Sunday Night Poem: The Street by Hellman Pardo

By On December 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Photo I took of a busy street with speeding traffic and few pedestrian protections, two blocks from where I was born. Carrera 13 y Plaza Lourdes, Chapinero, Bogotá.

 

The Street

 

Without saying anything you speak to me.
You say, for example:
– I’m made of rock and and make [...]

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Digital Placemaking at Project for Public Spaces

By On October 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment

In the past 14 months at Project for Public Spaces I’ve started up a Digital Placemaking practice, you can read my into post there to find out more on how I’m bringing Cultural Studies, Media Ecology, Open Government, and Agile approaches into Placemaking. We’ve done 5 projects in this time and [...]

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Radical Urbanism & Right to the City voices from 2008

By 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 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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