DEAD PARROT NEWS PAGE
(postings
of articles, speeches, NEWS items, etc.)
NEWS:
Obama, Joshua, Immigration, Barrios and
Favelas,
click here
to read this NEWS item in which The Parrot Speaks Out on the State of the
U.S.
THE URBAN AGE PROGRAM,
is a series of
world-wide conferences, dedicated to studying the problems and issues facing
cities in the 21st century and creating dialogues designed to find
solutions. (See the UA’s own very
informative website: www.urban-age.net) 100 years ago, 10% of the world’s population
lived in cities, while 90% lived in rural areas. We are at a moment in history when the world
has just crossed the point that more than 50% of its population now live in
cities—and the United Nations predicts that by 2050 approximately 75% of the
world will live in cities. This fact
means that the nature of cities will have an incredibly important impact on the
nature of life on this planet. The Urban
Age program is centered at the
London School of Economics and funded by the Alfred Herrhausen
Society (the international forum of Deutsche Bank). These conferences are designed to form the
framework for the development of an ongoing dialogue between government
leaders, academic experts and urban practitioners—it brings together
architects, city planners, government officials, transportation experts, real
estate developers, and the academics who study these areas.
CULTURE ALERT: The URBAN AGE ELECTRIC CITY Conference in
London
click
here to read ELECTRIC CITY Conference in
London – December 2012
CULTURE ALERT: The URBAN AGE Conference in HONG KONG
click here to
read The URBAN AGE Conference in HONG KONG – November 2011
CULTURE ALERT: The Urban Age Conference in ISTANBUL
click
here to read The URBAN AGE Conference in ISTANBUL – November 2009
CULTURE ALERT: The Urban Age Conference in MUMBAI
click
here to read The URBAN AGE Conference in MUMBAI – November 2007
CULTURE ALERT: The GLOBAL CITIES exhibit at the Tate Modern,
London, 2007
click
here to read Global Cities – The Tate Modern, London, 2007
CULTURE ALERT: The BIENNALE for ARCHITECTURE –
click
here to read The Biennale for Architecture – Venice, 2006
CULTURE ALERT: The Urban Age Conference in
Click here to read The
URBAN AGE Conference in NYC – February 2005
NEWS: TRIANGLE
SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE – 100 YEAR LATER
NEWS: Constitutional
Referendum in Turkey
NEWS: The
Joshua Generation: Race and the campaign of Barack Obama by David Remnick
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to read this NEWS item by David Remnick on Race
and Obama’s campaign
NEWS: THE VIEW FROM FAR AWAY: Ethan Bronner on
the Obama Victory
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to read this NEWS item by Ethan Bronner about the
election results
CULTURE ALERT: CONFLICT ANTICIPATION – an article by Chris
Honeyman, et al.
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to read this item about Conflict Anticipation
NEWS:
Climate Change—The Stern Review
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read this
NEWS item about the Stern Report
NEWS: “Disaster: From
click
here to read this NEWS item by Brian Urquhart
NEWS/CULTURE:
Jimmy Carter -
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to read Dead Parrot’s review of Carter’s book
Anatol Lieven’s America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism. My NEWS email on this important book, including a copy of an article Lieven wrote for Current History, ”In the Mirror of Europe: The Perils of American Nationalism,” laying out many of the themes that are in the book.
click here to read this NEWS item on Lieven’s
book
International Red Cross Report on the treatment by the Coalition Forces of prisoners of war and other persons protected by the Geneva Conventions in Iraq
click here to read the report on treatment of prisoners in
Iraq
Speech by Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr., “Permanent Chaplain to the Yale Class of 1968,” at the 35th Reunion in New Haven, 31 May 2003:
a link to a site about Rev. Coffin
Lewis H. Lapham’s article:
Harper’s Magazine, May 2003
Paul
Goldberger’s article:
The New Yorker, 6 January 2002
Vision For 21st Century
12 December 2002
Click for-
The text of the Mayor’s
speech
Water color illustrations by Michael McCann:
Transportation
Terminal Interior
Charts
from the speech:
Uses of
Funds (Infrastructure)
