Urbanists learn how a city works through intimate contact with it.
Experience, observation, common sense, and human value are fundamental to an urbanist's view.
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Roberta Brandes Grantz, Living Cities
Capture – Explore – Rethink – Discover
• Capture the essence of the urban experience
Explore the passion, pathos, excitement, pain, fear — the
emotions
• Rethink our perceptions of the urban experience
through the element of surprise
• Discover new paradigms of potential within the urban
experience
Through…
• Film
• Video
• Word
• Art
• Music
• Performance
• Wandersmämmer Workshops
Learn more about our unconventional thinking,
read the musing of a modern day flâneur,
check out the photography, see what we are currently up to,
project-wise, explore
opportunities
for involvement, send us an email or network with us. Become a MySpace friend.
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What's New?
We are proud of our brand new website and invite you to check out each of its pages.
Urban Paradoxes wants to hear your thoughts on, and examples of, community. We will be posting them after July 15 at Urban Paradoxes: Community.
Please go to link to Flaneur, read "Can Community be defined?" and then send us your thoughts.
If you would, please pass this bulletin on to others whom you network with. The more voices, the better. Thanks
(Instructions for submissions can be found at Flaneur)
Updated: Monday, July 07, 2008
 
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Mad-Cap – High Energy – Raw Vision
Urban Paradoxes is mad-cap, high-energy, raw-vision—
Raw-vision that sees things in the urban experience that others don't.
It is this madcap perception that drives us to challenge conventional thinking, promote collabor-ation,
and celebrate the urban experience in adrenalin popping, off-the-wall ways.
Ultimately it is about fostering shared neighborhood vision for healing and revitalization.
Urban Paradoxes operates out of an unconven-
tional mind fusion of visionary creatives for whom the
proverbial box is irrelevant. To put it in more concrete terms,
Urban Paradoxes is an uncon-
ventional consortium that provides a fertile context for the fermentation of
visionary conceptualization, thought-provoking documentaries, and spectac-
ular, high adrenaline, interactive.
It serves a lively incubator for a highly creative fusing of art, culture, and urban thought with
the urban experience in ways that make us reconsider our perceptions and definitions of "urban"
not merely for the sake of changed perception, but for sake of urban healing and revitalization.
(Urban Paradoxes has) many interesting
insights and a voice that needs to be heard
- Tom Charek, I.D.V, Inc.
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Please join Urban Paradoxes in conserving energy.
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