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Jul 26th, 2011 | Topic: Culture | Region: | Cities: |
In an age of global capitalism, urban life in Mexico City displays the unsettling contrasts inherent in North America post-NAFTA. Stark inequalities and sprawling landscapes of consumption are artifacts of an apparently unchangeable global economic system, like it or not. (
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Worldwatch | Feb 23rd, 2011 | Topic: Governance, Culture, Economy | Region: | Cities: |
Berkeley City and Regional Planning professor Ananya Roy traversed the world to find out what ideas unite and divide an eclectic anti-poverty movement, including Egypt, where grotesquely uneven development has now sparked an uprising. She found one common denominator: microfinance. (
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Worldwatch | Dec 27th, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: East Coast | Cities: Washington, D.C. |
Ananya Roy’s new book on microfinance,
Poverty Capital, gives portrait to a brave new world of high interest, high performance, high risk lending—a sort of poverty bubble where results are measured in upward profit arrows rather than downward maternal mortality rates. (
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Worldwatch | Nov 22nd, 2010 | Topic: Infrastructure, Governance, Economy | Region: Midwest | Cities: Detroit |
“Micro-entrepreneurship” and “right sizing” are catch phrases in the urban lexicon that ignore cities’ roles as sites of physical production. Places like Detroit would do well to generate knowledge sector employment but shouldn’t be abandoned as manufacturing centers. (
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Worldwatch | Oct 6th, 2010 | Topic: Economy, Built Environment | Region: East Coast | Cities: New York |
Recently Josh Leon spent time around two instructive pieces of vertical architecture that could presumably be competitors in a race between the U.S. and China for economic hegemony. One is the 1,614 foot Shanghai World Financial Center; the other is Manhattan’s 1,776-foot One World Trade Center. (
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Worldwatch | Jul 30th, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: | Cities: |
World Watch columnist Josh Leon spent part of his summer in Shanghai. Here, a slideshow of images from his trip and his musings on global Shanghai’s urban aesthetic. (
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Worldwatch | Jul 6th, 2010 | Topic: Built Environment | Region: | Cities: |
In his final dispatch from the World Expo in Shanghai, Josh Leon takes a look at the bold architectural offerings of Britain and China—and critiques the U.S.‘s “disinterested” effort. (
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Worldwatch | Jun 16th, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: | Cities: |
Josh Leon’s second blog post from the World Expo in Shanghai, in which he looks at the many different urban utopias on display. (
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Worldwatch | Jun 11th, 2010 | Topic: Governance, Culture | Region: | Cities: |
The first of several dispatches from Shanghai, where Josh Leon is taking in the World Expo. (
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Worldwatch | May 28th, 2010 | Topic: Governance, Culture, Built Environment | Region: | Cities: |
Olympics planning has long been a factor in accelerating anti-poor redevelopment schemes in host cities. The Beijing Games were a disaster in this regard. It’s early, but Rio could easily follow a comparable path. (
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In an age of global capitalism, urban life in Mexico City displays the unsettling contrasts inherent in North America post-NAFTA. Stark inequalities and sprawling landscapes of consumption are artifacts of an apparently unchangeable global economic system, like it or not. (keep reading…)
Berkeley City and Regional Planning professor Ananya Roy traversed the world to find out what ideas unite and divide an eclectic anti-poverty movement, including Egypt, where grotesquely uneven development has now sparked an uprising. She found one common denominator: microfinance. (keep reading…)
Ananya Roy’s new book on microfinance, Poverty Capital, gives portrait to a brave new world of high interest, high performance, high risk lending—a sort of poverty bubble where results are measured in upward profit arrows rather than downward maternal mortality rates. (keep reading…)
“Micro-entrepreneurship” and “right sizing” are catch phrases in the urban lexicon that ignore cities’ roles as sites of physical production. Places like Detroit would do well to generate knowledge sector employment but shouldn’t be abandoned as manufacturing centers. (keep reading…)
Recently Josh Leon spent time around two instructive pieces of vertical architecture that could presumably be competitors in a race between the U.S. and China for economic hegemony. One is the 1,614 foot Shanghai World Financial Center; the other is Manhattan’s 1,776-foot One World Trade Center. (keep reading…)
World Watch columnist Josh Leon spent part of his summer in Shanghai. Here, a slideshow of images from his trip and his musings on global Shanghai’s urban aesthetic. (keep reading…)
In his final dispatch from the World Expo in Shanghai, Josh Leon takes a look at the bold architectural offerings of Britain and China—and critiques the U.S.‘s “disinterested” effort. (keep reading…)
Josh Leon’s second blog post from the World Expo in Shanghai, in which he looks at the many different urban utopias on display. (keep reading…)
The first of several dispatches from Shanghai, where Josh Leon is taking in the World Expo. (keep reading…)
Olympics planning has long been a factor in accelerating anti-poor redevelopment schemes in host cities. The Beijing Games were a disaster in this regard. It’s early, but Rio could easily follow a comparable path. (keep reading…)
