Word: metropolitanism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dominated by the gravest economic and financial crisis in decades. But parts of this region continue to experience an economic boom mainly driven by recovery efforts related to Hurricane Katrina. Just last week, the University of New Orleans published a report estimating that 11,700 jobs were added across metropolitan New Orleans between the third quarters of 2007 and 2008, a 2.3% increase. Much of that growth came from the construction industry, which experienced a 6.2% gain in jobs driven by massive bridge, road and school projects. That compares with a 5.9% decline nationally. (See how New Orleans has changed...
...course, it'll take much more than a few weeks of populist outrage to challenge the purgatorial murk that defines India's politics as usual, as well as the grim injustices that shape its stratified society. But it is this Mumbai that shelters Dante's manuscript: a metropolitan home to all sorts of stories, still glittering with epic possibility for the thousands who flock here every year from all corners of this vast country, including the beggars and garbage collectors and tiffin carriers who continued with the many Sisyphean struggles of their lot in the days after the attacks. More...
...that they should plan for their future medical care. Of the 800 patients CHA had reached by Dec. 10, only six had indicated that they would leave the alliance for another healthcare provider, Bailey said. CHA is a public hospital system that has several locations in the northern Boston metropolitan area. Many of its services are aimed at serving low-income patients, thus making the alliance heavily reliant on state Medicaid funding. —Staff writer Bora Fezga can be reached bfezga@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Sarah J. Howland can be reached at showland@fas.harvard.edu...
...That success has drawn international admirers. Parlaying the benefits of innovation and research clusters into cleaning up inner city areas is "smart economically, and sustainably, since densely built cities use less energy and generate fewer greenhouse gas emissions," says Bruce Katz, director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Washington-based Brookings Institution. "The revival of older industrial cities in Europe has much to teach their counterparts...
...press-shy.Despite the legacy of her father, for whom the Kennedy School and a major campus thoroughfare are named, she spent her undergraduate career at Harvard much like any other student, living in the freshman dorms and even writing a few stories for The Crimson.After graduation, she worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she met her husband Edwin A. Schlossberg, and then received a law degree from Columbia.In recent years, Kennedy has been very involved with New York public schools, first running the Office of Strategic Partnerships for the city’s Department of Education from...