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...Hank Dittmar, chairman of the Chicago-based CNU and CEO of the Prince of Wales' Foundation for the Built Environment, shared space is the nub of what Prince Charles had in mind in 1987 when he founded the experimental village of Poundbury on land that he owns in the English countryside. Architecturally, the village is often panned as a nostalgic exercise in faux-bucolic Englishness. But in prioritizing people over cars, says Dittmar, the winding streets and discreet signs used in Poundbury make it a model for high-density urban design. The bigger challenge, he says, is "retrofitting places that...
Though Davenport insisted that the Lampoon’s award had never used the theatrical society’s name, he did admit that the magazine may have been trading on the theatrical society’s prominence to land a big-time celebrity...
...Thaksin, who has said he will return to Thailand in April or May, is facing a court case stemming from an allegedly corrupt land sale while he was prime minister. (Thaksin has denied any wrongdoing.) He and 110 other members of his former political party, Thai Rak Thai, have also been banned from politics for five years for electoral fraud. Samak has vowed to amnesty them all, and disband the military-appointed committee investigating Thaksin on other corruption allegations...
...ethnic clashes have certainly exposed deep grievances over land and other resources. Much of the worst violence has occurred in the Rift Valley, where land ownership has always been politically sensitive. In the colonial era, the region's fertile farmland was reserved for British settlers. Britain sold it off to the newly independent government, which in turn parceled it out to members of the Kikuyu tribe, setting off a pattern of ethnic conflict in the Rift Valley that has persisted for much of Kenya's independent history. Many Kalenjins and others who had once lived there believed - rightly or wrongly...
Indeed, the fear was that the violence would begin to spiral out of control into a cycle of ethnic attacks as members of Kenya's different ethnic groups act on grievances they have harbored for decades over land and the perceived inequitable distribution of resources. That, in turn, could sink Kenya's economy, whose chief engines are horticulture, tourism and tea. All three industries have been crippled...