By Timothy Egan | The New York Times | February 12, 2010
LATHROP, Calif. — Drive along foreclosure alley, through new planned communities that look like tile-roofed versions of a 21st century ghost town, and you see what happens when people gamble with houses instead of casino chips.
Dirty flags advertise rock-bottom discounts on empty starter mansions. [...]
Feb
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2010
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Slumburbia
Feb
9
2010
9
2010
Cisco’s Big Bet on New Songdo: Creating Cities From Scratch
By Greg Lindsay | FAST COMPANY | February 1, 2010
The world is bracing for an influx of billions of new urbanites in the coming decades, and tech companies are rushing to build new green cities to house them. Are these companies creating a smarter metropolis — or just making money?
Stan Gale is exultant. The chairman [...]
Jan
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2010
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Way out front: Changing lawns to gardens to save the world
Los Angeles architect Fritz Haeg looks to change the world by changing our notions about landscaping
by John Bentley Mays | The Globe And Mail | January 22, 2010
For millions of Americans and Canadians, the front lawn is a sacred place. It symbolizes home ownership quite as forcefully as the house itself does. Kept vividly green and [...]
Jan
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2010
15
2010
Meet Your Makers
From EduPunks to food jewelers, people are using new tools to take learning, art, entertainment, technology, politics, and even science into their own hands. Behold the growing Maker Movement.
By Pia Bahile, Curtis File and Kevin Young | TheTyee.ca | Today (as good as any day)
[Editor's note: The Tyee is proud to co-publish with Rabble.ca a multi-part, multi-media investigation of [...]