December 2011
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“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have...”
– Alice Walker (via black-culture)
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“The city multiplies man’s power to think, to remember, to educate, to...”
– Lewis Mumford (via panmesa)
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“…a lot of the new ideas seeping into cities are aimed not at making them faster,...”
– (via plantedcity)
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Are Small Rust Belt Cities the Future of Green? →
Journalist and historian Catherine Tumber thinks smaller industrial cities, like Syracuse, New York, Flint, Michigan, and Muncie, Indiana, need serious attention and—”don’t laugh,” she writes—could be instrumental in moving us toward an economically dynamic, low-carbon future.
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I Want To Write
a series of profiles on Phx as seen through the eyes of various subcultures. I think the beauty of a city is that it’s a million stories all at once. Protagonists rubbing shoulders and elbows and exchanging glances everywhere you look. Coffee culture might be where I start. Or the tent city of homeless not more than a mile from where I work. Any other suggestions?
