Month: October 2022

Inadequate social housing schemes turn poor families into slum dwellers

TUNDE AJAJA examines how inadequate provision of social housing is widening spread of slums across Nigeria In his late 70’s, living in a decent apartment still remains a luxury Elder Abiodun Ajimuda craves daily. For 23 years, the septuagenarian, his wife and three children lived in a flood-prone shanty at Otto, a slum community in …

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Review: Construction Simulator – Movies Games and Tech

– Advertisement – Big machines, loud noises, and a job well done get my juices flowing. As such, I probably should work in the construction field. However, I don’t, so I need to scratch these urges in a virtual world. Accordingly, when I saw Construction Simulator advertised, I jumped at the chance. Developed by Weltenbauer and published by Astragon …

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Monthly Review | New York: Forest of Symbols

New York has an office space problem, a glut. It also has a retail store problem: empty units standing out like missing teeth. Those gaps are everywhere in town, especially in Manhattan, glaring cavities. In many cases, empty stores are directly related to empty offices. Workers no longer in the workplace spell shuttered coffee shops, …

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4 Predictions for Denver’s (Cooling-Off?) Real Estate Market

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Sign up today! It’s no secret that the Denver real estate market has been hot, hot, hot for years now. So, when we heard rumblings of cooling, we asked real estate agents Stuart Crowell and Delroy Gill of LIV …

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Miranda Cullen’s Littleton Home Is Filled With “Wow” Moments

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Sign up today! I am not color- or pattern-averse, as you can probably tell,” laughs Denver interior designer Miranda Cullen, describing the ultra-eclectic decor inside her newly constructed Littleton home. “If a piece speaks to me, I find a …

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Live opera returns with Turandot – Manila Bulletin

It takes a village to mount grand opera so a village will mount this Puccini classic at the CCP in December DAUGHTER OF TURAN The story of Turandot revolves around Prince Calaf, who falls in love with the cold Princess Turandot and must solve three riddles to obtain her hand in marriage After more than …

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SCI-ARc professors resign after changes to internship policies

The only news you need to know this week is that Lizzo played President Madison’s 200-year-old crystal flute — and twerked while she did it. OK, maybe it’s not the only news. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, art and design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the rest of the week’s essential arts news: A …

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‘Mansion tax’ would raise money for LA housing. Bass and Caruso don’t support it | Politics

LOS ANGELES — Rep. Karen Bass and Rick Caruso have each put forward expensive plans for expanding interim and permanent housing for homeless people, but the Los Angeles mayoral candidates have offered few specifics about how they would pay for them. One possible way to fund these plans is a ballot measure going before city …

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