Great collection of videos from an interview with Sharon Zukin, sociologist at Brooklyn College. I particularly like her points about the necessity of diversity to form neighborhoods and cities.
Keep Reading » 3Overheard at the DMV the other day as I was registering my car: (and yes, I understand the irony/ hypocrisy here) I asked the woman behind the counter if she knew where I could get a Victorian Village parking permit (for the streets around my neighborhood) and she scoffed that she lived way out in [...]
Keep Reading » 0I am sitting in an Internet cafe in Morretes, Parana which for those keeping score at home is a crazy three hour train ride (through some seemingly impassable spaces) from Curitiba.  Since I last wrote, we returned to Joao Pessoa, took a bus to Recife. Were thinking of staying in Recife to see the [...]
Keep Reading » 0I saw a Brazilian (one l?) wearing this shirt the other day, which is both awesome and brilliant. I’m pretty much over my sickness now, but my day is still broken up in weird chunks thanks to a terrible mattress, sunset at 5:30 pm and no real structure to my life. There is this Mike [...]
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