Word: urban
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...TIME: Is that what it's all about then: keep the people fed and watered and they won't bother you? LEE: With rural folk, yes. With the town folk, that's a different problem. As China moves to a majority urban society, [where people have access to] satellite TV, Internet, cell phones, the towns have to be governed differently. At the moment they are co-opting: you are a successful entrepreneur, you are a great artist, then join us. The Communist Party is a very broad church. You help drive China forward. Make it work better...
...Phillips Brooks-ite, he is popular with the do-gooder crowd. “People don’t think of him as someone who would be great working with kids,” says Techrosette Leng ’07, who worked closely with Lee at the Summer Urban Program (SUP). “You’d be surprised at how easy he is to work with...
...still no students had arrived for a brainstorming session organized for the Undergraduate Council (UC) by Allston planners. “A real undergraduate?” Graduate School of Design professor Alex Krieger asked hopefully as a student entered the room. Krieger, a professor in practice of urban design, is co-founder of Chan Krieger & Associates, the firm charged with developing a program for the non-academic components of Harvard’s new campus across the Charles River. He encouraged the three members of the UC who ultimately attended the meeting to think creatively, but the conversation remained...
...October, a tenants’ association even filed a suit with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development charging that they’d been “prevented from participating substantially and meaningfully” in the decision-making process...
...says Hu Peicheng, secretary-general of the China Sexology Association in Beijing. With little knowledge of birth control, an increasing number of unmarried women are getting pregnant in a culture in which single motherhood is still taboo. A survey by Shanghai medical researcher Yan Fengting found that 65% of urban women undergoing abortions in 2004 were single, compared with just 25% in 1999. Rates of sexually transmitted diseases are skyrocketing too, with HIV infections growing most quickly among Chinese 15 to 24 years old. Brothels barely disguised as beauty salons crowd the streets of China's big cities, while certain...