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• Headlines

  Martin Luther King Remembered, Public-Housing Not Remembered, New Orleans Economic Immunity, More

  Jeffrey Hill | Fri, Apr 4th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: environment, hillary clinton, news, obama, barack obama, headlines, clinton, infrastructure, foreclosure, architecture, green, homeless, mortgage, boston, architects, foreclosures, katrina, beijing, japan, janet speyrer, oakland, bronx, new york mets, dr. janet speyrer, kyoto, new york yankees, boston red sox, martin luther king jr. | 0

  America evaluates change since Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, democratic presidential candidates still ignoring key city issues, economist Janet Speyrer offers insight on how recession may or may not impact New Orleans, Kyoto passes new accord and more in today’s headlines.

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• The Daily Report

  Is Global Warming Real? The Earth Armwrestles Itself

  Jeffrey Hill | Tue, Mar 18th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: jeffrey hill, environment, news, japan, editorial, canada, global warming, weather channel, news facts | 0

  Check out the variety of press global warming is getting these days… Jeffrey Hill reports on the Baskin Robbins of global warming reporting.

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• The Daily Report

  Gender-only is not the same as gender equality

  Hayley Richardson | Wed, Feb 13th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: hayley richardson, new york city, japan, buses, gender, equality, mexico city, public transit, seoul, mexico | 1

  Monday, the Times reported that a new “women only” bus line has recently begun running in Mexico City. With enormous pink signs proclaiming “exclusivo damas!” they cater to the thousands of women who’ve been victims of sexual harassment on D.F’s overcrowded public transportation system. The buses run less frequently, but they offer a respite from the probing hands and eyes of fellow male travelers.

  As this video demonstrates, most women applaud the arrival of the buses, and see this as…

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• The Daily Report

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

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

  Sound Construction: Listening to the Music of our Natural Space

  Jeffrey Hill | Sat, Dec 22nd, 2007 | Category: Report | Tags: jeffrey hill, japan, music, sound construction, lynde wismer, music of natural space, the sonic bed, melody road | 0

  Alfred Lord Tennyson once wrote: “The city is built to music, therefore never built at all, and therefore built forever.” Some of the world’s builders, architects, and engineers are focusing on a new dimension of aesthetic quality: the way our environments sound. Our sense of hearing has a lot to do with our physical and emotional health. Music often serves as our therapy—and not just the songs in our mp3 players, but the music of our natural space. The following are examples of design…

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