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Reading Evicted

Last week I read Evicted:Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond. Wow. I usually read novels in the evening to relax but I once I started reading this book I couldn’t read anything else until I finished it (in 3 evenings). The book recounts Desmond’s incredibly careful, painstaking ethnographic work following 8 […]

Recently visited London (again)

After a gap of about 15 years, I visited London, UK from August. 30 to Sept. 4 to attend the annual meeting of the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers. I spent Saturday exploring the city, mostly by foot because there were so many line closures on the Underground. I visited Covent Garden, saw the […]

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