Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard also signed at least $1.5 million worth of contracts with the Iranian government since 1974. Harvard will help the Iranians with several urban development, health and educational projects. Critics of the Iranian government cite repressive internal policies as a reason for careful consideration of any involvement cooperation or agreement with the Iranian government. Peterson, referring to a $400,000 contract to help plan a graduate research center in Iran, the only Iranian contract with which he has been involved, says the question is "not whether I approve of the government but whether this university project is possible, whether...
...lamp of technology makes myriad new genii appear, but cannot make them disappear. The automobile - despite all we have learned of its diabolism - cannot be conjured away. The most we seem able to do is to make futile efforts to appease the automobile -by building parking temples on choice urban real estate and by deferring to the automobile with pedestrian overpasses and tunnels. We drive miles - and when we are there we walk miles - all for the convenience of the airplane. Our national politics is shaped more and more by the imperious demands of television. Our negotiations with the Genie...
...Young blacks have traditionally held jobs in urban centers and related to service and retail industries. But in recent years, these employers have been relocating toward the suburbs, leaving black youth behind in the central core...
...Square. This Wednesday's talk, "Should We Forego Private Property Rights In Order to Protect the Environment?" will feature Don K. Gifford, vice-president of Cabot, Cabot and Forbes, Robert Paterson, the deputy director of Massachusetts state planning office, State Senator William Saltonstall, and Lawrence Susskind, associate professor of Urban Planning...
...likes to remind his readers, is about "how the power game is played, and who are the winners." In or out of print, there has been no abler exponent of the Felkerian philosophy than the ingenious Felker himself. From its first issue of April 8,1968, his avenue-smart urban-survival one-upmanship manual has exerted an influence far beyond its current 375,000 circulation and Manhattan bailiwick. Though it is frequently footling and vulgar, the weekly's intelligence and imaginative thrust have given its aggressive boss the money-power to take over the raffish, rambunctious Village Voice...