Hanif Kureishi profile in NYTimes: “My Beautiful London”

August 9, 2008

I found this observation really compelling: France, as well as the rest of Europe, is “going through a huge crisis about identity, race, religion,” Kureishi went on to say. “Their identities have been shattered by immigration. That’s the price you pay. If you want a modern economy, you have hundreds of thousands of workers around […]

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Diigo Bookmarks 08/09/2008 (p.m.)

August 9, 2008

CityStates: Commentary on an Urban World: Kalokairi Calling: Mama Mia! and ‘Redesigning the American Dream’ Michael Dudley, who only the other day came out with a brilliant analysis of The Dark Knight, now looks at Mama Mia! across a range of feminist texts as well as some urbanist readings. Fascinating stuff, a must-read… tags: michael_dudley, […]

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Diigo Bookmarks 08/09/2008 (a.m.)

August 8, 2008

PDF: The Entrepreneurial Advantage of World Cities 31-page PDF (still to read), “The Entrepreneurial Advantage of World Cities,” subtitled “Evidence from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Data.” From the abstract: QUOTE Recent discussions in the Economic Geography literature increasingly focus on creative cities and the importance of creativity for achieving economic growth. Considering the increased attention on […]

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Diigo Bookmarks 08/07/2008 (a.m.)

August 6, 2008

Be Nice to the ‘Creative Class’! :: Views :: thetyee.ca Why does one too often get the impression that publications like The Tyee are fighting a rear-guard and even anachronistic battle? That somehow, somewhere different patterns are emerging, which its journalists just don’t see, preferring instead the familiar world of what they knew “back in […]

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Diigo Bookmarks 08/05/2008 (p.m.)

August 5, 2008

Technology Review: 3-D Printing for the Masses From p.2 of this article: QUOTE “Ultimately, I think people will have these [3-D rapid prototyping] printers at home,” says Lipson. The idea is that people will pay a nominal amount for blueprints and then download them, in much the same way that music is shared over the […]

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Diigo Bookmarks 08/05/2008 (a.m.)

August 4, 2008

Protein® Feed | Could Globalization Be Going In Reverse? – Annotated “The world is flat” or “the world is spiky” or …”the world is complex,” maybe? At any rate, this article questions the idea that outsourcing will continue to continue, spreading outward in some sort of new and flattened topography (akin to a downward spiral […]

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Canadian cities: stuck in the past?

August 2, 2008

Christopher Hume takes aim at sclerotic Toronto, but his critique could apply to quite a few Canadian cities, including (much-smaller) Victoria.  See his Aug. 1 Toronto Star article, The future out of reach for city fearful of change. Toward the end, he writes: City hall’s resistance to change has been noticed by many observers who […]

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Diigo Bookmarks 08/01/2008 (p.m.)

August 1, 2008

Emotional Architecture – Using Psychological Profiles to Design Houses – NYTimes.com At some level — perhaps because this article is about residential architecture in what looks to my eyes like an 80s “Dallas” (TV show) model (i.e., very expensive custom McMansions — emphasis on “custom” and “expensive”) — the article gives me a “yuck” reflex. […]

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Immigrants to Canada shifting to smaller cities?

August 1, 2008

Two articles in the Vancouver Sun, published a day apart, repeat a finding by Citizenship and Immigration Canada that immigrants are choosing small to mid-sized cities over the big 4 (or 5) in Canada: Smaller cities benefit from the latest immigration boom, by Shannon Proudfoot (Friday, July 25, 2008) and Shifting economy leads to a […]

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Fake makes Hunch real

July 31, 2008

Over on Twitter, Jemima Kiss pointed to her Guardian post about Caterina Fake’s blog announcement that she’ll be joining New York-based Hunch as Chief Product Officer.  Cool — and good on her! What’s interesting, for everyone who has been wondering whether a move away from the Bay Area is in the cards for Caterina and […]

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