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Category Archives: Culture
‘Our dear departed’: guest speaker Maureen Hambrecht
(October 5, 2002) How society has dealt with moral remains in the past: as the nineteenth century progressed it was becoming obvious that the local churchyards could no longer cope in the growing towns and cities. Continue reading
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Health and the city
(October 2, 2002) The farther we live from cities, the sicker we are and the sooner we die, Statistics Canada revealed in a series of recently released reports. The closer we live to cities, the healthier we are. Continue reading
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The city after 9/11
(September 11, 2002) Sept. 11, 2001, unleashed a momentous, urgent debate over the future of homeland security and an equally momentous, if less urgent, debate over the future of the city. Continue reading
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Consecrated ground
(August 24, 2002) This is Local London/CommuniGate – The rationale and implications of consecration. Continue reading
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Spaces of the dead in modernity
(December 20, 2001) Cultural Studies Program, George Mason University – “There is little to be said about death, what we do with the dead is less shrouded in silence. We know that unlike the poor, the dead are not always with us.” Continue reading
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Urban Renaissance Institute 