A Little Free Library in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle. / Creative Commons From seed banks to free food pantries, the little library movement is taking off in neighborhoods across the country. By J. Gabriel Ware / 09.27.2017 1. Seed library Audrey Barbakoff and other members of her community wanted a place for people to[…]
Map labeled “America with those known parts in that unknowne worlde both people and manner of buildings,” 1631, John Speed, Abraham Goos, and George Humble. London: Are to be sold in Pops-head Alley against the Exchange by G. Humble. Digital image courtesy of Boston Public Library, Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection A primer for[…]
Ignatius Donnelly, ca. 1880 / Wikimedia Commons The destruction of Atlantis, cataclysmic comets, and a Manhattan tower made entirely from concrete and corpse — Carl Abbott on the life and work of a Minnesotan writer, and failed politician, with a mind primed for catastrophe. By Dr. Carl Abbott / 09.27.2017 Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies[…]
Interbau exhibition in Berlin, July 1957. Photo: Willy Pragher. Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Staatsarchiv Freiburg Berlin’s east-west split during the Cold War drove ideologically motivated architecture, from socialist apartment blocks to prestige landmarks. By Emily Pugh / 09.18.2017 Digital Humanities Specialist Historian of Postwar German Architecture This summer the Getty Research Institute exhibition Berlin/LA: Spaces for Music[…]
Jeremy Bentham By Dr. Garth Kemerling / 11.12.2011 Professor of Philosophy Capella University Philosophy Pages Utilitarianism At the outset of the nineteenth century, an influential group of British thinkers developed a set of basic principles for addressing social problems.Extrapolating from Hume’s emphasis on the natural human interest in utility, reformer Jeremy Bentham proposed a straightforward quantification of morality by reference to utilitarian outcomes.[…]