Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like scores of other cities, Seattle (which came up with the idea first) has found that its pedal-pushing patrol has become, in the words of Officer Paul Grady, "quite the urban crime fighter." Wheeling rugged 18-speed mountain bikes into parks, doorways, narrow alleys and even under viaducts, Seattle's squad of 20 bike officers has averaged five times the number of arrests made by downtown foot patrols over the past two years...
Each of the three concentrations--architecture, landscape and urban design--has different projects for most of the summer, but all of the students participate in the first problem: to build a wall...
...Urban design projects include analysis of city plans and development of urban areas in foreign countries. For one project, students were presented with an elaborate scenario in Nepal and asked to build housing for Tibetan refugees, taking into consideration the various needs of the population, the different materials available for building and the cultural attitudes in Nepal...
...urban creature; the countryside frightens me," says Kyoto-born Noboru Tsubaki, whose Fresh Gasoline, 1989, a 9-ft.-high bulbous yellow pod, is the most startling work in the show. The creepy beauty and rich surface texture of Tsubaki's monstrous blob, with tentacle-like branches sprouting from its top, recall a fascination with the grotesque that characterized some Japanese avant-garde art of the 1950s and early '60s. Its inspiration: Japan's bombed-out landscape after World War II. Strains of this extreme aesthetic are still visible today in the ghoulish makeup and gestures of butoh dancers. Similarly, Shoko...
...thirtysomething folks on a good day, in a gilded mirror. As Ephron says, "People who live in cities aren't in car chases. We don't get shot at. What we mainly do is talk on the phone and have dinner." Her film and sex, lies serve up the urban scene at its most urbane. Clean taxis and great apartments appear in a trice, and no one's upscale job deprives him of quality time for soul scratching. But in both films the surface prettiness is just a device; it clears the cityscape of its daily detritus to focus...