Category Archives: Watch Your Language!

How language,, the use of words, conceals and distorts meaning.

Blog #28: Sandy, Housing, the Market, and the State’s Planning Response

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

Blog #28: Sandy, Housing, the Market, and the State’s Planning Response The attempt by government to mix the public and private market response to disasters such as Sandy, or indeed to mix the two in dealing with the crisis in … Continue reading →

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#10 – The Changes in Occupy and the Right to the City

Posted on March 25, 2012 by

Blog #10 – The Changing Character of Occupy and the Right to the City I. The Historical Roots of Occupy and the Right to the City Both the Occupy movements and the Right to the City movements, two of the … Continue reading →

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On Reading David Harvey on the Tarmic with the help of Jesus

Posted on July 23, 2011 by

ON READING DAVID HARVEY ON THE TARMAC IN TORONTO, LISTENING TO JESUS’ VISION ” The term “city” has an iconic and symbolic history that is deeply embedded in the pursuit of political meanings.  The city of God, the city on … Continue reading →

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