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...With an urban city that is seemingly inaccessible to the underage, financially-burdened college student, many at Harvard are motivated to advocate for an on-campus student center—a student-driven facility with extended hours that could provide food, fun, entertainment and increased, meaningful social interactions. But the administration time and again has shown itself reluctant to pursue such a prospect. Says Associate Dean of College David P. Illingworth ’71, “I am not in favor of a student center, but I am in favor of more student space...
...largely on the work of gritty local companies producing pedestrian goods and services. Small- and medium-size enterprises generate most of China's employment growth. By the government's reckoning, companies with annual revenue of less than $30 million account for more than 8 of every 10 jobs in urban China and three-quarters of the country's industrial output...
...Hong Kong, for even as the city struggles in the face of regional and global economic forces, another, even more dreaded scourge casts Hong Kong's future in mortal and economic doubt. Cities evolve and prosper or wither and vanish just as individual species do. The causes of that urban selection are economic, geographical and biological, and an unlucky confluence of the three can lead to a Darwinian dead end. Herodotus already observed in the 5th century B.C. that "the cities that were formerly great, have most of them become insignificant; and such as are at present powerful, were weak...
...decayed because of internal and social strife, costly military campaigns to maintain trading empires or other commercial interests, protectionism, inability to adapt to changing economic conditions and intolerance toward minority groups, which encouraged merchant families or religious minorities to leave. And there has been another, frequently overlooked agent of urban decline: disease. For example, the Black Death, caused by the Pasteurella pestis, reappeared in Europe in 1346 when the port city of Kaffa was besieged by the Mongol leader Kipchak khan Janibeg, who catapulted dead bodies into the city (the first recorded case of biological warfare). The plague quickly spread...
Another of the finalists—Claudia L. Bach, the schools chief in Andover, Mass.—presented an impressive resume, but her candidacy suffered from the fact that she did not run an urban district like Cambridge, committee member Alice L. Turkel said...