Word: urban
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Bush has invested more than campaign time in black neighborhoods. In 1996, with T. Willard Fair, president of the Urban League of Greater Miami, he set up one of the state's first charter schools in Liberty City. The elementary school, entering its second year, is the centerpiece of Bush's sweeping education proposals for the state. "I think his experiences with Liberty City really shaped his thinking," says Beryl Roberts-Burke, head of the Florida Conference of Black State Legislators. Says Bush: "I would walk into the class, and a kid would come up to me and touch...
...more untidy neighborhoods. People would live in hygienic, regimented high-rise towers, set far apart in a parklike landscape. This rational city would be separated into discrete zones for working, living and leisure. Above all, everything should be done on a big scale--big buildings, big open spaces, big urban highways...
...called it La Ville Radieuse, the Radiant City. Despite the poetic title, his urban vision was authoritarian, inflexible and simplistic. Wherever it was tried--in Chandigarh by Le Corbusier himself or in Brasilia by his followers--it failed. Standardization proved inhuman and disorienting. The open spaces were inhospitable; the bureaucratically imposed plan, socially destructive. In the U.S., the Radiant City took the form of vast urban-renewal schemes and regimented public housing projects that damaged the urban fabric beyond repair. Today these megaprojects are being dismantled, as superblocks give way to rows of houses fronting streets and sidewalks. Downtowns have...
...Somerville tries to hold on to its trademark ethnic diversity and urban feel in the wake of the Cantabrigian influx, Cambridge is losing the same battle as some of its most vocal groups diminish...
Those games of school, and the mental toughness she developed as one of the top six women wrestlers in the nation, will serve Summer well in her planned career: teaching at-risk kids in an urban, public junior high school...