Tag Archives: jane jacobs

nomad economics: wandering with the 99%

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Dave

… it was the small is beautiful view that Jane Jacobs professed. The city, the urban space was a piece of female architecture, a metaphor for woman and it was being terribly abused. Raped, violated and beaten, it was only … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Allan Ginsberg, Asger Jorn, Charles Baudelaire, Guy Debord, james howard kuntzler, jane jacobs, John Sloan, John Updike, kuntzler, Marcel Duchamp, robert moses, sharon zulkin, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

blissful idleness

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Dave

Perhaps the greatest of all social revolutions, and one of enormous economic consequences not that profoundly explored, began in the eighteenth-century,when Europe grew not only rich enough to support a large class of non-workers, but also began to organize the … Continue reading →