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		<title>visiting Prague</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 12:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m briefly in Prague for a valuable symposium on &#8220;Democracy in the 21st&#160;Century: Challenges for an Open Society&#8221; organized by the Czech political research and reform group called Institute H21. I will share substantive ideas from the conversation when I&#8217;m home. In lieu of new comments about this beautiful city, I&#8217;ll share a link to [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=30236">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>from Andalusia to Cornwall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four sabbatical months in Europe are coming to a close this week. We spent three of those months in Granada, Spain, until our Schengen tourist visas ran out. Since then, we have mostly stayed in Penzance, Cornwall. It&#8217;s a study in contrasts. To name one: Andalusia is famous for fervent Catholic spirituality, although I&#8217;ve written [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=29473">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>reflections on modern Granada (Spain)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 12:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re leaving Granada tomorrow after living here for three months. My limited Spanish and a certain shyness have prevented me from learning a lot about contemporary life here. I feel better informed about the distant past than the present. Nevertheless, I&#8217;ll venture a few observations and hypotheses. For those who have not seen it, the [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=29222">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lorca’s rivers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 12:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Translating (or even privately reading) modern free verse in a language that has many cognates and grammatical similarities to English is partly a matter of choosing an English match for each word in the original and stringing those words together. You must accept the inevitable distortions, because the sounds and senses of the two languages [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=28706">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>sabbatical update</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2023 15:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in Granada, Spain, for three months, as part of a sabbatical. We&#8217;re living in a &#8220;carmen,&#8221; which is a &#8220;a type of urban housing&#8221; typical of two specific neighborhoods in this city, &#8220;with an attached green space, both garden and orchard, that constitutes an extension of the dwelling, according to the classic definition of [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=28574">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>cities in an era of migration</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Montreal) I&#8217;ve had opportunities to visit several cities since July and have enjoyed watching migrants in those spaces. In Cordoba, Spain, the cathedral was once one of the world&#8217;s great mosques. I watched many Muslim visitors, especially young Francophone Arabs. I wondered how they interpreted this space, with its Islamic heritage and its boldly Catholic [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=27324">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Notre-Dame is eminently restorable</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure others have made this point or are typing it this minute, but I will pile on &#8230; Notre-Dame de Paris is a stunning building but not a well-preserved medieval one. It has been through a lot, including the &#8230; <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=21231">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>you can go home again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 18:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Syracuse, NY) I&#8217;m in the city where I was born and raised but haven&#8217;t resided in 33 years.&#160; One result of this kind of visit is to make the intervening years fold away like a picture book put back on &#8230; <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=20739">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>changes in how we talk about cities</title>
		<link>http://peterlevine.ws/?p=19095</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a meeting at a community organization in Boston, we were using various terms to describe local issues and observing that those phrases would not be clear to the people we were talking about&#8211;especially new immigrants. That made me wonder &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=19095">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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		<title>changes in how we talk about cities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a meeting at a community organization in Boston, we were using various terms to describe local issues and observing that those phrases would not be clear to the people we were talking about&#8211;especially new immigrants. That made me wonder &#8230; <a href="http://peterlevine.ws/?p=19095">Continue reading <span>&#8594;</span></a>
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