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...with the Swinging '60s well under way, the museum world was feeling a bit cramped and stodgy to Hoving. That was the year he left the Met to serve as parks commissioner for New York City's newly elected mayor, John V. Lindsay, a dashing liberal Republican (there used to be such things) who was bringing a bit of Kennedy-style panache to the place people would soon be calling Fun City, though usually with tongue in cheek. Hoving fit the new mood perfectly. At the time, the city's parks could be rundown and even sinister, especially at night...
...with expertise in design, urban planning, business strategy, real estate development, and public policy,” according to the letter. The committee will include Peter Tufano, senior associate dean for planning and university affairs at Harvard Business School, Bill Purcell, director of the Institute of Politics and former mayor of Nashville, TN, and Alex Krieger, chair of the department of urban planning and design at the Graduate School of Design...
...guided Work Team "with expertise in design, urban planning, business strategy, real estate development, and public policy." The committee will include Peter Tufano, the senior associate dean for Planning and University Affairs at Harvard Business School, Bill Purcell, the head of the Institute of Politics and the former mayor of Nashville, TN, and Alex Krieger, chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate school of Design...
...hear residents' concerns. Zuma himself has established a hotline to the presidency and in August gathered hundreds of school principals in Durban to answer their questions on reform. The same month, in the first of what he promises will be a series of surprise presidential inspections, he caught the mayor of the northern town of Balfour playing hooky. (See Jacob Zuma's profile in the 2008 TIME...
...municipality has begun destroying 88 homes in Silwan in order to make way for an archaeological park. Earlier this year, riots broke out in the Old City when an Islamist movement based among Israeli Arabs accused Israel of threatening the mosque. (See TIME's video "Jerusalem's New Secular Mayor...