Word: urban
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...Operation Restore Order has so far netted more than 15,000 people for hoarding maize and dealing in foreign currency. Many Zimbabweans believe there are darker reasons for the sweeps, which have included incidents of police brutality and destruction of property. Most of those targeted live in urban areas that overwhelmingly backed the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in parliamentary elections last March. Many believe the arrests are payback for perceived disloyalty and a warning that antigovernment unrest will be met with force. But the arrests may also be a way for Mugabe to make nice with...
...revamp was unnecessary and reeked of corporatism. “I didn’t like the ‘identity campaign,’ which seemed very corporate and like every other ‘identity campaign,’” Professor of Urban Design and Planning Theory Margaret Crawford wrote in an e-mail...
...showed a photo of a gated compound where whites are living. But the attraction of secure communities has nothing to do with race and everything to do with keeping crime at bay. Gated residential compounds are not the exclusive domain of white South Africans. Blacks, who are victims of urban crime as frequently as whites, also take up residence in these communities, where different races co-exist side by side. In the one where I live, residents have experienced virtually no crime and enjoy the freedom of their streets around the clock. Frederic Marais Pretoria Your generally well-balanced article...
Bell, who has also worked for the Freshman Dean’s Office as a consultant to the Harvard Outing Club, the First-Year Urban Program, and the Prefect Program, will teach in UNH’s Outdoor Education Program. Bell was awarded a doctorate in Experiential Education by that program this weekend...
Professor in Practice of Urban Design Alex Krieger, a member of the MPAC, said that the report would include information on potential sites for science complexes and graduate school housing in Allston...