DEAD PARROT NEWS PAGE
(postings of articles, speeches, NEWS items, etc.)
NEWS/CULTURE:
NEWS: Obama, Joshua, Immigration, Barrios and
Favelas,
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which The Parrot Speaks Out on the State of the U.S.
NEWS: The Joshua
Generation: Race and the campaign of Barack Obama by David Remnick
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David Remnick on Race and Obama’s campaign
NEWS: THE VIEW FROM FAR AWAY: Ethan Bronner on the Obama Victory
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Ethan Bronner about the election results
THE
URBAN AGE PROGRAM, is a series of
world-wide conferences, dedicated to studying the problems and issues facing
cities in the 21st century and creating dialogues designed to find
solutions. (See the UA’s own very
informative website: www.urban-age.net) 100 years ago, 10% of the world’s population
lived in cities, while 90% lived in rural areas. We are at a moment in history when the world
has just crossed the point that more than 50% of its population now live in
cities—and the United Nations predicts that by 2050 approximately 75% of the
world will live in cities. This fact
means that the nature of cities will have an incredibly important impact on the
nature of life on this planet. The Urban
Age program is centered at the
London School of Economics and funded by the Alfred Herrhausen Society (the
international forum of Deutsche Bank). These conferences are designed to form the
framework for the development of an ongoing dialogue between government
leaders, academic experts and urban practitioners—it brings together
architects, city planners, government officials, transportation experts, real
estate developers, and the academics who study these areas.
CULTURE ALERT: The
Urban Age Conference in ISTANBUL
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URBAN AGE Conference in ISTANBUL – November 2009
CULTURE ALERT: The
Urban Age Conference in MUMBAI
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URBAN AGE Conference in MUMBAI – November 2007
CULTURE ALERT: The
GLOBAL CITIES exhibit at the Tate Modern, London, 2007
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Cities – The Tate Modern, London, 2007
CULTURE ALERT: The
BIENNALE for ARCHITECTURE –
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Biennale for Architecture – Venice, 2006
CULTURE ALERT: The
Urban Age Conference in
Click here to read The
URBAN AGE Conference in NYC – February 2005
CULTURE ALERT:
CONFLICT ANTICIPATION – an article by Chris Honeyman, et al.
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Conflict Anticipation
NEWS:
Climate Change—The Stern Review
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about the Stern Report
NEWS: “Disaster: From
click here to read this NEWS item by
Brian Urquhart
Jimmy Carter -
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review of Carter’s book
Anatol Lieven’s America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism. My NEWS email on this important book, including a copy of an article Lieven wrote for Current History, ”In the Mirror of Europe: The Perils of American Nationalism,” laying out many of the themes that are in the book.
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read this NEWS
item on Lieven’s book
International Red Cross Report on the treatment by the Coalition Forces of prisoners of war and other persons protected by the Geneva Conventions in Iraq
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read the report on treatment of prisoners in Iraq
Speech by Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr., “Permanent Chaplain to the Yale Class of 1968,” at the 35th Reunion in New Haven, 31 May 2003:
a link to a site
about Rev. Coffin
Lewis H. Lapham’s
article:
Harper’s Magazine, May 2003
Paul Goldberger’s
article:
The New Yorker, 6 January 2002
Mayor Bloomberg’s
Speech:
Vision For 21st Century
12 December 2002
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The text of the Mayor’s speech
Water
color illustrations by Michael McCann:
Transportation Terminal Interior
Charts
from the speech:
Uses of Funds (Infrastructure)
