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Tag Archives: diversity
Living amid an “Ecology of Fear”
I recently read Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster by the late Mike Davis. It is an intriguing book that switches from whimsical to dark and foreboding at the turn of a page. In fact, the … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Africa, Animals, archaeology, art, Asia, book reviews, books, branding, business, Canada, Cars, cities, civics, Civil Rights, civility, climate, climate change, commerce, Communications, culture, demographics, density, diversity, economic development, economics, ecosystems, education, entertainment, entrepreneurship, environment, film, fun, futurism, geography, Geology, government, Guns, Handguns, health, highways, hiking, historic preservation, history, homelessness, Housing, human rights, humanity, immigration, inclusiveness, India, industry, infrastructure, injustice, land use, Latin America, literature, marketing, money, movies, music, natural history, nature, opinion, planning, politics, pollution, poverty, psychology, racism, reading, Religion, revitalization, schools, Science, Science fiction, Sexism, Small business, social equity, Social media, spatial design, Statistics, sustainability, technology, Television, theaters, topography, tourism, Trade, traffic, transportation, Travel, unemployment, urban design, urban planning, visual pollution, weather, Wilderness, Wildlife, Women, writing, zoning
Tagged authors, book reviews, books, California, culture, culture wars, diversity, dystopia, environment, extrapolative, fear, geography, history, hope, inclusivness, literature, Los Angeles, maps, Mike Davis, opinion, planning, safety, security, The Ecology of Fear, writing
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“Biogotsburg of the Week” – Gardendale, Alabama
This week’s golden middle finger award goes to Gardendale, Alabama, a suburb north of Birmingham. Gardendale is the kind of place where if you don’t like the racial compostion of the school district, you simply create your own. Way to … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Cities, civility, culture, diversity, education, humanity, inclusiveness, racism, social equity
Tagged bigotry, diversity, equality, racism
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Canaries in the climate change coal mine
I challenge any partisan climate change denier to travel to Alaska and tell the residents of the 31 communities shown on the map depicted above that climate change isn’t real. It’s easy to sit behind a microphone and blow steam … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, cities, civics, civility, climate change, Climate Change, culture, diversity, economics, environment, geography, health, humanity, land use, Maps, nature, planning, poverty, rivers/watersheds, Science, spatial design, Statistics, sustainability, topography, urban planning, weather
Tagged Alaska, climate change, diversity, environment, geography, global warming, land use, relocation
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Building a peaceful community with good planning
Building a peaceful community does not just result from how we treat one another (see previous post), but can be literally develop based on how we design our communities and allocate funding. The days of the “wrong side of the … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, adaptive reuse, Advocacy, airports, Alternative transportation, architecture, Bus transportation, Cars, cities, civics, civility, climate change, commerce, culture, diversity, economic development, environment, gentrification, geography, health, historic preservation, history, homelessness, Housing, humanity, inclusiveness, infrastructure, land use, Love, new urbanism, peace, placemaking, planning, pollution, poverty, rail, revitalization, social equity, spatial design, sprawl, sustainability, third places, traffic, transit, transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking, zoning
Tagged community, diversity, inclusiveness, love, peace, people
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Opting-out of mass transit = modern redlining
Currently, more than 50 communities in Southeast Michigan opt-out of participating in SMART (the regional transit system). Just yesterday, in a narrow 3-2 vote, Bloomfield Hills voted to continue opting out. Most often, the rationale for not participating is due … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, Advocacy, Bus transportation, Cars, cities, civics, civility, commerce, culture, diversity, economics, geography, government, history, homelessness, human rights, humanity, inclusiveness, infrastructure, placemaking, planning, politics, social equity, spatial design, sprawl, transit, transportation, unemployment
Tagged bus, diversity, inclusiveness, mass transit, opt-out, racism, redlining, SMART, transit
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Who will be today’s counterculture heroes?
We live in a very tumultuous world. Both similar to and different from the dangers faced by the Beat Generation at the dawn of the Cold War or by the Civil Rights and Anti-War movements of the 1960s. Activists of … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, ageism, art, books, civics, civility, Communications, culture, diversity, education, globalization, history, human rights, humanity, inclusiveness, internet, literature, Love, military, music, peace, politics, poverty, psychology, racism, Religion, Sexism, social equity, Social media, Women
Tagged activists, advocacy, counterculture, culture, diversity, humanity, literature, love, music, peace, politics, protests, truth, writing
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Equity is an economic growth engine!
Findings from the National Equity Atlas for ten (10) geographically dispersed mid-sized metropolitan regions are provided below. Check out the last column as it depicts how much more robust each of these regions would have been if there had been … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, ageism, business, cities, diversity, economic development, economic gardening, economics, Economy, fair trade, feminism, geography, government, history, humanity, inclusiveness, Labor, planning, poverty, social equity, Statistics, Women
Tagged cities, diversity, employment, gender equity, geography, income, National Equity Atlas, persons of color, planning, social equity, statistics, wage equity, wages, women
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Unofficial guide to the hipsterhoods of Dixie -UPDATED
As a continuation of this series on hipster neighborhoods in cities (see previous posts on the Rust Belt, Texas and the Great Plains, and Mountain West), below are those hipsterhoods which were identified in cities of the Southern states, including Alabama, … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, adaptive reuse, Alternative transportation, architecture, art, beer, bicycling, branding, brewpubs, cities, civics, Communications, culture, diversity, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, entrepreneurship, environment, Food, fun, geography, historic preservation, history, Housing, humanity, inclusiveness, infrastructure, land use, music, new urbanism, North America, peace, placemaking, planning, revitalization, social equity, spatial design, sustainability, third places, tourism, transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking, zoning
Tagged arts, cities, culture, districts, diversity, Dixie, fun, geography, hipsterhoods, hipsters, history, humanity, land use, neighborhoods, sociology, South
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Unofficial guide to hipsterhoods of the Mountain West
For this post, my definition of Mountain West includes the states of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. College towns that are largely hipster havens are listed without specific neighborhoods unless they have been identified during … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, architecture, art, beer, bicycling, Biking, branding, brewpubs, cities, coffee shops/cafes, colleges, commerce, Cuisine, culture, diversity, downtown, economic development, entertainment, entrepreneurship, Food, fun, geography, historic preservation, history, Housing, inclusiveness, infrastructure, land use, new urbanism, placemaking, planning, revitalization, Small business, social equity, sustainability, third places, tourism, transportation, Travel, urban planning, walking, zoning
Tagged cities, diversity, geography, hipsters, housing, land use, neighborhoods, planning, redevelopment, revitalization, urban planning
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Unofficial guide to hipsterhoods of Texas and the Great Plains
With the exception of Texas, much of the Great Plains is often overlooked by the national media when citing hipster-cool city neighborhoods and districts. Similar to the Rust Belt, what is actually considered Great Plains is somewhat fluid, depending on whom you ask. For … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, architecture, art, bicycling, branding, cities, Cuisine, culture, diversity, downtown, economic development, economic gardening, entertainment, entrepreneurship, geography, historic preservation, history, Housing, inclusiveness, infrastructure, land use, new urbanism, North America, placemaking, planning, revitalization, social equity, spatial design, sustainability, urban planning, walking, zoning
Tagged bohemian, cities, cool, culture, districts, diversity, entertainment, fun, Great Plains, hipsters, history, land use, lifestyles, neighborhoods, planning, redevelopment, revitalization, Texas, urban, urban planning
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