An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Trees Please: Saving and Serving the Urban Forest
Posted on February 25, 2021 | 2 Comments - The Call to Decolonize: Thoughts, Actions, and Spaces
Posted on February 18, 2021 | No Comments - Ecological Succession: Moving Toward Regeneration with Linda Gibbs
Posted on February 12, 2021 | 2 Comments - Recipe for Abuse: Palm Oil, Child Labor, and Girl Scout Cookies
Posted on February 5, 2021 | 1 Comment - Ch´ol Creation Story: The Origin of Life on Earth
Posted on February 4, 2021 | 2 Comments
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‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
megacities Archive
Sustainable Vertical Urbanism: The Future of Cities?
Posted on December 17, 2014 | 1 Comment"Vertical City," a complete ecosystem in the sky that you never have to leave, accommodates population growth and protects the planet, but may have significant drawbacks for the people who call it home and their connection to the earth. Projects in China and Dubai illustrate the concept and its limitations.African Garden Cities: Urbanization Without Planning for People
Posted on May 7, 2013 | 2 CommentsMaster planned, self contained New Cities have appeared all over Africa. Emulating models from the global north, private-sector boosters advance them without considering factors such as environment, economy, context and even poverty. Nairobi-based urban practitioner Jane Lumumba argues they might only make social and economic problems worse.Bangladesh: A Flooding, Mega-Urbanizing, Climate Trap
Posted on October 7, 2012 | No CommentsIn Dhaka, climate change refugees are moving from the countryside and into squalid slums due to repeated monsoonal floods that have rendered traditional farmland unusable. A new documentary by Ami Vitale from the Knight Center for International Media wades through the floods, looking for solutions.Chinese Mega-Cities Contrasted with Calvino’s ‘Invisible Cities”
Posted on August 13, 2012 | 2 CommentsRapid industrialization in China has caused a massive migration to crowded, faceless and polluted urban mega-cities of 10 million residents or more. They should consider Italo Calvino's utopian "Invisible Cities" to rethink the role of imagination in urban planning.China’s Utopian-Growth Overdose: Cities for Nobody
Posted on April 5, 2011 | 2 CommentsChina's planned mega-city for 42 million people has created vacant rows of overpriced high rise apartments and office buildings, sprawling malls without tenants or shoppers, freeways and transit lines constructed for no one.Megacities Rise from the Egyptian Desert
Posted on August 31, 2010 | No CommentsUnsustainable urban sprawl continues to spread through the world responding to massive population growth and poor planning practices, as people clamor to escape the crowded, contaminated, crime-ridden urban miasma like Cairo.
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