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By CitySlikr in All Fired Up In The Big Smoke
My Endorsement For Mayor: HiMY SYeD.
He calls himself The Peoples’ Mayor. It is not empty campaign rhetoric. As Mr. SYeD correctly points out, this race has been all about things. Tax cuts, subways and gravy trains. Where are the people?
Semantics, you say? A little, perhaps. But our front running candidates have all been talking about what they are going to do for people, to people. HiMY SYeD talks about what he’ll do with people. Civic engagement sits at …
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Brazil • City Hall • curitiba • David Crombie • Elections 2010 • George Smitherman • HiMY SYeD • Jaime Lerner • Jeb Brugmann • John Sewell • Mario Cuomo • mayor • Municipal Politics • Politics • Press coverage • Race 4 Mayor • Toronto • Welcome To The Urban Revolution
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From All Fired Up In The Big Smoke
This one’s mine.
My colleagues here at All Fired Up in the Big Smoke are too compromised. Too caught up in the race. Too waist deep into the mindset of strategic voting and settling for A.B.F.
I am an old hippie. It’s not a label I shun. In fact, I embrace it.
As an old hippie, I retain a mighty mistrust of institutions, especially those ones that influence us greatly but seem impervious to our presence. Those we can only ignore as …
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ArtsVote • Better Ballots • Brazil • City Building • City Hall • curitiba • Elections 2010 • George Smitherman • Jaime Lerner • Joe Pantalone • mayor • Municipal Politics • Politics • Press coverage • Race 4 Mayor • Rob Ford • Rocco Achampong • Rocco Rossi • Sarah Thomson • Toronto • Toronto City Summit Alliance
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It is the first day of the World Urban Forum. 6,000 people were expected. 8,000 registered. Even more are here.
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cities • curitiba • day one • jane jacobs • neighbourhoods • nepal • public space • slums • urban decay • urban growth • vancouver • World Urban Forum • wuf3
