Word: urbanism
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...urban reform. This is the core of our economic restructuring. This is more complicated as it involves more problems. Just as with what happened seven years ago, there are some people, although fewer in number, who are worried about reform in the cities. And I think their worries are not completely without reason. So our approach to their misgivings and worries is the same approach that we adopted seven years ago. We will let practice dissipate their worries and misgivings. We permit people to disagree. Our attitude toward those who have misgivings or worries is to understand them. Perhaps...
...Ambassador to the Organization of American States. Yet Sol Linowitz has been shaping public policy for decades, as co-negotiator of the Panama Canal treaties in the 1970s, as Jimmy Carter's special Middle East envoy, and as chairman of countless public and private bodies, from the National Urban Coalition to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Despite his years in high places, Linowitz remains a remarkably modest man. This memoir contains few claims of credit for policy coups and no attempts at self-justification or revenge. The only enemy in sight is a little-known Pentagon official who opposed...
...their separate ways. He went to the American Institute of Architects and she, accompanied by Barbara Bush, visit ed the Washington Home, a residence for the elderly and infirm. Inside the striking cement-and-glass A.I. A. headquarters, Charles heard about one of his pet subjects, the revitalization of urban areas. After the round-table discussion, the Prince strolled over to the Octagon House, built in 1801, to peruse the two-page Treaty of Ghent ("Quite a long one, too," he said smilingly), which ended the War of 1812 between Great Britain...
...complaints seem symptomatic of a growing crisis of confidence that is haunting the three-year-old government of President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado. Bureaucratic sclerosis and political insensitivity have laid his administration open to charges that it is not doing enough to overcome the country's worst urban disaster in decades. In the past two months, an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion has left the country, mostly for the U.S., and the value of Mexico's peso has dropped from 350 to 500 to the dollar...
...parts of the country. The student surge is revamping inner cities and the culture of universities. In Melbourne, foreign students from a range of campuses have opted to live in town, saving property developers from "a huge embarrassment of oversupply in city apartments," according to Monash University urban planner Kevin O'Connor...