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	<description>by Judith Ryser, Urbanist &#38; Journalist</description>
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		<title>OC 58: Remaking Cities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 18:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Ryser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Open Cities Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gentrification]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[About Café-Diplo Café Diplo is a sister discussion group of “Les Amis Le Monde Diplomatique” which supports writings and tradition evolved around Le Monde Diplomatic newspaper of which there exists an English edition. The debates are arranged around the Café-Diplo’s global anti neo-conservative liberal tradition which covers a wide range of issues. http://mondediplofriends.org.uk/index.htm The future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OC 57: Munich observed afresh</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Ryser</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[coexistence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[designing openness?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physical barriers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imperial traces No matter how long ago and for how long a city has been a seat of domination, no matter how often its power has waxed and waned, a presence of its historic glory remains unmistaken. Munich is one such historic seat of power, wealth and might. The biased eyes of an urbanist will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Franco German Friendship</title>
		<link>http://urbanthinker.com/polis-politics/franco-german-friendship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Ryser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Polis & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[celebration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[European heritage In the heart of Munich a marquee was erected in front of the Italianating loggia façade of the Feldherrnhalle (Field Marshalls’ Hall), a monumental building with military connotation. Perhaps not the most appropriate backdrop for the commemoration of the Anglo German Elysee Treaty of friendship signed by Adenauer and de Gaulle fifty years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dissent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 11:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Ryser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Urban Art & Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative standpoint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exclusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extreme wealth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not all is well in the (alp-)rose garden? In the midst of wealth and dynamic urban change a group of artists are manifesting their disquiet, or more urgently their angst about what extreme wealth is inflicting on those without access to any of it. Their work expresses how over-confidence is affecting those who do not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revolution &#8211; Almost But Not Quite</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Ryser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Polis & Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative urban strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coexistence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global social movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovative thinking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two aspects came to mind from the conversation between the translator Donald Nicholson-Smith and the art historian Timothy J Clark: one was the challenge of ‘translation’, the other the revival of interest in ’68. Transposition The occasion was Nicholson-Smith’s new English translation - ‘The Revolution of Everyday Life’ - of the “Traite de savoir-vivre a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Light &#8211; Magic &#8211; Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Ryser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Light is magic. The popular success of the Light Show at the Hayward Gallery is living proof of that. http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/venues/hayward-gallery One could spend hours just watching how spectators - from very young to very old - interact with the various ways artists are manipulating light, creating illusions, curiosity and unforeseen reactions. Light has always been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money and Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Ryser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Festivals, ‘a must’ for cities Festivals have become almost ‘a must’ for cities in their competition for attention and position on global city rank orders. The ‘City of London Festival’ has completed its first half century of existence last year and has established itself firmly as a prominent city festival. (City of London Festival 2013m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OC 56: Greening the City Globally?</title>
		<link>http://urbanthinker.com/open-cities/oc-56-greening-the-city-globally/</link>
		<comments>http://urbanthinker.com/open-cities/oc-56-greening-the-city-globally/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Ryser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Open Cities Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alternative development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable city]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ecobuild, a trade fair in London promoting “sustainable building” has been going from strength to strength for nine years, despite the financial crisis and various changes of hands. In 2011, UBM acquired International Business Events who owned ecobuild and planned to make ecobuild global, starting with an exhibition in Shanghai alongside its show expobuild and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OC 55:  &#8220;Legalities of Space&#8221;: from squatting to tolerated occupation</title>
		<link>http://urbanthinker.com/open-cities/c55-legalities-of-space-from-squatting-to-tolerated-occupation/</link>
		<comments>http://urbanthinker.com/open-cities/c55-legalities-of-space-from-squatting-to-tolerated-occupation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Ryser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Open Cities Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coexistence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovative thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right to the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[segregation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spatial justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban protest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Right to land Controversies over ‘legalities of space’ affect a wide variety of peoples. ‘IdleNoMore’ supports the struggle of first nations for what they believe to be their immutable right to their land and their way of life (see the previous  post OC 54). Such controversies take many different forms in diverse circumstances. On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OC 54: How Temporary is Temporary?</title>
		<link>http://urbanthinker.com/open-cities/oc54-how-temporary-is-temporary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Judith Ryser</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[right to land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[right to own culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[temporary rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pace of change In our turbulent times, nothing seems predictable, nothing stable. So why should this state of uncertainty not permeate all aspects of everyday life? Here the focus is on how and where to live, among whom, for what purpose, and with what rights. Legalities of space What are the “legalities of space” was [...]]]></description>
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