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Cordelia at the Phenomenal Field proposes a home study course in New Urbanism, based on recommended reading over at the Where blog . I’ll sign up for this home study course – this has been a subject burgeoning at the base of my brain for awhile. I’ve had Jane Jacob’s book ( The Death and Life of Great American Cities ) on my wish list for some time. I need an excuse to pull that trigger, and the others on the list sound great as well: 2. The Option of Urbanism by Christopher Leinberge

Fostering an innovative and creative environment, combined with iterative and rapid application development principles, is key to increasing market share and remaining competitive.

ARTS bosses have promised to preserve the region’s cultural credentials amid a round of job cuts at the Arts Council. A nationwide review of arts management could see an end to Arts Council North East’s leading role in backing the region’s creative minds.

A top-level team from the Hollywood movie industry traveled to Iran on a non-government mission, for a weekend of cultural and creative exchange meetings, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Friday.

There are not a lot of books I find stimulating enough to deserve the ‘full roll out’ review and dialogue with, but Andy Crouch’s new book Culture-Making is one of them. I am currently working on a little book in my Kingdom series for Eerdmans (the first is out next month and entitled Imminent Domain), and this third in the series I am working on is entitled ‘Labora’: Work in the Light of the Kingdom. The following is a draft of what will go into one of the chapters of this book. See what yo

Alan Segal teaches religion at Barnard College. For ten years he worked on this book Life After Death (880 pages, Doubleday, 2004) subtitled, A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion . This brilliant book is chock full of quality facts and insights and rightfully takes it place among those sweeping, comprehensive and analytical interdisciplinary works on great ideas in western culture. This is a work by an accomplished scholar for others who seek humanistic understanding. Segal do

I used to think that every little thing I did was crazy but now I think the karma cops are comin’ after you. aerosmith ~ full circle I’ve given all I can but were still on the payroll. radiohead ~ karma police For a minute there, I lost myself. Several posts ago, in You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby , I wrote, “Hints in the sidebar: compare and contrast.” The big hint was the second item — here it’s the first. The big hint was actually not so big. The big hint was actually prett

http://ChangingNormal.com is a profound experiment to CREATE A GLOBAL MYTHOLOGY formed by our collective expressions and ideas. From these collaborations, guiding principles for world design are emerging within activity arenas called COMMUNITY DISCOVERY DOMAINS …

By the mid-’90s, the DIY culture of creative expression had sparked the indie craft movement that–fueled by the Internet’s connective power and the commercial platform of sites like Etsy.com–grew into a full-on revolution.

Catherine Stewart, professor at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, speaks about black novelist and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston Friday at the Mt. Pleasant Public Library. MPN photo by Mira Cash-Davis.