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City Making in Paradise – the audio

Just added to the SFU City Program website are recent audio-recorded lectures and movies including:…
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Beached Tanker

This is Newcastle, Australia, where the weather is still too unstable to pull this grounded…
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David Byrne Finds Freedom in New York

David Byrne, lead singer of Talking Heads, has been riding a bike in New York City…
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Hedonics in Bogota

Hendonics is  the economics of happiness.  Bogota is in Colombia, the Mayor used to be…
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O'Toole, the Fool

Not my headline – it’s the one in 24 Hours, where Ian King nails it…
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Surrey? The Second Great City?

Well, I think so. The Second Great City: Why what Happens South of the Fraser…
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Getting Goosed

Margaret Mahan – the new Executive Director of BEST – and I were just discussing…
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Back to the Sixties

The Project Manager for PM2, Gary Dawson, noted at a recent meeting that the widening…
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Ridgemont Typologies

Photographer Mark Luthringer captures the suburban American Dream here.…
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Gordon Campbell Gets Religion

The Sun reported on the Premier’s speech to the Board of Trade conference “A Climate…
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Creative Bankruptcy

Toronto has a Roundhouse, too – like the one Vancouver uses for its arts-based community…
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US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs

Check out Texas. From Governing Magazine, who asks: “But we still can’t properly fund education?”…

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