"Much of what planners do today reflects their understanding of practice and their aspirations as molded by the planning theories they have read or heard about, or by the ideas of others which, in turn, were molded by theories " -
Bruce Stiftel
Stumbled on the concept of Anarchic Geography.
The map is a device of power. What happens when this device is purposely redirected, hacked mischievously or stolen outright?
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The June 12 Election has sparked a crisis in our country. As events unfold, one thing is certain: No one knows how this will actually play itself out. There are too many variables and too many unknowns. There will be speculation, rumor, and assertion about what happened, what is happening, and what will happen. Like everyone else, I'm trying to make sense of unpredictable and inexplicable realities. But everything I think appears in my head surrounded by a host of disclaimers, skepticism, anxiety, righteousness.
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The concept of "government failure" arose in the 1980s. It is not concerned with criticism of government regulations. Rather, it seeks to describe "government failure" along similar lines as the idea of "market failure."
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It's not how much rent you pay for your apartment. Rent-seeking, in the words of The "
Economist" is:
Cutting yourself a bigger slice of the cake rather than making the cake bigger. Trying to make more money without producing more for customers.
"The Cake", here, of course, refers to collective resources or benefits.
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Nowruz 2009, US President
Barak Obama wished Iranians a happy Now Ruz.
He also gave Iranian leaders some "choices". A move that will, no doubt, inspire an immediate "Tu quoque" reflex and be dismissed.
What is "tu quoque", how does it kill conversation, and how might a Foreign Policy Museum on the Washington Mall change that? Let's explore.
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In his book, "
Seeing like a State", James C. Scott describes the mechanism at the heart of a state's (government's) tendency to sedenterize (settle) nomads as "the state's attempt to make a society legible." He further develops the thesis that
legibility is "a central problem of statecraft."
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Here is a draft
vision statement for "Institutional Frameworks":
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The Shiraz University Planning Department calls itself the Department of Urbanism. What do they mean by this? Well, let's look at "New Urbanism". A movement with some supporters, a
congress ("CNU") and a
charter. How is the "New Urbanism" different from "Urbanism"? How do the principles of the charter fit with the issues facing Iran, and specifically, our home city, Shiraz?
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We have translated the first 2 pages of the book "
Property Rights, Planning and Markets" by Chris Webster and Lawrence Wai-Chung Lai into Persian (used by kind permission from the author, all rights reserved). It is posted here to introduce the concepts, stimulate discussion and as a sample of translated academic writing for Persian students of the English language class. Thanks to M. Jahangiri for excellence in translation.
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It's all good," they say. All. Good. TYPO!
The letter "F" needs to assume it's proper place in this sentence. To chew up the "g" and spit it out.
"It's all good." »
Fgood. » "
It's all FOOD."
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"Market failure" is commonly used as the basis for government intervention. However, the mechanisms of "market failure" are not well understood, leading to counter-productive policies. What IS Market Failure?
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