­lege pro­fes­sor mar­ried to an urban plan­ning stu­dent who is also a black lady. Who doesn’t drive. And we have kids."

[references: http://www.newgeography.com/content/001110-the-white-city ]]]></description>
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    <title>These Things Are Related - Anil Dash</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["technology adoption happens now because of culture and media, not simply for its own sake or because certain types of capital are available. It happens because a vision is ambitious enough to capture the attention of artist and writers and creators of all sorts, not just other technologists or people within the bubble of the existing tech community. And cities like Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C. and, particularly, New York City, have a decided advantage when it comes to connecting to those in the tech community to the rest of the world. We also have an unparalleled history of ambition (and, yes, ego) to match that potential. I hope entrepreneurs learn a lesson from the few underwhelming startups that are out there, and realize that the model of making incremental improvements on companies that already exist is a recipe where, even if you achieve your goals, you may not have achieved much of a success."
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[... follows with discussion of possible swaps & top ten cities. I'm guessing Kottke will point to this/ask on his own blog, comments will get even more interesting.]]]></description>
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    <title>Infinite Jest Tour of Boston - a set on Flickr</title>
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