steve

I have been busy busy for the last month..no time for anything other than work, work, work. I celebrated Christmas by making a trip to Hong Kong. A totally different experience than Wuhan. It feels much like any other world city. Hong Kong seems to me...

Very interesting POV on the emerging situation in Greece. Amazing that the soon-to-be ex-government cancelled the referendum after a meeting with the Troika, I wonder how far off a military coup is, given the reorganization of the military and the disregard...

Lately I have had plenty of time to surf through various web sites concerned with the OWS campouts. It has been facinating to read the non-coverage in the Washington Post, and the cheerleading on Truthout, Alternet, and Counterpunch. All this time at...

The OWS protests are interesting as I follow them from Wuhan. It is all so spatial, claiming and remaking community space in the city. It s multi-scalar and provides a framing for a number of localized social conflicts concering public space and the commons....

I have been renviewing the literature and surfing the internet looking at social network analysis. Social network analysis unlike some other social science methods examines structures of relationships rather than attributes of entities. Starting with...

Temples, scenic walks with interesting rocks and of course, the dam. It was a fun trip. Just some pictures I took around the dam a couple of weeks ago. The dam was a dam big dam... Very Engineering. The monument fountain was dramatic.

I have been enjoying watching the occupy wall street moment develop. It has been ten years since the big summit convergences and the comming together of youth and unions in a common space of resistance. That all ended on September 11, replaced by a mostly...

I like it when people reclaim the commons and create chaotic, performative events built around action in space, rather than narrative. It might be mimicing the events of Arab Spring, but tactics diffuse. Ten years ago, the point of vulneraility were the...

Reading some blogs today...this one struck my fancy http://www.urbanomic.com/pub_collapse6.php "Collapse". and a listing of international conferences. Iliked this list of keynote speaker abstracts: http://extra.shu.ac.uk/transmission/docs/transmission%20keynote%20abstracts.pdf...

Ultimately, the meaning of place is fixed through a social imaginary, or an iconic image. An "urban imaginary" is the way we mentally map out our urban "realities" and how we "think about, experience, evaluate, and decide to act in the places, spaces,...