Community as Urban PracticeCommunity is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme. Blokland argues that there has been too much focus on community as a stable construct, formed by durable relationships with kin, friends, social groups or neighbours. She draws attention to the non

its mystery and its misery

” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler

The role of jazz as a catalyst in rock

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all the women who have lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them

Fifty Shades of Grey

galvanizing essay The Fire Next Time—which gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement of the 1960s and still lights the way to understanding race in America today—along with three additional brilliant works of nonfiction by this seminal chronicler and analyst of culture

and stars paint stories across the sky

a memory from a time long ago

and using AI in ways that prioritize our collective values

Nine days before October 7

but the absence of pain or fear - is the highest goal of life