While you were proposing the tackiest building ever designed, Detroit, one of these articles was having the BEST WEEK EVER!!ITEM ONE: Some interesting speculative fiction on the politically autonomous future of North American citystates over at All About Cities.
ITEM TWO: AHI's 2008 list 'o predictions, hot off the presses!
ITEM THREE: A funky video from GOOD Magazine that explores the etymology of conflict-prone caital cities around the world.
ITEM FOUR: Built Chicago points to a provacative new book about the drug trade in the Robert Taylor Homes here in Chicago. (Also: Apartment Therapy Chicago on Cabrini Green, and TNAC on the last season of The Wire).
ITEM FIVE: Colorful photogasm of Dharavi's "13 Compound" neighborhood.
ITEM SIX: Baltimore sues Wells Fargo for predatory lending. This is going to be interesting...
ITEM SEVEN: A guide to web tools for eating locally for all of you New Years Resolutionists. (Via Very Spatial)
Adios, compadres. Hope you have the best weekend ever. ;-) Don't forget to sound off on the Conscious Urbanism Game, if you get the chance.
(Photo from Flickr user ChicagoEye. The original full-color version can be viewed by clicking the photo.)
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