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Planet Ponzi, Mitch Feierstein.
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“Local real-estate marketer Bob Rennie has seen the trend play out in Vancouver. At Marine Gateway, a development on Marine Drive at south Cambie Street that sold out on opening day and offered more than 200 units under $270,000, 50 percent of buyers were female—a big jump from past projects. “Although we didn’t track demographics as diligently 10 years ago, I think that a safe estimate would be that the dial has moved from the 35-percent range to where it is today,” Rennie says. The main concern among female buyers is security, with many women opting for units above ground level and for buildings that require a pass card to access individual floors. “Of course, safety and convenience are factors,” Rennie says. Naturally, so is price.” —
“As filtered through condominium ownership, neoliberal ideologies are not freeing women from constraints — they are reinforcing patriarchal norms. This fresh look at urban revitalization exposes the notion of women’s emancipation through condominium ownership as a marketing ploy rather than a major shift in gender relations.”
Read chapters:
4) Securing Relations of Threat: The Intersection of Gender, Fear, and Capital
5) A Date with the Big City: Gendering the Myth of Urbanity
From the book “Sex and the Revitalized City” (Leslie Kern, UBC Press, 2010).
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Open-data project aims to ease the way for genomic research : Nature News & Comment -
Last summer, biologist Andrew Kasarskis was eager to help decipher the genetic origin of the Escherichia coli strain that infected roughly 4,000 people in Germany between May and July. But he knew it that might take days for the lawyers at his company — Pacific Biosciences of Menlo Park, California — to parse the agreements governing how his team could use data collected on the strain. Luckily, one team had released its data under a Creative Commons licence that allowed free use of the data, allowing Kasarskis and his colleagues to join the international research effort and publish their work1 without wasting time on legal wrangling.
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