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  Dark Sky to City Dwellers: Get Lost

  Diana Lind | Mon, Aug 11th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, diana lind, university of pennsylvania, perseids, clark park, astronomy, brandywine state park | 3

  Tonight’s the peak of the Perseid’s meteor shower, but I can’t watch it from my backyard in Philly. Let’s lament together the city’s lack of access to nighttime nature.

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  Greetings From an Awesome Future: BLDGBLOG’s Geoff Manaugh Comes to Philadelphia

  Hayley Richardson | Tue, Mar 25th, 2008 | Category: Reviews | Tags: detroit, university of pennsylvania, landscape futures, bldgblog book, camilo vergara, sarejevo, jg ballard, bldgblog, ben franklin parkway, walkable cities, jean baudrillard, geoff manaugh | 0

  Geoff Manaugh, the puppeteer behind the much-loved BLDGBLOG and purveyor of all things speculative, spoke Friday at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design. He regaled the crowd with tales from the landscape future, in a lecture that was akin to a mad dash through the head of a child who’s interested in everything, and won’t be deterred by practical constraints.

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  Noisy Vietnam, ousted in India, the elusive dream, Penn’s Island, More…

  Hayley Richardson | Wed, Dec 19th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: commentary, hayley richardson, headlines, university of pennsylvania, secondlife, american dream, noisy vietnam, public health | 0

  Noise Pollution Plagues Ho Chi Minh City

  Stepping outside most international airports brings you from a world of relative calm into your first direct encounter with a foreign environment. In the developed world, the main difference between the surreal quiet inside the arrivals area and outside on the city’s streets tends to be climatic or architectural. However, leaving Tan Son Nhat Airport, the unseasoned visitor soon learns of one of Ho Chi Minh City’s most inhospitable features –…

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  A toast to immigrants

  Hayley Richardson | Mon, Oct 15th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: hayley richardson, crime, university of pennsylvania, el salvador, magical urbanism, lawrence sherman, mike davis | 0

  Over the weekend, I went home with the latest issue of The Next American City, which featured a special report on crime in the United States.

  There are myriad theories as to why some cities in the United States are experiencing a resurgence in crime; the availability of firearms, stagnating wage rates, money diverted from urban projects to anti-terrorism measures, just to name a few. However, the last theory proposed in the article stuck out to me, especially while I’ve found myself…

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