Sublime

Florida drew the transient and rootless on the eternal promise of a second chance, with more than its share of scammers and con men. So who was to say the guy living next door wasn’t one of them? A subdivision like Carriage Pointe was Jane Jacobs’s vision of hell.

Berne Declaration

And yet this never came to pass. There was never a workers’ revolution that overthrew the system – at least not on a global scale. The reason why was that contrary to Marx’s predictions capitalism could ‘fix’ – both spatially and technologically – the very problems it generated. The ‘spatial fix’ is what underpins contemporary globalisation, charac

At the time Washington was designated to be the capital of the young United States, Americans seem almost universally to have believed that because it was to be the capital, it was destined to become a great commercial and industrial city too, a London, Paris or Rome. But cities simply cannot be “explained” by their locations or other given resourc

Locke acreditava na condição social do homem e via a terra como um bem comum a todos: não seria Deus e nem o consentimento, mas o trabalho, que daria razão à propriedade. O governo seria responsável por proteger a propriedade, mediante composição de leis e regulamentos, fornecendo títulos que resguardassem o proprietário contra competidores que tiv

Many workers in the contemporary economy are precarious service workers, cleaning the homes and offices of those with stable jobs, making other people’s lives seamless.

AdBusters

Economic crises and uneven development, despite what CNBC or Econ 101 says, are an absolute necessity for the capitalist mode of production.