Word: urban
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...those who have never played it, GTA3 (as its fans affectionately call it) sounds like just another escapist shoot-'em-up, a virtual urban war game for suburban armchair delinquents. But while most video games put you in a fantastic setting--say, a blue maze full of dots--GTA3 is set in Liberty City, a metropolis as realistic and richly detailed as Dickens' London, with weather that changes hourly and carefully rendered litter tumbling down its meticulously drawn streets. Most video games give you a challenge, like eating all the dots while dodging hungry pastel-colored ghosts. In GTA3, your...
...concept is celebrated in an exhibition, "New Hotels for Global Nomads," at New York's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Curator Donald Albrecht says it aims to explore the hotel, not just for cutting-edge architecture and interior design, but as a source of mystery and refuge in the urban wilderness. Look out for digital renderings of Jean Nouvel's Hotel Broadway in New York, and of Dubai's Burj al-Arab, the world's tallest hotel. - L.G Treasure Trove An ethereal glow emanates from a jeweled menagerie of flowers and animals ensconced inside long cabinets in a darkened room...
While he waited for his visa, Pang missed two weeks of classes and significant work in the GSD’s Urban Planning and Design program...
...also defended the city’s existing social programs and characterized the issue as an urban problem without a perfect solution...
...Bamboozled,” the black faced performer is a mime that may reflect social irony as well as racism. I believe that Knipp is an interesting character, and his act is tinged with a little of both, as is modern society. Overall, his homage to the black urban woman is one of comic respect. The protests seems heavy handed and somewhat mean-spirited, and I am sure that this performer would be willing to enter into a dialogue about the nature of his act. An honest mediation may help Boston to look a little less stereotypically Southern itself...