Buenos Aires We tried all the forms of mass transit to settle on our favorite, and maybe the best, system for getting from the Belgrano neighborhood where we are living to the ACORN office on Medrano, where we work in El Centro just a few blocks from the Casa Rosado, the national capitol of Argentina. …
Author: wade
Bulls-eye on Target
Buenos Aires Wal-Mart is a part of Argentina, but only a small part. In the grocery stores here, like Disco, where we went last night, there are hardly any American products actually. The occasional Lays brand of potato chips, American cigarettes and booze (not beer!), some personal products and so forth, but not much food. …
Being a New Orleans Planner
Montevideo With every day we come closer to the one-year anniversary of the devastation of New Orleans by Katrina. Every day we also become more deeply mired in the seemingly endless case study in frustration and hypocrisy that passes for professional “planning.” With the election for Mayor long over and gone, and the Canizaro-Urban Land …