Beijing I’m across the world, but business is business. Tanya Harris, New Orleans ACORN Head Organizer, was supposed to be with our delegation on this trip to Japan and China, but she ended up needing to stay home because her family needed her to be there, and it turned out that with all hell’s a popping …
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Urban Planning Exhibition
Shanghai They know they have problems here, and they are trying to get their arms wrapped around some of them. The Chinese envision Shanghai as the 21st Century New York and want to magnetize commerce here. The skyscrapers sprouting through the concrete and old town like weeds is part of that along with accommodating the surge …
Super Levees of Tokyo
Tokyo For all of the talk about what is wrong with the fools in New Orleans to have located their city in such an environmental crossfire, the attitude in Tokyo, the world’s largest city, seems to be to choose “safe rather than sorry.” The city is built in a mix of mayhem. Rivers frequently flooded areas …