Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
“Where is Chomp Chomp?”
With regards to the foreign workers housing saga, click here to listen to the views of the Residents’ Action Committee Expelling Extremely Smelly Trespassers, or RACEES for short.
Courtesy of www.mrbrown.com
Mind your own backyard
The New York Times ran an article about how urban New Yorkers transformed their own backyards into personal sanctuaries, each distinct and flavourful.
Backyard Life, Todd Heisler/The New York Times
Three different worlds, three different summer days and evenings, but all unfolding in that most counterintuitive of New York spaces, the backyard. Screened from all but the envious eyes of aerial neighbors, New Yorkers with backyards awaken to birdsong and the occasional rabbit and entertain by the light of tiki torches. They swim in their own pools (even if they have to inflate them first), mow minuscule plots of Kentucky bluegrass, stage rock concerts, worship in revival tents, sun-dry the laundry on clotheslines, and barbecue jerk chicken in rusted oil-barrel smokers, or sirloin steak on Ultra Premium TruSear Viking grills.
Rest of story here. Click here for multimedia slideshow. One of the interviewees made a very poignant remark when asked about her lawn. She said: “This makes New York possible for me.”
Snippets
guardian.co.uk, 2008
Hurtling towards No Town Britain:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/joepublic/2008/sep/03/communities
Seeking Law and Order on a Crowded Playground:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/nyregion/thecity/31skat.html?ref=thecity
Everyone Comes to McCarren Park:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/08/22/nyregion/082408-Mccarren_index.html [photo] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/nyregion/thecity/24mcca.html [article]
Positive occupation:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/aug/27/housing.communities
Lost in the tunnels of bureaucracy:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/joepublic/2008/aug/26/housing.socialexclusion
