Category Archives: General

Originally posted on bytegirl photography:
And here we go again, time for another trip down the lane.  This time we are avoiding the color and heading straight into the black and white.   We will begin on the Upper Eastside.  I rarely…

Originally posted on Global Exchange 2014: Cities and Recovery:
Strategy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLrPJghHIzg Belo Horizonte-Lara article This is an article about Participatory Budgeting in Brazil. It brought tremendous changes into Favelas, which is unsettlement housing areas in Brazil. It is used in many…

Originally posted on Affordable Housing Institute – Global Blog:
The Guardian’s Simon Jenkins wrote a very interesting piece this week on Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. “…They have become intellectual works-in-progress to universities such as Pennsylvania, Columbia and the LSE. Pennsylvania…

Originally posted on BIA DANIELLE:
? Rocinha is not only the biggest favela in Brazil, but also on the entire South American continent. It has a lot of pubs, two radio stations, a separate cable channel, two schools, a church…

Originally posted on Jace Harr:
A friend decided to rant the other day: why doesn’t English distinguish between different kinds of “we” and “us?” If you tell your friend “We’re going to the mall,” how are they supposed to know…

Over the past four years, archaeologists from the University of Manchester have been working on a project exploring the evolution of the role of Whitworth Park over time. As the project now finished, a new exhibition is being set up at Manchester Museum, entitled ‘Whitworth…

? The Fire Brigades Union has announced that Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service will be on strike, along with colleagues in England and Wales. Confirmed dates for strikes are: Friday, 2 May, 2014 – midday until 5pm Saturday, 3 May,…