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Politics

No Urban America Without Rural America

by Tommy Manuel

I live a dou­ble life.
Most recently that life has been spent amid a cacoph­ony of rum­bling trains on the ele­vated sub­way line out­side my win­dow, the din of car horns from the drive-through fast food restau­rant below my build­ing, shrieks from emer­gency vehi­cles, bangs and clashes from the con­struc­tion work on Columbia’s new cam­pus across the […]

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Housing Bias Persists, Fueled by the Internet (Gotham Gazette, August 31, 2009)

by Tommy Manuel

Hous­ing Bias Per­sists, Fueled by the Inter­net
by Jil­lian Jonas
August 31, 2009
Source: Gotham Gazette
It’s been some 40 years since the fed­eral Fair Hous­ing Act was passed allow­ing the Depart­ment of Jus­tice to pros­e­cute “pat­terns or prac­tices” of hous­ing dis­crim­i­na­tion” and 20 years since that act was amended to per­mit the depart­ment to act against municipalities […]

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God and Democracy four years after Hurricane Katrina.

by Tommy Manuel

Four years ago today at 10:00 AM CDT, Hur­ri­cane Kat­rina made her third and final land­fall near the Louisiana-Mississippi state line with 125 mph winds.
The Last Nail
by Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou
August 28, 2009
Source: Killing the Buddha

God and democ­racy failed in New Orleans. While reli­gious com­mu­ni­ties rushed to respond to Hur­ri­cane Kat­rina with char­i­ta­ble contributions […]

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The Space and Architecture of Israel-Palestine

by Tommy Manuel

Ethel Baraona Pohl posted this link to the image above with the ques­tion, “Is this archi­tec­ture?” Look­ing through other images on the site, I found the image below to be more illus­tra­tive of the archi­tec­ture, and par­tic­u­larly the space between Israel and Palestine.

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UPDATE: Sinclair on Tugboats, Tankers, and the Office for Social Innovation

by Tommy Manuel

The always reli­able Google News Alert deliv­ered a rel­e­vant arti­cle to my post above.  John Cooper, Ph.D., direc­tor of the Emer­gency Pre­pared­ness Demon­stra­tion at MDC Inc., a Chapel Hill-based non­profit, penned this arti­cle, Dis­as­ter Plan­ning at the Ground Level in North Carolina’s News & Observer this morn­ing.  Inter­est­ingly, a vic­tim of Hur­ri­cane Floyd noted in Cooper’s arti­cle that it […]

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Sinclair on Tugboats, Tankers, and the Office for Social Innovation

by Tommy Manuel

Cameron Sin­clair, co-founder of Archi­tec­ture for Human­ity and the Open Archi­tec­ture Net­work, has a great arti­cle on the Huff­in­g­ton Post today regard­ing the White House’s newly formed Office for Social Inno­va­tion and Civic Par­tic­i­pa­tion headed-up by Sonal Shah, who for­merly led global devel­op­ment efforts at Google.org.  “Part­ner­ships mat­ter a lot to us. It’s not just […]

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Prince Charles’ RIBA speech

by Tommy Manuel

The Architect’s Jour­nal posted Prince Charles’ speech to the RIBA. This is the lat­est devel­op­ment in the royal’s oppo­si­tion to Sir Rogers’ design for Chelsea Bar­racks. Reac­tions to the speech can be found here.
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