Word: urban
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...Elena, those life goals include working on urban social issues and efforts to improve education in the United States...
...he’s a true Cantabrigian at heart—a dyed-in-the-wool liberal and a lover of all things urban...
...Saving Seoul" [May 15], on the city's transformation into a greener urban environment: As a citizen of Seoul, I am so proud that we have reclaimed and cleaned up Cheonggyecheon stream, the centerpiece of the city's environmentally friendly future. Cheonggyecheon, Seoul Forest and Seoul Plaza are green oases where a Seoulite can take a break, as free as a bird. Seoul's welcoming green spaces set a new standard in the design of urban parks for all Asia. I hope other Asian metropolises will learn from Seoul's example. If you visit Seoul, please stop by the green...
...program has started and 16 state-of-the-art monitoring stations are now up and running. If one compares the air quality of Hong Kong and Seoul in recent years, the two cities are very similar. Over 7.8 million trees have been planted in the past three years. Extensive urban-greening master plans are drawn up for all busy districts in addition to existing highway planting and slope coverage. Our country parks occupy nearly 40% of a total land area of 1,000 sq km and are located just 45 minutes beyond the concrete jungle. I would invite...
...really hard to regain your journalistic virginity,” Rosenthal says. “So my strategy for doing that was to get the fellowship at Harvard and to study something that didn’t have anything to do with the government.”He studied urban affairs, focusing on data that showed a larger proportion of the population was living and working in the suburbs. In 1969, he became the urban affairs correspondent at The New York Times, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1982, among other distinctions.While at The Times?...