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Art is rarely imagined as a strategic approach in the design of the future city. The purpose here is to offer a perspective on future cities that resides at the intersection of art and the practice of upcycling. I dub this perspective ‘Tache with Trash’, offering an artistic design for busy locales based on transforming recyclable waste into a vibrant spectrum of colours. Applicable in places like shopping malls, campuses and convention centres, I envision individuals disposing of trash in a shredding machine that injects those fragments into transparent containers, such as glass ornaments and glass wall panels. Disposing of recyclable trash becomes like dabbing a tache (stain, spot, blob) of pigment on an artwork. Rooted in the theoretical framework of ‘envisioning the future’, this perspective is inspired by the ‘junk art’ genre and aims to integrate communal art with sustainable upcycling. The benefits of the perspective include enhancing social interaction on sustainability, serving as a tool for younger generations’ sustainability education, providing a platform for local artists and assisting crowded centres with economization.

An affectionate satire of the culture of self-indulgence, The Final Days of Great American Shopping exposes the American obsessions with money, mass marketing, and material objects. In Belladonna, a gated subdivision in upstate South Carolina, readers meet acolorful cast of characters doing their best to buy happiness in a series of sixteen closely linked stories from the past, present, and future. Whether speed dating, test driving cars, upsizing to dream houses, flying helicopters, or lusting after designer shoes, these small-town spenders have good intentions that often go hilariously awry as they search for emotional and spiritual comfort. Gilbert Allen is a master at character development and the individuals in this collection are no exception. Among them are the childless, emotionally distant couple Butler and Marjory Breedlove; the harried appliance salesman John Beegle and his precocious, pole-dancing daughter Alison; and the one-handed soccer wunderkind Amy Knobloch. Also featured are Ted Dickey the mastermind of the Mental Defectives self-help book series and the undefeated Speed Dating Champion of the World; Jimmy Scheetz, the pragmatic philanthropist behind Ecumenical Bedding; Ruthella Anderson, a retired first-grade teacher addicted to Star Trek and to extreme couponing; and the mysterious Gabriella, an aging Italian beauty who presides over Doumi Shoes. Arranged chronologically, the stories span nearly a century. While most are set in the recent past or in the immediate future, the book’s title story is set in 2084. It depicts a dystopian shopping mall worthy of George Orwell, John Cheever, or Flannery O’Connor, and raises the question, “Can America survive international terrorism, ecological apocalypse, and demographic disaster to morph triumphantly into the USAARP?\"

This article draws upon the utopian studies literature to integrate two strands of contemporary consumer research, the study of place and space and the analysis of consumer/marketer relations. Based on a longitudinal study of a festival shopping mall, we provide an emergent theory of how the utopian marketplace is experienced, a theory that hinges around three interlinked conceptual categories: sensing displace, creating playspace, and performing artscape, which are subverted by the center management’s maladroit refreshment of the retail offer. The relevance of this theorization for place‐based scholarship, together with its implications for researchers of consumer/marketer relations, is also discussed.

This article provides a method of analyzing hyperlinks in hypertext fiction. It begins by showing that hyperlinks in hypertext work associatively. It then argues that schema theory can be used to analyze the ways in which readers approach hypertext reading as well as how links function in hypertext fiction. The approach is profiled via an analysis of external links in a Web-based fiction, 10:01 by Lance Olsen and Tim Guthrie. It shows that links are used to provide an ideological context to the narrative as well as forging a relationship between the fictional and actual world. The article ends by suggesting that schema theory could be used to analyze links in other hypertext fictions as well as informational hypertexts.

On the day I am trying to reckon with the loss of Gygax, the news is made public that I am leaving this, my current job, a good job with good people, for another job, which will also presumably have good people. The body is already quavering, contemplating giving up my house, this city, this skyline, this weather, and this, my native state, for something else with scorpions and desert. As I work on generating this bit of prose, faculty stop by my office to mock-accuse me for leaving, and to congratulate me. It is a mix. Their emotions, mine. I have loved this office, with its ravine view, and humming fan amid the silence, and green technology. This borders on an elegy for this job, this former iteration of Monson, which will be left behind and vacated like this space, like my parents' former houses, one after another, as we moved from place to place (to Saudi Arabia and away)-and an elegy for my students, whom I have loved also in my way. But elegy is grandiose. I am becoming maudlin. It is too much. I move close and I push away.

Why is everyone looking at us, Mom? Dimitris asked. Because at this time of day most kids are at day care. Why do you always buy him a sweet? Since he never eats it. Translation from the Greek By Karen Emmerich Copyright © 2010 By Amanda Michalopoulou Karen Emmerich's recent translations from Greek include Margarita Karapanou's Rien Ne Va Plus, Ersi Sotiropoulos's Landscape with Dog and Other Stories, Amanda Michalopoulou's I'd Like, and Miltos Sachtouris's Poems (1945-1971), which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.

A Handful of Dust, the first of Evelyn Waugh's novels to be serialized, marks the beginning of a new phase in Waugh's work; he claimed it dealt \"with normal people instead of eccentrics.\" Largely critically lauded in Britain at the time of its first publication, A Handful of Dust not only deals with \"normal people,\" but also overtly places itself within a more obviously serious literary tradition than Waugh's previous work might have suggested to readers at the time. From its titular quotation from The Waste Land, to its preoccupation with Dickens, and obvious references to Heart of Darkness, Waugh's \"good taste book\" was also his first fully adult novel, and the first that appears consciously to consider its own potential place in the tradition of English literature. Here, Flanery discusses the serialization of A Handful of Dust.

The relationship between literal and spatial discourse and spatial symbolism underpins the analysis of urbanism of Dubai, United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). Are Imarati, or U.A.E. nationals (muwatinun), being swept up in historical forces too powerful for them to understand? Are so-called \"modal\" types of urban development exacerbating that process? It is argued that Utopian discourse and symbolism form the link between historical and urban experience, mediating rapid social and cultural change. In this, the first part of a larger critique of the utopian self-representation of state-corporate complexes, I analyze how politics are aestheticized and made emotionally persuasive.