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...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...
Lang's epic poem of urban dystopia and class warfare set the standard for imagining the future-and how it might feel to be a part of it. Even now, in the age of CGI, his dark vision remains unsurpassed...
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...
...56th edition since launching in Sweden 10 years ago. And 20 Minutes, set up by Norwegian media group Schibsted in 1999, is thumbed in 20 cities across France, Spain and Switzerland, racking up 5 million daily readers. The secret of the giveaways? They're free and easy. For young, urban, time-poor commuters, "It's the right product, at the right place and at the right time," says Sverre Munck, executive vice president of Schibsted and ceo of 20 Min Holding, which controls 20 Minutes in France and Spain. The rise in free papers is one more headache for traditional...
...through the same channels. Whoever wins, "We think the Evening Standard would have to go free pretty quickly" afterward, warned Deutsche Bank analyst Mark Braley in a January research note, though Associated swats away the suggestion. How do free papers make money? By aggregating enough eyeballs - generally young and urban - to lure advertisers. Many newspapers already rely more heavily on ad revenues than on circulation; ad sales represent almost two-thirds of total revenue among British titles, and 57% among those in Germany, according to the World Association of Newspapers (wan). But overall, advertisers are turning increasingly to other media...