Word: urban
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...culturally and economically unified a group as non-blacks would like to believe: Some of us are rich and others are poor, some of us are of mixed race, some of us come from other countries, some of us live in the rural South while others live in the urban North. The thing that has really united us is a sense of being shut out from certain opportunities. No matter where we lived or how we behaved, we were all bound by the knowledge that there were things we couldn’t do and places we couldn?...
...holiday season, there’s a huge drop-off and you have to borrow money from the bank,” said MacDonald. “Some businesses will find they won’t be able to.”Store managers for larger retailers such as Urban Outfitters and restaurants such as Bertucci’s were not permitted to comment on their business this fall, but owners of smaller restaurants including Felipe’s Taqueria and b.good said that while their sales were holding steady or were even higher than last year?...
Between Pauley’s constant road trips—she’s a self-professed “urban hiker,” who confesses to live out of a bookbag—she’s put out two full-length CDs. The most recent one, “Elijah Drop Your Gun,” was funded entirely by fans, including seven $1,000 donations...
...1950s and 60s that literally manifested this relationship in America. By the first half of the 20th century, Americans were already saturated in a visual culture—a culture that enticed consumption on every street corner and was epitomized, interestingly enough, by the urban department store window. The department store window, as we know it today, was a modern innovation. While the makeshift window displays before the mid-1880s consisted of products casually strewn on top of boxes and crates, the department store windows of the 1920s experimented with novel techniques of color, glass, and light to amplify...
...OIP—listed the simple design and quality of materials as distinctive characteristics of the Swedish furniture company’s products. Meaker, who is currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark, drew connections between these observable qualities of IKEA furniture and the core tenets that Scandanavian architects emphasize in urban planning and design. “There is a concern for quality, simplicity, the elegant solution and detail.” Meaker said. “Architecture is for making things comfortable and cozy for society.” Meaker added that these elements of architecture are a reflection...