Word: urbanism
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...that live in legend -- like Oct. 29, 1986, when a single midafternoon accident on the San Diego Freeway spread gridlock along connecting freeways and surface streets from downtown Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley, trapping tens of thousands of motorists for eight full hours. (Survivors of such mythic urban struggles brag about them like good ole boys...
Since then, however, the conservatives have been unable to devise economic proposals to replace Deng's reforms while still retaining China's newfound prosperity in the countryside and some urban centers. In April, Deng suddenly unbalanced his opponents when he told visiting dignitaries that the greatest danger to China came not only from complete Westernization but also from "leftist inertia...
Most American Indians on reservations earn less than $7,000 a year. At least 35% are unemployed, and those who do work tend to be found in low-wage jobs. Roughly two-thirds live off the reservation, where they often find themselves % unprepared for urban life. Native Americans constitute one of the poorest of minorities and are likely to be less educated, more prone to illness, and more resistant to assimilation into the mainstream than any other ethnic group, even though they have been here the longest...
Your article on megacounties, the fast-growing, sprawling suburbs ((NATION, June 15)), failed to highlight one of the most frightening aspects of these neo-urban communities: their stultifying similarity to one another. With their flashy office buildings and cookie-cutter shopping malls, bars and theme restaurants, megacounties like Orange County, Calif., and Johnson County, Kans., are not only interchangeable, they are indistinguishable. I despair to think of a generation whose idea of local color is watering holes such as Houlihan's or TGI Friday...
During the Great Depression, the newly homeless squatted outside American cities in shantytowns derisively christened Hoovervilles. Last week Los Angeles opened a spruced-up, officially sanctioned version of the same thing, called an "urban campground," on a dusty, windswept lot between the Los Angeles River and the city's skid row. From a distance, the rows of yellow- and-white canopies look as if they might have been set up for a garden party. But inside are only Army-green cots with portable toilets placed nearby. Guards from the Salvation Army, which worked with Mayor Tom Bradley to establish...