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...Shanghai. "Cars are great for going long distances," Kamen says, "but it makes no sense at all for people in cities to use a 4,000-lb. piece of metal to haul their 150-lb. asses around town." In the future he envisions, cars will be banished from urban centers to make room for millions of "empowered pedestrians"--empowered, naturally, by Kamen's brainchild...
...them, both men appeared intent on survival. Perhaps their only way out was a dangerous route through the snowy passes of the White Mountains and into one of the border towns of Pakistan. Once there, they could receive refuge from sympathetic Pashtun tribesmen and be absorbed into the anonymous urban surroundings...
...lunch with Dukakis was co-sponsored by the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Transportation Housing and Urban Development Professional Interest Council...
...hundreds of objects in the course of my research for the book,” Ulrich said in an e-mail. “The ones I chose all raised larger questions central to my project—usually questions about boundaries, boundaries between Indians and colonists, rural and urban, plain work and fancy work, or commercial and homemade...
Taubman, whose net worth is estimated at $860 million, recently announced his plan to donate $30 million to the University of Michigan, his alma mater, where the College of Architecture and Urban Planning will be named after him. The health care center and medical library at the University of Michigan already bear his name...