Entries from December 2006



Imagine a Learning City where everything - literally everything - is turned into an opportunity to teach something new and all day, everyday is considered a teachable moment.

Kevin Crowley is director of the University of Pittsburgh Center for Learning in Out of School Environments, and he and his… more

Can the very thing that plagues a city also be the solution to its problems? Steven Johnson may have that answer. He is the author of the new book The Ghost Map that details the mystery of the Broad Street cholera outbreak in London in September of 1854. Stevenmore

The way we live is influenced by factors we are often only barely aware of. Take land use, for instance. Few of us think about us. Fewer still understand how it works and how it is influenced.

But that's not the case with our guests this week. Robert Puentes is… more