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Smart Cities Or Wise Cities?

By danlatorre On April 9, 2012 · 2 Comments

Smart cities, smart politicians, smart leaders, smart writers, smart journalists, smart policy makers, smart planners, smart consultants, smart authors, smart… people.

When most people use the word “smart” in civic life they are really saying some person: has technocratic or corporate efficiency, or has skillful rhetoric regardless of logic or ethics, or has an exemplary [...]

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Living Within The American Lie, On The Passing of Vaclav Havel

By danlatorre On December 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

“In highly simplified terms, it could be said that the post-totalitarian system has been built on foundations laid by the historical encounter between dictatorship and the consumer society. Is it not true that the far-reaching adaptability to living a lie and the effortless spread of social auto-totality have some connection with the [...]

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Radical Urbanism & Right to the City voices from 2008

By danlatorre On October 5, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I’m interested in the connections between Urbanism and the public space occupation movements that have come to prominence in 2011 amidst the environment of our new Media Ecology that’s infused with fast flowing ICT networks.

This post and my last three posts mark a little exploration into these threads.

Below I’m just sharing [...]

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World Charter for the Right to the City

By danlatorre On October 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment

(Liberated into HTML from one of the many PDFs of this document, this text in particular was found at UrbanReinventors.net on October 2, 2011. See wikipedia for more on the idea of the Right to the City. I posted this after mulling over the Declaration of the Occupation of New York City [...]

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