Newtopia | Issue #11 - June 2003: "Cities"

 

RENAISSANCE CHICAGO
by Charles Shaw

Chicago has come a long way since the days of the Stockyards, the '68 Convention, and "Da Bears!" Reinvented as a vibrant global metropolis, the great American city stands poised to become the new cultural nexus.

CITY: INVISIBLE?
by Peter Blackburn

Or, is visibility a civic possibility, opportunity, or necessity, in this U.S. of A.?

CITIES AND SLOWNESS
by Aaron McDonald

The idea of our rapid interconnection, of a globalization of urban building culture, is false. Sure, polemicists of globalized urban culture can find evidence for their arguments. Especially while shopping. Or perhaps mostly while shopping, as globalization is becoming a cliché for consumer choice.

THE NEXT AMERICAN CITY
by Adam Gordon

Notes on the Transformation of Metropolitan America.

CITIES OF THE WORLD
by Marcus Reichert

And the Impoverishment of Corporate Aesthetics.

THE VIGORS OF QUIETUDE
by Rajgopal Nidamboor

Exploring the metaphysics of noise versus silence.

FIND YOUR CITY- FIND YOURSELF A CITY TO LIVE IN
by Bryan Brickner, PhD

A brief journey.

STOWAWAYS AND STRAYAWAYS
by Akin Olatidoye

Lagos: the wildest city in Nigeria, and one of the five largest in the world.

ROME AND COPENHAGEN
by Donald Dewey

A study of two distinctly different European cities.

CALGARY
by Jim Martin

Canda's other big city.

THERE ARE NO CHILDREN IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD
by Shlomo Sher

Los Angeles is an enclave of the big city aspiring young.

DIVORCE IN THE CITY
by Brian Clardy, PhD

How the city heals by infusing new life into shattered dreams.

HUMBOLDT COUNTY HERB FORECAST
by Mr. Greg

Front-line intelligence from America's most costly and pointless war.

 

 

INTIFADA JOURNALS: A Voice From Jerusalem
An Exclusive Series for Newtopia Magazine by Henry Carse, with stunning images by Marcus Reichert

From the shattered streets of Israel and the Occupied Territories comes a vivid account of one man's anguish and determination to make sense of a conflict seemingly without end. Living at the very heart of East Jerusalem, Henry Carse, writer, practical theologian, scholar, and father of four children living amidst the mayhem, ventures out to engage with Israeli and Palestinian friends alike to starkly reveal the desperation and hope that thrive in that barren place.

IX. - HOME IN ANATA

COVERING THE CREATIVE ECONOMY
An Exclusive Series for Newtopia Magazine by Tom Tresser

I. - INTRODUCTION

 

 

DIARY OF A MADMOM
by Catherine O'Sullivan

Newtopia's resident mother hen chimes in on Motherhood and its role in the New World Order.

LETTERS FROM THE UK
by Cameron Carter

A monthly musing from our boys across the pond at CODE UNCUT MAGAZINE

 

CAMP IN JENIN
by Corey Habbas
LUNCH
by Arthur Barret
The JAMFs, CARL'S DAUGHTER and INVESTIGATION
by Jim McCurry
CLONE-A-POEM
by RD McManes

 

COMFORT CHANGE
by Rajgopal Nidamboor

A Review of Michael Gelb's Thinking for a Change.

VOICES OF DECLINE
by Andrew Stevens

The Postwar Fate of U.S. Cities by Robert A. Beauregard

ROOTS
by Asim Rizki

Fiction by Asim Rizki

 

CINEMASHRINK: MATRIX RELOADED
by Dr. Jane Alexander Stewart

 

INDIVISIBLE CITIES
by Caldonia Curry
War Profiteers Playing Deck Spoofs Iraq's Most Wanted
by Jeff Conant