Word: urbanities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Physicians from a local hospital provide comprehensive health care. Tutors recruited from the Junior League help with homework, and employment counselors place the kids in summer jobs. "Many employers have stereotypes of black urban youth," says Mary Kay Penn, who manages the Milbank program. "It is very hard to persuade them to take these kids on, even when we pay the salary." But last summer Penn placed 75 of the kids in jobs, and Carrera added a silk-screening program so they could learn to design and sell T shirts...
They hang out in parking lots and playgrounds. They commandeer vacant apartments. In some cities they have become occupying armies, besieging entire housing complexes. They are the drug dealers who have terrorized public- housing projects since the birth of the crack-cocaine trade. Last week Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp announced sweeping plans to drive drug dealers out of public housing. But in his zeal to attack the drug crisis, Kemp may have ignored serious questions of practicality, if not constitutionality...
Eduardo Lozano, a former professor of urban planning at Harvard University who has helped rebuild devastated cities in Peru and Nicaragua, said Sunday he will draft a master plan for the city. Lozano and officials in Moscow and Armenia, a Soviet republic, agreed on the plan last week...
Lozano said he plans to bring Soviet architects to Cambridge in late summer for training in urban planning, computer-aided design and methods of making buildings resistant to earthquakes...
...native of Argentina, Lozano came to the United States in 1962 to study architecture and urban design. After receiving a doctorate from Harvard, he taught at Harvard and Princeton universities and then founded Lozano, White & Associates with partner Lindsay White...