Word: urban
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Stanton Professor of Urban Policy and Planning Alan A. Altshuler, who completed a two and a half year term as academic dean this summer, says the campaign efforts slowed down somewhat after Carnesale became provost...
...though. Hurricanes might not be more frequent in a hotter world, but they could be more intense. The upper limit on wind velocities should increase, M.I.T. atmospheric scientist Kerry Eman uel calculates, perhaps as much as 40 m.p.h. over their current top speed of about 180. And while major urban centers won't be battered by winds at the top of the range any more than they are today, there would be a rise in potential danger...
...says Karen Burka, an electronic-marketing analyst at media consultant SIMBA Information. "But now they want to know how you make money selling a $1.59 bottle of dish detergent on the World Wide Web." There may be better ways to make 'zines pay. Kyle Shannon, who started Urban Desires with some friends in his Brooklyn living room, believes that within the next few years, people will be willing to pay small amounts of money--"like a nickel an article," he suggests--to read their favorite online publications. All it would take to survive is thousands of people a day, each...
Just when Detroit was beginning to beat its reputation as an urban war zone, a flurry of gruesome news reports put the city right back in the headlines. Deletha Word, a 33-year-old mother of one, jumped from a bridge to her death following an angry altercation that occurred when her car hit another vehicle. Early accounts said Martell Welch, the driver of the other car, stripped Word naked on the Douglas MacArthur Bridge, smashed her car window with a tire iron and then forced her to jump while dozens of people stood by cheering. Prosecutors now call these...
Though people talk about "urbanization" as the process that ushered in modern ills, many urban neighborhoods at mid-century were in fact fairly communal; it's hard to walk into a Brooklyn brownstone day after day without bumping into neighbors. It was suburbanization that brought the combination of transience and residential isolation that leaves many people feeling a bit alone in their own neighborhoods. (These days, thanks to electric garage-door openers, you can drive straight into your house, never risking contact with a neighbor...