Word: downtowners
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Where urban infrastructure is concerned, the government has taken great pains to make attending the Olympics a pleasant experience. Seoul's subway system was revamped in anticipation of some 340,000 foreign spectators; it will whisk visitors comfortably from their downtown hotels to event sites. Restaurants and hotels around the capital have been refurbished. About 100,000 Korean volunteers have signed up to serve as guides, translators and stadium workers. As this week's disturbances have painfully illustrated, the government is anxious about security. That concern will be heavily on display at the Games. Uniformed policemen and military counterterrorist squads...
Elsewhere in the country, companies have banded together to share the costs of providing day-care services to employees. A space in Rich's department store in downtown Atlanta serves the children of not only its own employees but also of workers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the First National Bank of Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific and the Atlanta Journal and Constitution newspapers...
...County is bracketed by office buildings and a huge shopping mall. A 31-story tower obliterates the view of trees and grass from her windows; its construction, still in progress, has sent clouds of dust and bursts of noise into her home. Laments Murphy: "This is like living in downtown Chicago...
...nearby cities. Not only jobs but also gourmet restaurants and chic stores are close at hand. As a result, people like Engineer Daniel Nee, a resident of Gwinnett County, Ga., 18 miles from Atlanta, commonly go six months or more without feeling any necessity to take their families downtown...
...near Detroit, has got 40% of all jobs created in Michigan since the 1982 recession. Tysons Corner, an unincorporated area of Fairfax County 13 miles from Washington, was once a sleepy crossroads with little more than a gas station; today it contains more office space than either Baltimore or downtown Miami. The Corporate Woods office complex in Overland Park, Kans., boasts 275 businesses and 5,000 jobs; built on 300 acres, it has room for more. "Corporate Woods is the fastest-growing commercial area in either state, Kansas or Missouri," says Planning Consultant Myles Schachter...