January 2011
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China to make largest city in the world by... →
26 times the size of London
1/10th of China’s economy, growing at 4+%
Highly industrialized section of China - lots of pollution
Searching for a new name for the new city
29 rail lines, 3100 miles of track (NYC has 24 lines, and 800 miles of track)
42 million people -…
via climateadaptation and smartercities
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Financial crisis of 2008 avoidable, says US... →
The damning report criticised the extent of the financial deregulation overseen by the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan.
It concluded that the crisis was caused by a number of factors:
Failures in financial regulation, including the Federal Reserve’s failure “to stem the tide of toxic mortgages”
A breakdown in corporate governance that led to...
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Living in the End Times by Slavoj Žižek
Steven Poole on Slavoj Žižek’s omnivorous analyses
The Guardian, Saturday 26 June 2010
The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek has an admirable form of reply to the near-continuous dribble of attacks on him, whether from the bienpensant liberals he so enjoys provoking, or even, as last year in the conservative American magazine the New Republic, a crazed and borderline illiterate review...
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The Future of Cities →
A series from the Mark
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