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The Places We Live - Magnum Photos - 1 views

www.theplaceswelive.com urban land use residential areas urban poverty poverty slums urban environmentsurbanizationurban stresssquatter settlements'
shared by Jim Haske on 14 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Jim Haske on 14 Feb 09
     
    Jonas Bendiksen provide us with photos from four different slum areas which he visited: Caracas, Venezuela; Mumbai, India; Nairobi, Kenya; and Jakarta, Indonesia. He offers us a view of various aspects of slum life through images and narration he acquired while visiting 16 different homes in these cities.
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BBC News - Audio slideshow: Chicago's doomed spire - 3 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...world-us-canada-12778518 ib_geog2009 Urban environments The sustainable city Urban stress Urban land use
shared by Richard Allaway on 25 May 11 - No Cached
  • Richard Allaway on 25 May 11
     
    Slide show with commentary about the high rise in Chicago and how this was the city to watch for the 20th Century and how cities might re-assess their need to build up as a traditional CBD.  Helps to establish the idea of a CBD based on building height with Bid Rent and Burgess.   [Submitted by Chris Stephenson]
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Bricoleurbanism - 0 views

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shared by Richard Allaway on 27 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Richard Allaway on 27 Mar 11
     
    [Submitted by Mike Cline]
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Combatting Extremism in Casablanca - TIME - 0 views

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shared by James Mattiace on 12 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • James Mattiace on 12 Nov 12
     
    Deprivation in Casablanca suburb, linked to Chicago
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Decoding Paris | Making sense of Paris one blog at a time - 2 views

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shared by James Mattiace on 12 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • James Mattiace on 12 Feb 13
     
    Lots of great background on why things look the way they do in Paris.. The article on arrondissements was particularly good.
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Creating Hipsturbia in the Suburbs of New York - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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shared by Kathleen Noreisch on 17 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Kathleen Noreisch on 17 Feb 13
     
    New forms of suburbanization in NY. Gentrification of the suburbs?
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