Word: urban
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Once beloved of Communist central planners as well as progressive Western architects at the dawn of the space age, revolving restaurants may forever be considered kitsch. But given the fad for all things retro, their popularity seems to have come, well, full circle. The sweeping urban views they offer are also more dramatic today than in the 1960s. Here are three of the best?use them as an icebreaker on that first date, or as behavioral therapy for your acrophobe friends...
...nearly a decade, seniors from my school—their interest cultivated by one of the industry godfathers, who had a son enrolled—have filed, in groups of two and three, into the bowels of New York’s ritziest urban dwellings. Student doormen like me—hailing from Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, Amherst—are paraded through the upper halls to be half-heartedly celebrated by residents, shown off as symbols of the security and assistance that are a phone call to the basement away...
...Urban Outfitters is no stranger to controversy...
Again in October of 2003, Urban Outfitters was persuaded to remove “Ghettopoly,” a version of the popular board game Monopoly, after the game sparked a national boycott by those who believed it perpetuated racial stereotypes...
While some criticized the “Voting Is For Old People” slogan, individuals with the Oregon Bus Project—a group that rallies young people behind progressive candidates— decided to parody the Urban Outfitters product with the alternative t-shirt: “Vote F*cker...