Word: neighborhooding
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Other big American cities have been plagued 'with similar incidents. One roving Chicago gang, the Simon City Royals, based in the city's white middle-class Avondale neighborhood, had been tied to as many as 150 robberies last spring in more than a score of suburban towns. Using six stolen four-wheel-drive vehicles, gang members pulled up to houses, emptied them of jewelry, stereos and VCRS, then sold the stolen items through a tavern owner. After 16 of the gang's members were arrested, Chicago Police Sergeant John Nalepa said, "It was the first time I'd seen anything...
Less than a month after they moved into their tidy brick row house in Elm-wood, a white working-class neighborhood in the southwest section of the City of Brotherly Love, Williams and Bloxom, who are black and unmarried, decided to move out. Said Bloxom: "We can't live in a neighborhood where my child is scared to come in the house." Williams, a shift supervisor at a fast-food restaurant who had bought the $21,000 home in early November from the Veterans Administration with $500 down, said he was stunned that anyone could be so vilified...
...white enclave hemmed in by black neighborhoods, Elmwood has long been plagued by racial tensions. Angry whites there have accused real estate brokers of blockbusting, an old and devious practice of moving black families into a white neighborhood to frighten residents into selling at rock-bottom prices...
Nonetheless, when Architect Frank Gehry was commissioned to design a campus for the Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, he had little direct formal precedent. Who knew how a downtown Roman Catholic campus in California was supposed to look? The small site is in a raggedy neighborhood; the budget was not great ($4.8 million); students and faculty yearned for a physical sense of community. Gehry's solution is a small miracle. Using his customary sorts of raw materials--galvanized steel, plywood and stucco--he has virtually invented a new form of late-20th century urban classicism, simultaneously gritty and dignified...
...fashionable neighborhood of Zugliget, overlooking downtown Budapest, the drabness of Communism seems a world away. Sleek, modern villas nestle beside Italianate mansions along the quiet, winding streets. Well-coiffed women in fur coats promenade upon the snow-dusted sidewalks. The district that housed many of Hungary's pre war magnates now shelters a different breed of plutocrat: the entrepreneurs who have prospered under the country's unique brand of "goulash Communism...