Cédrick Klapisch‘s Chacun cherche son chat was shot 30 years ago in these streets — a film about an escaped car and her neighbourhood. Today, there’s an entire shop devoted to procuring food for the furry friend. Another marker for gentrification…
May be the resistance to global action in the face of climate change really is but one big form of NIMBYism. That, or wilful ignorance.
How natural the 15-minute-city idea is in an urban environment where a pub is named after their local neighbourhood— identified as a „village“.
A joy to watch the work of old friends at the Schirn in Frankfurt. Recommended to anyone interested in empowerment, music and forms of resistance.
Thank you for providing a visionary form of urban leadership, Anne! My students admire many of your initiatives — as do I. Enjoy what’s to come!
As a born and raised German, this really has more than an air of building a system of concentration centres across the US. And, like in Germany in the 1930s, a sizeable portion of the population actually thinks this is the way to go. Sickening.
As a long time member: thank you for opposing a politically motivated, anti-scientific decision.
Die Reduzierung von Leben auf dessen Wert als Ware -- auch im Spiegel.
Vielleicht ist der Donald ja nur der Testballon der ausreizen soll, wie weit ein rechter Politiker in Sachen Hass, Dummheit und Unmenschlichkeit gehen kann, bevor seine medial zurechtgekneteten Wähler sich abwenden.
Excellent! Thank you for making some things become clearer, Stuart.
I knew I could rely on you to share yet another eminently useable map! Dankeschön!
Watching Ben Shapiro attacking Nick Fuentes must count amongst the most un-self-conscious acts of attempting to exonerate one's own culpability ever attempted.
Ich habe immer öfter den Verdacht, dass Politiker heute erst mal ‘aus dem Bauch heraus’ Positionen postulieren, um hernach dann zu überlegen, wie (ob!) dieselben zu rechtfertigen sind.
No better person! All the best and congratulations!
Dachte ich eben auch beim Lesen des Textes. Und wo sind die selbsternannten Konservativen (in der CDU, zB), wenn es um Begriffe wie ‘Anstand’ und ‘Respekt’ geht? Als gelebte Prinzipien schaffen und erhalten diese nämlich auch Realitäten, um die es zu streiten lohnt.
Brent, is there a catalogue accompanying the exhibition? Thanks!
Comparing Liev Schreiber and Elon Musk's engagement with their own trans child makes me wonder why anyone could consider the latter someone to look up to.
The obvious gendering apart, perhaps there's something to be said for the selective democratic election process that just unfolded in the Vatican. Members of an organisation coming together to elect one of theirs to provide leadership. Universities did that in bygone days...
Our excellent colleague Brian Rosa guiding our students through Can Batlló in Barcelona. Help is always appreciated when out ‘in the field’!
Someone explain to me why 'the masses' are willing to swallow a lot of painful economic bs that negatively affects them in their pockets but are unwilling to accept even a modicum of habit-adjusting change when it comes to saving the planet?
Congrats, Sarah. Even if, looking from the outside in, welcome news like this increasingly appears to come from a different planet. All the more reason to celebrate!
The older I get, the less I am able to master the art of "understanding them". I read, am capable of empathy, know my German history shit and still -- self-interest alone, especially of the economic kind, should keep people from supporting the vile cohort. But it doesn't and I am none the wiser.
I‘ve been wondering about this myself — on the back of few, if any, in geography commenting on her actions. Ffs, if nominally progressive academics can force through such neoliberal bs, let’s at least call a spade... a spade.
Ich vermisse eben Günter Grass und Heinrich Böll doch sehr.
Did Trump voters mean to stop cancer research? Of course not. But they did - at least temporarily. Did voters of the NSdAP mean to exterminate ’the Jews’? Of course not. But they did. Consider the consequences of who and what party you vote for.
Why are people who proclaim to be dissatisfied with the world they live in voting for people with no expertise, no desire to improve matters and no love for neither their fellow human beings nor the planet we inhabit? Beats me.
Nothing thematic — we know what’s required. Post about decision-making: how to get car-dependent people on board of the decarbonisation process.
It depends, Antonio. Does your town have power over its resources? Can it make decisions without deferring to a higher authority? Are its citizens part of the decision-making process? All of this matters…
Interessant, daß auch die deutschen ÖR Fernsehanstalten dem Vorbild BBC nacheifern. Was im UK die Normalisierung des Herrn Farage war, scheint in D mit Frau W ähnlich abzulaufen. Warum nur? Quotenabhängigkeit?
Mmh. Which is their legitimate choice — and one I respect. But it should not nullify the fact that something, rather than nothing, is being offered.