Word: urbanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Caise said he hopes that the film will encourage other universities located in urban areas to create public service projects which involve the local communities...
Americans' emblematic visions of their country incline toward the arcadian -- cabins in a peaceable countryside, a small town with no entertainment wilder than a Sousa band in the park. But in this century, as the U.S. became an urban nation, New York City's Times Square emerged as a different sort of American apotheosis. Times Square exemplified a certain idea of the city carried to its frenetic extreme: a few blocks dense with too many lights and too much action, a happy chaos of honky-tonk night life (the Florodora girls, Legs Diamond's Hotsy Totsy Club), theatrical bliss (Barrymore...
...Philip Johnson and John Burgee, part of a $2.6 billion plan to redevelop 42nd Street. A few blocks away, on the northern side of Times Square, demolition is nearly complete on half a dozen other high-rise sites. Says Vincent Tese, the head of New York State's Urban Development Corporation and the man in charge of the ambitious plan: "The dream is about to become a reality...
...townships on the outskirts of Johannesburg and Pretoria, where the urban black labor force is required by law to live, many of the roads are littered, unpaved and scarred with potholes. Increasingly, however, they lead to the gates of grandiose homes built amid the matchbox slums by a new class of upwardly mobile black professionals and entrepreneurs known, like their American counterparts, as "buppies." Inside exclusive enclaves with up- market names like Siluma View and Beverly Hills, the new black elite is enjoying amenities once reserved for whites only: "his" and "hers" Mercedes, live-in black servants, Jacuzzi baths...
Black-owned shopping centers are fast replacing the corner groceries and market stalls that until recently were the main stores catering to township residents. The new $2.8 million Lesedi City mall, east of Johannesburg, the largest yet built in any urban black area, houses 53 black businesses, including a supermarket, video library, disco and off-track betting parlor, as well as the local witch doctor and herbalist. Says Lesedi City Developer Gray Thathane, 56: "That's the march to freedom...