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		<title>Fan-taz-mic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the book Eat Pray Love, the author says that every city has a word that describes it.  For her, Rome’s word was sex (because of the sexy people, sexy clothes, sexy art, Venice, passion, etc, etc.). I agree that places and people can be summed up in one word. When I first came to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmopolitanurbanist.com/2010/09/04/fan-taz-mic/</link>
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		<title>What are the possibilities when building a community from scratch?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I got the opportunity to participate in the Naked Development Forum hosted by Serenbe and Kalu Yala.  The entire day was focused on exploring the different ways to answer the question: How does one build community? I attended a session led by Ed Everett (who is the city manager responsible for the awesomeness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmopolitanurbanist.com/2010/05/31/what-are-the-possibilities-when-building-a-community-from-scratch/</link>
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		<title>Community Takes All Kinds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had lunch last week with a friend from high school. He also works for state government, in a building a block from my building.  We decided to meet on the corner and walk to a nearby deli.  On the way to the deli, we were approached no less than 3 times by homeless men [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmopolitanurbanist.com/2010/05/25/community-takes-all-kinds/</link>
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		<title>Why I Carry Doritos Even Though I Don&#8217;t Eat Them</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once my homeless lady friend asked me for food instead of money I scoured my home in search of potential food items that we wouldn’t miss.  My family doesn’t have much money, so there isn’t much extra. I often buy those potato chip multipack with Lays, Fritos, Cheetoos, Sun Chips and Doritos. I noticed that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmopolitanurbanist.com/2010/05/13/why-i-carry-doritos-even-though-i-dont-eat-them/</link>
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		<title>Where Do The Homeless Go In The Winter?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past winter was one of the hardest that Atlanta had ever seen. During the flooding rains, icings, and snow and wind storms, I worried about my homeless lady friend. Weeks went by and I thought maybe she’d found a shelter and was no longer on the street. Eventually I saw her again, and I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmopolitanurbanist.com/2010/05/04/where-do-the-homeless-go-in-the-winter/</link>
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		<title>We All Should Be So Angry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I heard a radio clip of Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed getting angry during a board meeting. He and the board were discussing how to save money and balance the budget.  The mayor got angry because Board members were insinuating that he would wants reduce city employee pensions. But in the clip (which I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmopolitanurbanist.com/2010/04/28/we-all-should-be-so-angry/</link>
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		<title>My Friend, the Homeless Lady</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first started working in downtown Atlanta, on my drive to work, I noticed the tent cities that were under the overpasses.  While walking between state government buildings, I saw and was sometimes accosted by the downtown homeless. There are a couple of churches where half a dozen homeless men loiter on the front [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmopolitanurbanist.com/2010/04/27/my-friend-the-homeless-lady/</link>
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		<title>Homeless in the City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m surprised by the differences in the ways that homelessness and homeless people are treated. In the past year, I&#8217;ve become acutely aware of the visible homeless in the cities that I’m in. Over the past year, I’ve observed the way the homeless are treated in Atlanta, Nashville and San Francisco. In San Francisco, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmopolitanurbanist.com/2010/04/20/homeless-in-the-city/</link>
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		<title>Beware the Bitter Bureaucrat: A Cautionary Tale and a PSA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was in MPA School I had to complete an organizational blueprint for a public entity.  Because of my interest in community and economic development, my professor assigned me to a state agency whose mission is to “assist local governments with economic development, community development, growth management and downtown revitalization”. Even though I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmopolitanurbanist.com/2010/03/03/beware-the-bitter-bureaucrat-a-cautionary-tale-and-a-psa/</link>
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		<title>In Honor of World AIDS Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[World AIDS Day was yesterday and over the course of the day, I thought about how HIV/AIDS have affected my life. It wasn’t until today that I actually got a chance to get anything on paper. When I was in middle school my uncle, who lived with my family, started to go blind.  It started [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cosmopolitanurbanist.com/2009/12/02/in-honor-of-world-aids-day/</link>
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