I Have a Dream: 45 Years Later

As is my wont and tradition, here is Martin Luther King Jr’s I Have a Dream speech, made 45 years to the day; the day Barack Obama will officially accept the Democratic Presidential nomination.

No SUPERTRAIN to Pittsburg

Amtrak Pennsylvanian Map
Pennsylvanian
9h 15m

  1. New York – Penn Station, NY
  2. Newark, NJ
  3. Princeton Junction, NJ
  4. Trenton, NJ
  5. Philadelphia, PA
  6. Paoli, PA
  7. Lancaster, PA
  8. Elizabethtown, PA
  9. Harrisburg, PA
  10. Lewistown, PA
  11. Huntingdon, PA
  12. Tyrone, PA
  13. Altoona, PA
  14. Johnstown, PA
  15. Latrobe, PA
  16. Greensburg, PA
  17. Pittsburgh, PA

Joe Biden Name-Checks the SUPERTRAIN

Almost every single night, I take the train home to Wilmington, Delaware, sometimes very late. As I sit there in my seat and I look out that window, I see those flickering lights of the homes that pass by, I can almost hear the conversation they’re having at their kitchen tables after they put their kids to bed.
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But I profoundly disagree with the direction John wants to take this country, from Afghanistan to Iraq, from Amtrak to veterans.

Transcript: Sen. Joe Biden’s acceptance speech.
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Country Proud

I am incredibly fucking proud of our country tonight.

To stray to a fully partisan topic: congratulations to Barak Obama for becoming the first African-American to win a major-party Presidential nomination.

MONU #9 – Exotic Urbanism

MONU 9 - Exotic Urbanism

In this issue we have taken the deliberate risk of making ourselves look ridiculous by focusing its theme on “the exotic”, which is often seen as some sort of worn out, utterly out of date topic, immediately evoking images of colonialism and imperialism. But what fascinated us right from the beginning, since this topic idea of exotic urbanism popped up in our minds, is – without any irony – the opportunity to shift the perception towards global urban phenomena, into a direction that does not necessarily focus on the question how cities more and more become the same through their global battle and competition to attract more urban assets, but how they can actually become more different despite an ever – expanding exchange and an increasingly accelerating process of interaction. On that question this issue of MONU provides a magnificent collection of exuberant essays and projects.

MONU #9 – Exotic Urbanism