Word: metropolises
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Among urban cognoscenti, Los Angeles has long been an object of scorn. Many critics for years ridiculed the sprawling metropolis as a gaggle of suburbs "in search of a city." They had a point. The core of the city not only failed to share in Southern California's explosive...
Statistics cannot express the convulsive reality. The American metropolis seems constantly to be tearing itself down and building itself up again. The din and confusion of building has become a built-in part of the city's confusion. Everywhere old towers crumble, excavations appear, followed by the quick climb of...
THE soldier of the cities is the cop, I his front line the American ghetto. Harlem, Watts, Roxbury, Hough, Hunters Point, the South Side, Dixie Hills, Bedford-Stuyvesant: these are the battlegrounds whose names are inscribed in rubble and resentment and fear of worse conflagrations to come. Already this year...
Detroit's International Afro-American Museum, organized by Dr. Charles H. Wright, a black gynecologist, is a trailer that tours schools. Among its exhibits: African statues from the collection of G. Mennen Williams, a clay model of the 14th century West African metropolis of Timbuctoo, and exhibits on the...
Died. Shinzo Hamai, 62, four-term mayor of Hiroshima (1947-1952, 1959-1967) and the biggest single force in the city's rebirth; of a heart attack; in Hiroshima. Himself a survivor of the atomic holocaust, Hamai laid out a new metropolis with broad avenues and plazas, was so...