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City Layout Key to Predicting Riots

By Guest PostFebruary 26, 2013Politicscity layout, civil unrest, london riots, model, policing, predicting riots, riot, rioting, spread of riots

In the future police will be able to predict the spread of riots, and how they impact on cities, thanks to a new computer model. (more…)

Performance Recalls Faculty Member’s Years As One of China’s ‘Sent-down’ Youth

By Guest PostFebruary 12, 2011Politicscivil unrest, cultural revolution, democracy movement, intellectual leader, native china, urban youth

In 1968, when Su Wei left his family behind and voluntarily joined the millions of urban youth who were being sent by Chinese leader Mao Zedong into the countryside to work the land as part of a “re-education” movement, his spirit was nearly broken. (more…)