Category Archives: Cities

City Planners from hell – Quebec’s tongue troopers lash out at business

Posted on June 21, 1997 by urbanrenaissanceinst

(June 21, 1997) Quebec’s L’Office De La Langue française may claim to be making the province’s job market safe for non-English speakers, but in the process it is stifling small businesses and driving capital away from an already floundering economy suffering from 12 per cent unemployment. Continue reading →

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Book reviews Libertarians miss holistic nature of society

Posted on June 21, 1997 by urbanrenaissanceinst

(June 21, 1997) (Free Press, 1997. 314 pages) $31. Politics in modern democracy is organized around a left-right axis. Other axes may represent ethnic, religious, or regional cleavages, but the left-right spectrum is always present. Continue reading →

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Planners from hell – The second suppression of Saigon

Posted on March 21, 1997 by urbanrenaissanceinst

(March 21, 1997) Immediately after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, the victorious communists renamed Saigon after their leader, Ho Chi Minh, purged it of discos, luxury shops and other Western excesses, moved part of the populace to the countryside and brought the city to a listless calm. Continue reading →

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Discussion group on, reading, writing and racism (part 2 of 2)

Posted on March 21, 1997 by urbanrenaissanceinst

(March 21, 1997) The Next City Discussion Group, Reading, writing and racism. Black ideology is the black child’s most debilitating burden. Continue reading →

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