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...relationships between blacks and other ethnic groups. The Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education is a landmark example of judicial activism, an activism that shaped the Court’s opinion in Roe v. Wade. A thorough understanding of urban and suburban housing patterns and education policy cannot be reached without considering the impact of race. Even American pop culture is influenced by Hip-Hop culture, which is in turn influenced by jazz, the blues and spirituals...
According to the Boston Globe, Koolhaas dubbed his plan “the Moses project” in homage to both the legendarily powerful urban planner Robert D. Moses and the biblical prophet who parted the Red Sea and led the Israelites to the Promised Land...
...part, Chair of GSD Planning and Design Krieger, who is on the faculty committee for housing, hopes that Harvard officials will push for the oft-mentioned dream of an “urban ring” subway or light rail line around Boston...
...January morning in old Shanghai, and the sky is the color and density of oatmeal, feebly lit by an orange disc as vague as a watermark. In urban China in the 21st century, this is known as a sunny day. At an outdoor marketplace, a teeming tenement of narrow stalls and alleys, clamoring vendors peddle knockoff Rolex watches and Nike sneakers, pirated videos, severed ducks' heads and trussed pink pigs. Into this tumult strides a 2.13-meter alien from the imperial courts of the U.S. But he is no tourist...
...height of the cultural Revolution, 12 million "young intellectuals"?teenagers who made the mistake of attending secondary school?were exiled to the Chinese hinterland. There the sons and daughters of the urban bourgeoisie were re-educated by the virtuous peasantry, chiefly through backbreaking manual labor. The victims had no idea if they would ever be allowed to go home again or if they would spend the rest of their days shoving an antique plow through country...