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Entries from July 2008

cosmopolitan palermo

July 28th, 2008 · No Comments

As Richard Florida explores the nature of urban renewal by reusing some of his key hypothesis in his essay “How cities renew” in the latest Monocle, I’m getting word of a research project called “Cosmopolitan Palermo - Inquiry on the future of the city”. In both cases, the affluence of influential protagonists that [...]

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Tags: City · Cosmopolitan

2008 most liveable cities

July 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I owe a big apology to all my loyal readers for keeping you in the dark over the last 3 months. Since my last post I travelled to Mexico twice, shared the stage in San Francisco with some of the authorities on the “geoweb”, travelled to Corsica, the French Riviera, Lake Como, St. Moritz; [...]

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Tags: City · Statistics