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Development: How should we aim to define it, what are its problems, and how do we solve them?
A final paper I wrote for my development and globalization class at UC Berkeley. Question 1: Defining Development Development should always remain rooted within an empowerment of collective freedoms and social equity that sparks new visions and definitions of economic growth. Centering development on freedom is imperative because it gives direct agency to people who…
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space or place? how do neo-liberal frameworks fracture our streetscapes?
a quick examination of Los Angeles and São Paulo and their polarizing effect on urban space. Our built environments can make or break us. They shape us, and we shape them. Dualism is rooted in the associations we create as humans and the meanings we attach to the places we inherit. We all know this…