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,...

I read the Senate Foreign Relations Committee report "Another U.S. Deficit:-- China and America –Public Diplomacy in the Age of the Internet" today. What an amazing document, it reads like a laundry list of distortions and misrepresentations. Individual...

I had a great holiday weekend, three days of relaxation and reading. I spent Saturday with friends eating wonderful Wuhanese food then two days of sleeping, reading and listening on online broadcasts about 9-11 commemorations on Pacifica. I was particularly...

I went last night with friends to see source code, a new American sci fi movie showing in Wuhan. Sicifi films are often parables about complex social issues that cannot be addressed head on. This film was no exception, hard to miss the references in this...