It is probably easier to understand what Rural Urbanism is first by explaining what it is not.
It is not taking a chunk of the city and dropping it in the countryside.
Neither is it trying to re-create the countryside in the middle of the city.
Rural Urbanism is more of an art, [...]
This Blog is currently under re-construction.
[...]The vision for the Contract for a Sustainable America grew largely out of my frustration that for over a year there was too strong a focus on one political race in America and too little interest in the fact that the US Congress has much more control over many of [...]
I just called Representative Pelosi’s office in San Francisco to see if she had any intention of calling Congress back to work, or whether they were just going to stay on vacation during the crisis. As I was told there was no current intention by Pelosi to return to work [...]
Over the last twenty years, home prices have escalated far outpacing real wages.
This home price inflation was largely driven by rapid consumption of land by sprawl, unrealistically loose and available credit, financial gimicks and fraud.
It is now correcting to real value, based on a world market of employment, production and [...]
It has become clear there should be two contracts for 2008.
The draft of the first is here:
The second is a bit simpler.
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Dear Representative or Senator,
Do you support term limits and will you actively help to originate and support such a bill as quickly as possible during the 111th [...]
I can not help but think this week of the 1994 Baseball strike. It was a truly great season.  Tony Gwynn hitting like he would finish the season with a batting average over 400, while both Matt Williams and Ken Griffey with 43 and 40 home runs respectively with a chance at Roger [...]
When House Democrats met at 3 pm on September 30, 2008, approximately one day after House Leader Pelosi’s dreadful performance, it was incredibly refreshing to see how diligently they were working during a vacation called by Pelosi and current House leadership. But more importantly it was even more encouraging to hear [...]
In case you have not noticed Mrs. House Majority Leader, banks around the world are failing, and we sit on the edge of a rather perilous prescipitous.
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This is simply not a time for yet another vacation. You were hired to do a job, now please call the House back to [...]
We began the morning of September 29, 2008 with a further march towards a socialist state led by the Bush Administration and Treasury Secretary Paulson as Uncle Sam purchased $12 Billion of Citigroup and assumed all risk of Wachovia’s bad debt in excess of $42 Billion in exchange, as well [...]
As I sit with my coffee watching the preview of the Sunday morning pundit shows I am returned to yesterday and thinking of Paul Newman and as well Tim Russert.
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When a famous person passes away it usually does not affect me as it seems to do so many, as I [...]
The Commission on Presidential Debates and Jim Lehrer should be ashamed of themselves. I can understand that they felt they had so many financial commitments and so much money invested that they felt it was imperative for them to continue with the debate on schedule.
However to not fundamentally change the [...]
A whole lot of finger pointing is going in Washington DC tonight as we lead into the debates but there is one clear indisputable fact.
The Democrats control the House and they control the Senate, and as five days slowly ticked off with all of America watching they failed to come [...]
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by:Â Sarah Janisse Brown
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I am America, and I am free.
Today I am free to flip a switch, and light appears to fill the room.
Tomorrow I will still be free, even if I must light a candle instead.
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I am America, and I am free.
Today I can fill up my [...]
