Word: urbanism
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...striking cover art casts the band’s sound in a Blade Runner-esque cityscape, fitting for M83’s jarring new urban sound. Straying from the Elysian Fields and bird-fluttered skies that comprised the melodies of their first album, Gonzalez lets tracks like “In the Cold I’m Standing” and “Car Chase Terror!” set a disturbingly murky tone for his thematic reincarnation. Lyrics like “A piece of brain in my hair / The wheels are melting” from the album?...
...advertised further innovation driven by this same use of technology for mobilizing political fervor. One tech company, under the Institute for Applied Autonomy, developed text messaging software designed to send mass text messages to many people at once. The concept is that demonstrators can more quickly organize in an urban setting if they are in contact via text message...
...there is an arbiter of popular culture today, it is probably the book table at Urban Outfitters. According to an assistant merchandiser at the J.F.K. Street Urban, the store’s bestselling book this Christmas season was He’s Just Not That Into You, a self-help book by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo, two writers from Sex and the City...
...suite with three other girls and flipped hamburgers at the Grille. A private school graduate, Barbara smiled and socialized her way through the day wearing blue jeans and floppy tops—then sat down to churn out ten-page papers at night. Out of a passion for urban planning, she spent hours riding the T and wandering Boston. She had dated boys in Lowell and Kirkland, but only knew one in Quincy...
...senior year. It was March 9, 1972, at 9 p.m. He knocked on her door as she worked away on her thesis. “I had a surprise for her,” Southworth says. After hitchhiking through the snow to MIT to see an outdoor exhibit that urban design students had built, they somehow found themselves in front of the chapel. As snowflakes fell around them, they began to dance. “It was very exciting and very romantic,” Xanthakos says. “We fell in love pretty quickly...