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...That's an unusual attitude in today's China. The nation is in the throes of the fastest urban growth in human history. In recent years the country has built an average of 2 billion sq m of floor space annually?half the world's yearly total?and plans to add another 20-30 billion by 2020. In theory, this should offer limitless opportunities for innovative urban planning. But as China's cities have grown larger, they have only become more uniform, so that each now seems to boast a skyscraping government office, roads scaled like highways and a vast...
...your crime-and-fraternal-struggle-in-working- class-America fix, there's Showtime's Brotherhood, which debuts in June. That drama, which features two brothers--one a rising politician, the other a small-time crook--is set in Providence, R.I., but also explores fate and circumstance in the mournful, urban-blighted Northeast of a generation ago. "Without getting too highfalutin," says creator Blake Masters about the trend toward villain protagonists, "post-9/11, we hit some of our darkest days, and now we're in a war that will go on for years against an enemy we can't understand...
...they have criminal records might simply not be reporting it." Translation: Employers without the time or inclination to discern whether job applicants are criminals err on the ?safe? side and assume that all young black applicants are criminals-or at least incompetent. No wonder unemployment is sky-high in urban areas...
Doug Ahlers, a Kennedy School of Government (KSG) fellow, is leading a group down to Broadmoor, a neighborhood in New Orelans, to help with urban revitalization plans, according to trip volunteer Rakhi Bhavnani...
...Thursday, the carnage returned, when three bombers found their targets: a funeral procession, a security checkpoint, and the headquarters of the police major crimes unit. At least 56 people died. While the insurgent enemy's ability to operate had been badly crimped since March 12 by the sprawling urban offensive dubbed Operation Scales of Justice, a candid Major General Rick Lynch - the official U.S. military spokesman in Iraq - admitted,"Today he found gaps...