Word: urbanism
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...store is especially popular among Harvard women, along with Urban Outfitters and the Tannery...
With the best stories already told, the urban poets of the 1990s became fake black mafiosi with legendary gangster surnames, telling fantasy crime tales that were ridiculous to anyone familiar with real ghetto street crime. The socially conscious lament began to disappear with Dr. Dre’s 1992 magnum opus, The Chronic. The music that Chuck D had called the “CNN of the hood” was replaced by a downwardly spiraling culture defined largely by fraudulent performance and outright glorification of ghetto nihilism in exchange for financial success...
...successor in 2007. With only 30 months left-by law, he isn't permitted to seek a third consecutive term-Tung's lame-duck slide has been accompanied by a startling rise in public activism, most often against government projects, such as an ambitious plan to build the largest urban arts and cultural district in Asia within a decade. Beijing itself may have prompted or even dictated the tone of self-criticism: last month in Macau, Tung and most of his cabinet stood uncomfortably on a stage as Chinese President Hu Jintao instructed the administration to "examine its inadequacies...
...film, it's a specific group (we won't say which) with a motive familiar to readers of cynical crime fiction. In the original, it's an L.A. street gang, but one that metastasizes into a more generalized and troubling plague: the whole roiling sweep of urban pestilence that seized the U.S. in the '70s. It's the rampaging unknown, voiceless and ruthless--a nightmare that will end only if you can stay awake, and alive, till dawn...
...twixters are getting married later, they are missing out on some of the social-support networks that come with having families of their own. To make up for it, they have a special gift for friendship, documented in books like Sasha Cagen's Quirkyalone and Ethan Watters' Urban Tribes, which asks the not entirely rhetorical question Are friends the new family? They throw cocktail parties and dinner parties. They hold poker nights. They form book groups. They stay in touch constantly and in real time, through social-networking technologies like cell phones, instant messaging, text messaging and online communities like...