Word: urban
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...Ruscha’s work holds the mirror up to the banality of urban life and gives order to the barrage of mass media-fed images and information that confront us daily,” writes the Carpenter Center in their online description of the event. And whether such sweeping praise is true or whether Ruscha just really knows how to sharpen knives, the lecture promises to be interesting...
...That Madonna’s latest video is such a blatant plea for urban legitimacy is all the more baffling given the fact that her upcoming album “Confessions on a Dancefloor” is being publicized as a Euro-techno romp and the song itself bears as little relation to hip-hop as the average 50 Cent track does to, well, Madonna...
...Seidel’s political platform bears the thumbprint of an urban planner. Seidel, who holds a degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, proposes establishing wireless Internet throughout Cambridge and making the price of parking permits proportional to the size of vehicles that take up the city’s valuable curb space...
...urban planner, Seidel says he believes that Harvard should share responsibility for creating affordable housing in Cambridge—partly because it is in the school’s own interest...
...Seidel says his political personality carries the mark of two primary influences: the liberal grassroots movement channeled through Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign and Seidel’s own study of public policy and urban planning...