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...immensely popular family-owned grocery store. What’s the problem with these types of businesses? It’s a ripple effect. “There are certain uses [of space] that can deactivate, rather than activate, an area,” says Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design Jerold S. Kayden ’75, who has studied Harvard social space (see “The Space Scientist,” page 16). “Areas that may be deemed important are given over to inert uses.”As the Square continued...
...time, not all '60s beliefs and behavior stood up to examination. Some sacred texts were junk. (Have you tried to read Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth lately? Don't.) And when, in Germany and Italy, the street politics of the 1960s gave way to the urban terrorism of the 1970s, the idea of a decade of peace and love seemed a bitter joke. But it is not because of their faults that the ideas of the '60s have lost some salience. It is because of their success. Rudi Dutschke, the German '60s student leader, coined the phrase...
...show had a decent premiere, in a tough slot against Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, an urban take on the innocents-in-jeopardy theme. Bruckheimer's suburban counterprogramming is risky but makes sense. It may be unfair to stereotype the burbs as a refuge for people fleeing life, but one reason people move there is security. Close to Home is not ashamed to milk those anxieties, right down to its title: the danger, it says, is not just in the big cities. It's right here, close to your cozy little cul-de-sac and your good public schools...
...College is using Office dA, an architecture and urban design firm in Boston, for the design feasibility study, which is slated to be completed by December, according to Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd...
Also baptized Catholic, Jimmy was born into a family of Scientologists. His parents, disaffected with traditional religion, had joined the Church in the 1970s, part of an early wave of American converts. L. Ron Hubbard started the religion in the late 1950s, and it was soon adopted by urban intellectuals and curious others in Washington D.C., New York, and Los Angeles. Today, there are around 77,000 practitioners in the United States, according to the City University of New York’s 2004 American Religious Identification Survey. (By way of comparison, the same survey reports that there are around...