Quoted: Across the countryside of this nation on the heel of the Arabian Peninsula, the pumps and drills roar. Wildcatters bore as much as 1,000 feet into the earth and draw out the valuable liquid. They pump it into tankers and haul it away to sell to the highest bidder.

Jože Plečnik exhibition on through the end of August.

Quoted: Wednesday, 14 May 2008 - Sunday, 31 August 2008
Brussels, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Kind of tough to navigate this site, but rewarding images and info.

Quoted: Jože Plečnik`s Virtual Museum, image collection, interactive maps, searchable database of Plečnik`s work, articles, interviews. Bibliography, biography, special gift collection, downloads and more.

Quoted: The trouble is that the fighting is unlikely to end as long as the Taliban can finance themselves through drugs — and as long as the Kabul government is dependent on opium to sustain its own hold on power.

Quoted: Norman T. Uphoff is leading an inconspicuous revolution centered on solving the global food crisis.

Quoted: World's fastest growing cities and urban areas: 1 to 100

Quoted: The Making of Global City Regions traces the emergence of each city in the global economy and examines the link between the dynamics of globalization and changing urban governances. The contributors describe how metropolitan leaders deal with the twin phenomena of globalization and the devolution of the state as they adjust to their city's new emerging role in the global system.

Quoted: The past is not just, as has been famously said, another country with foreign customs: it is a contested and colonized terrain. Indigenous histories have been expropriated, eclipsed, sometimes even wholly eradicated, in the service of imperialist aims buttressed by a distinctly western philosophy of history. Guha offers a critique of such historiography by taking issue with the Hegelian concept of world-history.