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Friday, July 06, 2007 12:10 PM

Eminent Domain & Economic Development

Local executive and legislative offices become often contentious with each other and with the public over redevelopment projects all across US cities and communities. Governments all around the world are legally allowed to use the power of “eminent domain”,
Posted by Urban Flaneur | 886 Comments
Friday, June 29, 2007 4:47 PM

How Foreign Governments Impact Domestic Race Relations

Today, I had the pleasure of having lunch with a high-ranking diplomat from an Asian country who spent several years in the states and he had quite an opinion about domestic politics and race relations. His main message to me was how he despised the neighboring
Posted by Urban Flaneur | 1 Comments
Thursday, April 19, 2007 4:02 PM

Gun Control, Mental Health and Programmatic Failures

April 19, 2007 I am still in disbelief and in shock about the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech. I am also enraged that a mentally disturbed individual inhumanely gunned down 32 innocent people. Trying to move forward from this, I am compelled to start
Posted by Urban Flaneur | 4 Comments
Friday, March 30, 2007 11:14 AM

Is money the solution to all societal problems?

Should the government give financial incentives for people in poverty to change their behavior? For instance, if a poverty-stricken individual sticks with his job for over three months, should he receive a monetary award from the City? Or better yet,
Posted by Urban Flaneur | 6 Comments
Monday, March 05, 2007 10:15 AM

achieving "greener" airports

In January 2007, Los Angeles Council Member Rosendahl ( http://www.lacity.org/council/cd11/ ) issued a vision statement on his blog to achieve the "greenest" airport (LAX) in Los Angeles – see below for an excerpt. Since the federal government and authorities
Posted by Urban Flaneur | 896 Comments
Saturday, February 24, 2007 7:26 PM

Global Poverty & Microfinance

Last week, one of my good friends and fellow social entrepreneur Carolyn Chen from NYU Stern invited me to their annual global business conference (2/23/07). Although the day featured extraordinary leaders from every facet of life, I was mostly interested
Posted by Urban Flaneur | 781 Comments
Thursday, February 08, 2007 3:18 PM

2/6/07 Draft Letter to President Stewart

Dear President Stewart: On Friday, February 2, the world was awakened by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sobering statistics that provide 90 percent certainty that human activity has caused global warming. The report, which
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Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:17 AM

grooted path method (gpm)

there is a glaring contradiction in the world of environmental progressivism and deriving at sustainable solutions. Corporations and governments are calling upon each other and the public to take global warming and climate control more serious now than
Posted by Urban Flaneur | 1 Comments
Sunday, January 28, 2007 2:00 AM

changing the public's behavior for public good

In many public agenda-setting and policy passing spaces in every level of government, elected officials and decision makers (community leaders, private sector interest groups, etc.) will try to introduce a policy that requires the public to shift their
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Saturday, December 30, 2006 2:30 AM

Change for the Better and the Hurdles

When we need and demand global to local change, due to the recent internet-driven culture, the X and post-X generations approach the process of change with an impatient attitute. In our internet, e-mail, blackberry world, instantaneous gratification has
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:28 AM

follow up to public-private 2.0

In my previous entry I touched on global warming and environmental policy as the critical path towards a public-private collaborative model. Copied below is a great article from the NY Times today that looks at global warming from an economic perspective
Posted by Urban Flaneur | 2 Comments
Wednesday, November 29, 2006 8:58 PM

Public-Private 2.0: What is the Common Denominator?

The private and public sectors clash and collaborate everyday as we constantly mesh capitalism, democracy, and every other ideology in between to create a viable society. Before discussing in details about the common denominator betwen these two worlds,
Posted by Urban Flaneur | 3 Comments
Wednesday, November 29, 2006 9:47 AM

about the flaneurship

The word flaneur derives from the French word flâner, which means to idle about and stroll ... it's a word I learned while taking a postmodern art class in undergrad. The Flaneur represented an urbane individual who on the outside seemed like idling but
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