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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Ask About the Preservation of Coney Island
Ask About the Preservation of Coney Island
A One-Man Help Center for City’s Pakistanis
From the Daily News, 1995:
It was late Saturday night when detectives called in search of a friend or family members who could help identify the badly charred body of a man killed in a fire on Gravesend Neck Road. But it didn’t matter to Asghar Choudhri, who was nearly asleep when the telephone rang, that [...]
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Shattered community of Brooklyn, New York
On December 8, 2004, the American Civil Liberties Union released a new report :
“Worlds Apart: How Deporting Immigrants After September 11 Tore Families Apart and Shattered Communities,” – documenting the devastating effects that the Bush administration’s “anti-terrorism” policies have had on immigrant families and communities.
The report also enumerated impact of these policies on [...]
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What’s Wrong with Ethnic Profiling?
James A. Goldston, executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative, discusses Ethnic Profiling:
Several years ago, as terrorism, immigration, and unrest in suburban Paris were at the top of the news in France, a French police officer confided to a researcher: “If you consider different levels of trafficking, it is obviously done by blacks and [...]
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Identity/Design
Graphic Design plays an intricate role in the formation of identity. The evolution and creation of a proprietary image defines the extension of a program and the distinctiveness of a building or property.
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When advertising meets surveillance
From the New Scientist:
With electronic billboards, processing power cameras and other sensors becoming ever cheaper, it’s become possible to manufacture products that allow web-like targeting in the real world.
For example, a system developed by Singapore’s research agency lets advertising screens detect the genders of passers-by: it will soon be able to tell how old they [...]
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Divided Cities
From the Lebbeus Woods foreword to Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia:
…each emerges from a unique historical background, belonging to a quite particular and localized set of cultural conditions. Yet, each shares with the others a common set of existential factors, belonging to what we might call an emerging global condition.
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Pakistan Paper in New York in Peril Over Coverage
After publishing articles that some people in the local Pakistani community didn’t agree with — including a column by the president of the American Jewish Congress — the editor of an Urdu-language newspaper based in Queens said he has been dealing with something he thought he left behind 20 years ago when he sought political [...]
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A Plan for Coney Island – NYTimes.com