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Recently Purchased Books August 1, 2013
Amish family riding in a traditional Amish buggy in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The Great Inversion and The Future of The American City by Alan Ehrenhalt I am...
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Quote About Revolution From Jack Dorsey
“What we want to bring into the world is revolution. Revolution has values. Revolution has purpose. Revolution has direction. Revolution has leaders….What I encourage you to do today is to pick a...
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Recently Purchased: The Metropolitan Revolution
book cover (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I have been intrigued by the science of cities as proposed by Geoffrey West and Luis Bettencourt of the Santa Fe Institute. I have begun to read books such as...
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Books Of Interest September 9, 2013
Autumn in New York (Photo credit: blmiers2) The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles In The City William B. Helmreich This to me is the astonishing story of William Helmrich, a professor in...
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Finished Reading: Emergence By Steven Johnson
Cover via Amazon I finished Emergence by Steven Johnson over the weekend and even though I had read it around three years ago I took a lot from it this time. It is amazing with emergent behavior that...
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Currently Reading: “The Science Of Cities: Is Urbanization Sustainable?”
Geoffrey West. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This afternoon I found this article on www.bigthink.com entitled “The Science of Cities: Is Urbanization Sustainable?” and the gist of the article is about The...
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Books Of Interest, November 24, 2013
I ran across these from several sources and I put them on my to read list: The Compatibility Gene Daniel M. Davis This was recommended by Bill Bryson in www.theguardian.com in their November 22,...
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Finished Reading: On The Run: Fugitive Life In An American City By Alice Goffman
Alice Goffman is now an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and she spent over six years in research and living in a neighborhood in Philadelphia where none of us...
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Currently Reading: Floating City By Sudhir Venkatesh
I started this book this afternoon and it appears to be very similar to On The Run by Alice Goffman. I have mixed emotions when I read this type of book due to the difficulties that the ethnographer...
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Finished Reading: Floating City By Sudhir Venkatesh
This book was a tremendous challenge from the standpoint of having numerous emotions about the characters in which the author wrote. Having previously worked with the homeless and downtrodden, it is...
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