Posts Tagged ‘urbanization’
By Cultural Shifts and Benjamin Christensen — April 1st, 2008
Panel 3: From within Canada: Identity and Public Policy
Reading Global Genders: Mapping gender-based struggles in the global geographies of local marginality
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Michael A. Lithgow, Mass Communication
Travelling third class: regulating the transport of farm animals in Canada
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Michelle Barrett, Political Economy
National Identity Examined: …
By Michael Lithgow — April 1st, 2008
The over-valorization of the global spatial has created renewed interest in recovering the role of the ‘local’ in the creation, maintenance and expansion of global flows and networks. Global place(s) are the urban territories where global networks ‘touchdown’ and organize material capabilities. This reorganization of …
By Jim Larwill — March 12th, 2008
Landscape is real-estate. Paintings of the “natural” world are travelogue posters evoking a time and place that no longer exists.
By Lucas Oleniuk — January 21st, 2008
Twenty days. Twenty thousand still images. A single message. A photographer’s take on the issue of climate change, in a video created entirely by using still images.
By Cultural Shifts — December 11th, 2007
There is a great documentary called The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal, which takes a look at the art created out of anti-graffiti campaigns and graffiti removal actions (like buffing). The Web Urbanist looks at the documentary and some of the net culture …
By mejuan — December 10th, 2007
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gud2Yu4bCw[/youtube]
