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  Crown of Thorns

  Jeremy Rosenberg | Mon, Jul 14th, 2008 | Category: Guests | City: Los Angeles | Tags: environment, building, los angeles, downtown, architecture, dubai, jeremy rosenberg, los angeles city hall | 1

  The tops of L.A.’s buildings are bland as a smogless sunset. But at least this design saves lives — right?

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  Neighborhoods as Brands: Imagining the Globalocal Future

  Brendan Crain | Thu, Mar 20th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: gentrification, internet, manhattan, advertising, dubai, brendan crain, lyons, glocalization | 1

  The French city of Lyons is being reproduced on the outskirts of Dubai, presumably for the value of Lyons’ “cultural cachet.” Can something as ephemeral and elusive as the “sense of place” of Lyons be copied and pasted onto a desert thousands of miles from the original?  Might it be possible that, in a world run by adults raised in virtual copies of real-world places refashioned, essentially, as brands, the wholesale reproduction of city neighborhoods could become commonplace around the world?

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• Headlines

  Microfinance in Queens, itinerant artists, Obamania in Milwaukee, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Thu, Feb 21st, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: hillary clinton, san francisco, barack obama, meredith aska mcbride, election 2008, primaries, las vegas, dubai, mike huckabee, jackson heights, sex offenders, itinerant artists, mohammad yunus, voting gap, subway | 0

  Voting gap divides the parties

  “In Tuesday’s election, 73% of those who went to the polls voted in the Democratic primary, to 27% on the GOP side—a huge difference in a state that in November 2004 was decided by about 11,400 votes."To be sure, the race between Obama and Hillary Clinton was more meaningful than the all-but-wrapped up Republican battle between McCain and Mike Huckabee. And that may have served as a magnet for independents and crossover voters.”

  Mohammad Yunus…

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  Dubai, city of excess, now has the world’s biggest phallus

  Jeffrey Hill | Mon, Feb 4th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: jeffrey hill, japan, dubai, middle east, tallest building, phallus, burj dubai, luxury apartment, sheikh mohammed bin rashid al maktoum, steve kroft | 1

  Welcome to Dubai!
  If you turn to your left, you’ll notice a 2000 ft. long penis sticking out of the desert. That would be the “Burj Dubai,”

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