Word: urbanisme
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Her other works prate menacingly on the dying urbanism of the American cityscape. They are complex and geometric, Baroque in expression, and the image of the city is harsh and self-destructive, swept with the contrasts of blaring and bland colors-as in "The Mugging," with its incompletely sketched faces...
Scientific changes like the current emphasis on urbanism "alter the vocabulary of art, but not its age-old themes."
ON NEW YORK. "Unless they let grass grow in the streets, the life of New York will be short. Cain was the father of urbanism,* and Cain is still murdering his brother. Like a little boy with a gun, a string of cars or a toy steamer, we are fascinated...
Small, round-faced Dr. Louis Wirth, University of Chicago sociologist, declared that urbanism-the big city problem-enters into almost every major problem of modern society. "Our cultures are still many, but our civilization is one. The city is the symbol of that civilization. We will either master this ominously...
"The root of the evil is urbanism or metropolitanism. The metropolis grows by attracting to itself the population of the country, which, as soon as it becomes urbanized, becomes barren. . . . The progressive sterility of city dwellers is in direct ratio to the rapidly monstrous growth of the city. Berlin, which...