Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never approached the power or political skill of James Michael Curley, but it is obvious the former Boston mayor is Vellucci's role model. Curley perfected the urban ethnic style of politics that some call "urban populism," and Vellucci has been an apt pupil and improviser...
...light, and what seemed to me?it was what most astonished me?an atmosphere of freedom and leisure quite unknown on the other side." That description was published 35 years ago. Today, life for many of Brooklyn's 2.4 million inhabitants has taken an all too familiar urban turn. Tales of metropolitan life that came from three Brooklyn neighborhoods last week...
...Boston Urban Associates (BUA) and The Architects Collaborative (TAC) both sent letters to the committee last week stating they would not be able to work together on the project, David Carter of the State Planning Office, said yesterday...
Mortimer S. Zuckerman, Urban Associates president, said yesterday the split started last May when Joseph Hoskins, the architect working on the project, left TAC two days before Zuckerman submitted his development plan to the committee. "We didn't create the problem--they had the problem," Zuckerman said...
...requirement in certain professional organizations," he said. Robert Brown says that "there is no question that [recognition] has status with practicing planners." Of the approximately 80 professional programs receiving recognition, "no schools have backed out" although the AIP has on occasion withdrawn recognition. In most cases an urban economics program would not seek, nor would it receive, recognition, Brown says, "but it remains very important" to professional planning programs...