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...world's game, basketball remains a distant second to soccer, which has fans in almost every country, totaling more than 1.25 billion. But there's no denying that basketball's appeal is on the rise, especially among younger, urban and middle-class fans. Like soccer, basketball is a relatively cheap game and easy to start playing. It requires only a ball and a makeshift hoop hung on a tree or the side of a house. In Mexico, there is scarcely a town that doesn't have at least one court, and even in impoverished Nigeria, many homes have...
Music has always been an industry, but these days, that’s all it is. From the manufactured rage of groups like Korn and Limp Bizkit, to the greasy puppy love of boy bands, the shameless narcissism of divas like Mariah Carey and the pseudo-bohemian Urban Outfitters rock of the Hives and the Strokes, the product is the same: a few catchy tunes and a sterile, hollow image...
...make the alternatives of steel and brick economical, Chicago had to build vertically, leading to the first city of “skyscrapers.” Thus, by looking towards the future, instead of short-term economic gain, Chicago became the first modern city and a model for future urban planning. We, as a nation, are currently facing the same question. And just like in 1871, this question primarily involves wood...
Prohibitive laws plague most developing nations in both rural and urban areas, usually requiring 10-25 years of bureaucratic hassles to obtain property rights. In advanced nations this takes only weeks. Huge underground economies persist from Mexico to Russia, Manila to Cairo, and Haiti to Nigeria...
Paul S. Grogan, the author of Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival and Harvard’s former vice president for government, community and public affairs who oversaw the beginning of the report, praised the results yesterday...