From Bicycling to a Broader Public Commons

Great fun to use stately old buildings for our World Bike Forum 6, #FMB6

 

From April 19-22 the annual World Bike Forum (this one was #6, hence the hashtag #FMB6) took place in Mexico City. I’ve become something of a fixture at these gatherings and happily so! I have made dozens of […]

April 24th, 2017 | Category: Critical Mass, My Writings and Appearances, Public Space, Travel report, Work and The Economy | Leave a comment

Ciudades que echan la mano

photo by Felipe Besne Navarro

Felicitaciones a los organizadores del Sexto Foro Mundial de Bicicletas en la Ciudad de México. Fue una gran idea adoptar el tema de “Ciudades hechas a mano” debido a la hermosa manera en que abre nuestra investigación en asuntos que van mucho más allá del simple ciclismo. Provocado […]

April 22nd, 2017 | Category: Critical Mass, My Writings and Appearances, Nowtopia, Public Space, Work and The Economy | Leave a comment

Gazing Ironically into the Cul-de-Sac of Radicalism

Though drawn in 1975 by Jean-Francois Batellier (and I met him on the street in France in 1982), this came to mind as our future under TrumpCare…

This is the text I wrote in preparation for giving a talk tonight at the exhibition “New Situationists” at the ProArts Gallery off Oscar Grant/Frank Ogawa […]

March 21st, 2017 | Category: General Musings, History, My Writings and Appearances, Public Space | One comment
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