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...wonder of his Bronx home; the boy in Central Park, his face a rictus of hostility; the man in curlers (pictured here), with an expression at once vulnerable and defiant. To call these images arresting is to understate their ability to drag you on a bleak journey through the urban aridity of the mid-20th century. But steel yourself. If there's a current exhibition in London that can be fairly described as a must-see, it's this...
...hours, the rebels besieged Nalchik, leaving terrified inhabitants with nothing but wildly inaccurate reports from the official media to explain what was going on. By the time local security forces and reinforcements from neighboring republics regained control, the city of 250,000 bore all the grim scars of urban warfare: bodies sprawled on sidewalks, in back alleys and outside apartment blocks and official buildings. Kids roamed the streets collecting shell casings. "We never thought this would happen here," says Anastasia Zaitseva, whose workplace, a hotel opposite the Federal Security Service (fsb) headquarters, was on the front line. "We always believed...
...marketing campaign. The new bottle collection--dubbed M5 for Magnificent Five--will roll out over the next year in 50 to 60 select nightclubs around the world. The icons are intended to draw attention from trendsetters, spicing up Coke's image in the minds of cool hunters and fashionable urban consumers. Don't expect to see M5s in grocery stores; they're much too hip for that. Instead, Coke will try to position the new bottles in fashion magazine layouts and even license the designs for clothing boutiques. A music video will accompany the release of each bottle, a viral...
Jerold S. Kayden ’75 is in the business of social space. And this past spring, he turned it into a science. An urban planner and Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design, Kayden decided to turn his scientific attention to his own community last year. Students were complaining about a lack of positive social spaces; Kayden’s research promised to give them realistic solutions. Working with partner Martin Zogran and 19 students, he scoured the campus for places that fit their definition of a social space. The data, which...
...somewhat bizarre, but that is precisely why it might actually work.Though some fear that the notion of a “decentralized student center” is just a clever excuse for not building a real one, maybe, for once, the administration does know best. SPACE JAMHarvard is an urban campus. Space is limited, precious, and extremely expensive. “Funding is difficult to get, but space is even more difficult,” Corker says. Perhaps that’s why students reacted so strongly to the news that a central lot on 90 Mount Auburn...