Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Conference organizer Alex Krieger, chair of the Department of Urban Planning at the GSD, offered a critique of the New Urbanism movement...
...Urbanism, a philosophy of urban planning that has emerged in recent decades as an alternative to suburban sprawl, advocates denser housing, mixed commercial and residential areas, pedestrian friendliness and viable city centers...
...three-day conference, titled "Exploring (New) Urbanism," addressed the future of the American city. Panels of academics, professional architects and designers, journalists, government figures and developers discussed urban sprawl, livable communities and growth planning...
...should focus our energies and resources more on supporting the renewed interest in the American city than on building 'new' urban developments on [undeveloped] outskirts," he said...
...folk always seem to have eccentric little possessions, and Mr. Christian left behind a humdinger in his safe--an eight millimeter film that shows a teenage girl being brutally murdered. Mrs. Christian wants Wells to determine whether the film is an elaborate fake or a piece of "snuff"--the urban legend term for films that show actual murders. Wells agrees to take the case, and his investigation pulls him into the twisted underworld of hard-core pornography and bondage films. He soon discovers the hard way that it's a world that's easy to enter but not so easy...