October 17, 2006

> Creating Connections

Urblink

When: Thursday, October 19, 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Where: Club Soda, 235 E. Superior Street, Fort Wayne, IN
More info: Urblink home page

Businesses promoting diversity in the workplace, professionals looking for a hip networking environment, and students trying to make connections for future employment can now find what they need in one place.

Urblink is Fort Wayne’s only professional networking event focused on diversity and downtown. The monthly events will be held in Northeast Indiana’s urban core to help the community’s downtown revitalization efforts.

FREE ENTRY, FREE FOOD, and FREE ENTERTAINMENT will be provided at each event.

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August 30, 2006

> Creating Connections

Geek Dinner

A group of technology professionals and enthusiasts in Fort Wayne, Indiana are gathering for an initial event appropriately named: Geek Dinner. The first Geek Dinner will be a meet and greet happy hour. This gathering is for you if you have an interest in operating systems, databases, programming, web design, mashups, have a blog, and are obsessed with Flickr. The Geek Dinners will help define a greater presence of the Web and IT in Fort Wayne. This is an open invitation, please feel free to bring your colleagues and friends.
Where: Club Soda, 235 E Superior St, Fort Wayne, IN
When: Monday, October 2, 2006, 6PM - until ?

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August 10, 2006

> Learning from Elsewhere

The Next American City: Issue 11

The Next American City: Issue 11 cover artSuburbs - August 2006:

SUBURBS: Exurbanization and Gentrification: How the Two Patterns Have Been Linked Since the Beginning of Urban History
By Robert Bruegmann

Most conventional histories of postwar urban America focus on the decline of the central city, as neighborhoods emptied out, and the rise of the suburban periphery, as highways, factories…

PHILADELPHIA: The Cultural Contradictions of the Creative Age
By Daniel Brook

As I stood cramped into a rush hour MUNI bus inching down San Francisco’s Divisadero Street, I heard someone calling out, “Dan? Dan?” Considering I live in Philadelphia and my first name i…

PHILADELPHIA: Gambling on Philadelphia's Future: Can Casinos Fit into a Big City Downtown?
By Joanne Aitken, Harris Steinberg, and Elise Vider

Philadelphia doesn’t need to become the next Atlantic City. Even without casinos, Philadelphia has had plenty of success. Over the last ten years, this city of 1.5 million has experienced an urb…

REVIEW: Steven Malanga, The New New Left: How American Politics Works Today
By Mackenzie Baris

Some of the biggest battles in our cities in recent years have been fought over living wage laws, public funding for projects like stadiums and convention centers, and the privatization of city…

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> Making a Difference

Jane Jacobs Revisited

On finally reading The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By Karrie Jacobs

The mistake made by Jacobs’s detractors and acolytes alike is to regard her as a champion of stasis—to believe she was advocating the world’s cities be built as simulacra of the West Village circa 1960. Admirers and opponents have routinely taken her arguments for complexity and turned them into formulas.

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May 27, 2006

> Creating Connections

Chan Practice

ChanPractice.org promotes sharing the Buddhadharma and the practice of Chan (Zen), especially in Northeast Indiana and Fort Wayne. Visit ChanPractice.org or contact: Barry Wadsworth.

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