... who, five years later, ran away, never to be seen again. Tania is revisited in “Other Resort Cities,” which goes into detail about the whole adoption process of bringing the girl over from ... While I’d love to read more about these people, I definitely would not want to hang out with most of them. OTHER RESORT CITIES is an eye-opening look at life in today’s society, never ...

Every year the Trudeau Foundation holds a conference around an idea; this year the theme was about cities, about rethinking the urban commons. While issues of governance, homelessness and immigration were discussed, much attention was paid to the greening of cities. The speakers and guests were a mix of politicians, policy wonks, philosophers and professors, with ...

... Awards in Melbourne, making special paper airplane capes for Sydney band Dappled Cities. It was an awesome show…plus somehow how a bunch of the paper airplanes flew off the balcony of the ... the streets of Melbourne the next morning.. such a great time! You can check out Dappled Cities here We’ll add more shots from the show soon and you can catch highlights from the awards on Channel ...

... projects about how to help "open" communities (be they software projects or cities) become more efficient. One of the claims of open source is that many eyes make all bugs ... sinks in a project is sorting through bugs and identifying those that are both legitimate and "new." Cities, particularly those with 311 systems that act similar to "bug tracking" software in open ...

... took office 10 months ago, faces a $300 million budget deficit - and few ways to make up the difference. Against that bleak backdrop, Wall Street is squeezing one of America's weakest cities for every penny it can. A few years ago, Detroit struck a derivatives deal with UBS and other banks that allowed it to save more than $2 million a year in interest on $800 million worth of bonds. But ...

The press statement of the upcoming Mindanao Power Summit 2009 alarmed me. It said that “by 2014, projections have it that Mindanao will have a deficit capacity of 484 megawatts which is equivalent to putting out power in the five major cities of Mindanao – Zamboanga, Cagayan de Oro, Davao, Butuan, and Cotabato.” That means that