I’m back to reading a book called Manhattan For Rent, 1785-1850, by Elizabeth Blackmar. I overheard intellectual greats Peter Kinder and Joy Anderson discussing their favorite books at a conference a year ago and made notes. This book helps shed important light on gentrification. “Far from fulfilling the egalitarian potential of abundant land distributed to [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Land, Capital & Gentrification
Posted in Capital Thoughts on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Participatory Democracy
Posted in Along the Way on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Next Form of Democracy: How Expert Rule Is Giving Way to Shared Governance — and Why Politics Will Never Be the Same by Matt Leighninger (Author) I attended a lecture at Portland city hall, basically book tour for this book, Wed April 30th 6pm. It was great! Matt is the executive director of the [...]
