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Neoliberalism and the City

In audio, development, economics, podcast, politics, video on 27 November 2006 with no comments

If you’ve got 90 minutes, listen in (or watch, if you have enough hard drive space) to David Harvey’s keynote lecture:
podcast mp3 (audio), mp4 (video)
Internationally recognized urban geographer and social theorist David Harvey delivers a keynote lecture at the Middlebury College Symposium, “Urban Landscapes: The Politics of Expression.”
from the University Channel
Has anyone found other […]

Moscow Skyline

In architecture, development on 28 September 2006 with 1 comment

Slideshow
 
A slew of new structures—including Europe’s tallest building—are sprouting up around the Kremlin to form a modern backdrop in Russia’s capital
from digg.com

Making Globalization Work

In development, economics, video on 22 September 2006 with 1 comment

Streaming real video (real video)
Lee C. Bollinger, Tina Rosenberg, Nancy Birdsall, George Soros, and Joseph E. Stiglitz discuss solutions for some of the world’s most pressing problems, such as debt, unfair trade, the “resource curse”, the need to curb harmful emissions and world poverty

Lee C. Bollinger, President, Columbia University (Host)
Tina Rosenberg, Editorial Writer, […]

BBC Documentary Archive: The Communications Revolution

In audio, culture, development, education, podcast, science, technology, telecommunications on 13 September 2006 with no comments

Since downloading the new iTunes 7 update, I’ve started browsing through the podcast directory. I stumbled across the BBC’s documentary (4-part podcast) from August, titled “The Communications Revolution:”
Part 1: Communications: Transformation of business and leisure, and the structure of family and society? (mp3)
Part 2: […]

China’s booming car culture

In culture, development on 18 August 2006 with no comments

The figures behind China’s car boom are stunning. Total miles of highway in the country: at least 23,000, more than double what existed in 2001, and second now only to the United States. Number of passenger cars on the road: about 6 million in 2000 and about 20 million today. Car sales are up 54 […]

Making Cities Work

In audio, development, economics, podcast on 13 August 2006 with no comments

The BBC offers a special three part audio series on urban development.
It is projected that in the next 50 years two thirds of humanity will live in cities. Architecture critic Dejan Sudjic presents a four part series which looks at cutting edge solutions for transport and housing as well as ways of making cities […]

BBC NEWS | Urbanisation

In development, visualization on 17 June 2006 with no comments

Using the Gall-Peters projection, BBC news presents an interactive world map highlighting the rising urban populations from 1955-2015.
BBC NEWS | | Urbanisation