Thriving Cities Featured Again on Milwaukee Public Radio
Thriving Cities investigator, David Flowers, gets featured again by Milwaukee Public Radio.
California's Flyover Country
Though one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world, the San Joaquin Valley is now one of the poorest and poorly educated places in the country. Why California’s flyover country's best hope may be to invest in the education of its children.
Brother Rat?
What happens if we become willing to trade in an understanding of a rich and meaning-laden feature of our nature for, well, something we can share with a rat.
Snapshots of City Life: Parking Lots, Urban Farming, and Other Stories
A collection of online stories that highlight and examine different facets of city life.
Faith in the City: Part III, City Soul—An Interview with Cardus' Milton Friesen
Religious institutions in their varied forms are to the social fabric of cities what swamps and bogs are to the ecological landscape. Cities that are serious about attending to the various social challenges in their communities cannot afford to be snobbish about a scarce resource.
Are We Losing the Attention War?
In its upcoming summer issue, The Hedgehog Review has invited contributors to examine aspects of our attention disorder that seldom receive careful consideration. As they show, attention may be far less a technological or neurobiological problem than a cultural, ethical, and philosophical one, bound up with our deepest ideas about the human person and the purposes of our lives.
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