Michael Dudley
Michael Dudley is the Community Outreach Librarian at the University of Winnipeg.
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With graduate degrees in city planning and library science, Michael Dudley is the Community Outreach Librarian at the University of Winnipeg.
New Books Depict Car Culture at a Turning Point
<p> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Crash-Course-American-Automobile-Industrys/dp/1400068630/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265641815&sr=1-1"><strong>Crash Course: </strong></a><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Crash-Course-American-Automobile-Industrys/dp/1400068630/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265641815&sr=1-1">The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster</a><br /> By Paul Ingrassia<br /> Random House, 306 pages, $32</strong> </p> <p> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Carjacked-Culture-Automobile-Effect-Lives/dp/0230618138/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265641921&sr=1-1"><strong>Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile</strong> </a><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Carjacked-Culture-Automobile-Effect-Lives/dp/0230618138/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265641921&sr=1-1">and its Effect on Our Lives</a><br /> By Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez<br /> Palgrave, 272 pages, $34</strong> </p> <p> Automobiles dominate our economies, our cities and our popular culture. As these new titles make abundantly apparent, they also tend to imbue their makers and owners with either delusions or arrogance that can lead to dangerously misguided decision-making, both behind the wheel and in corporate boardrooms.
Going Beyond the "Numbers Game"
Froma Harrop responds to Joel Kotkin's view that booming centers -- mostly in the Sunbelt -- represent the future of American urbanism.
Planning for "Dickensian Gloom"? Refuting Critics of Smart Growth (Again)
<span>It is well-known in planning circles that Smart Growth has come under attack by (mostly libertarian) think tanks and pundits hostile to any form of urban planning that doesn’t leave land use decisions up to the “magic” of the free market. While their reports may get a lot of press, a close reading of most of their rhetoric reveals that it is largely based on a selective use of data, fallacious argumentation and hyperbole.
Suburban Poverty Increasing: Report
A new Brookings Institute study shows that the recession has exacerbated conditions of poverty in America's suburbs, to the point where they hold the greatest proportion of the nation's poor.
How Should Port-au-Prince be Rebuilt?
With Haiti's capital city in ruins, and emergency response still underway, rebuilding efforts are a ways off. But the rebuilding following recent disasters may provide guidance, writes Mark MacKinnon.