Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prized recruit, will teach two seminars offered jointly through the Kennedy School and the Department of Afro-American Studies. In the fall, Wilson will lead a class on sociological perspectives on racial inequality in America; in the spring, he'll teach a seminar on race, class and poverty in urban America...
Linsky said the attendees were inspired to discuss their own problems after studying the case of Robert Moses, the New Deal-era New York City politician and urban designer criticized for bulldozing communities to make way for his extensive public works projects...
...night I fall asleep in my overpriced urban apartment to the sound of car alarms and fire engines...
...beginning to understand the studies which attribute inner-city violence to the lack of green space and quiet in urban teens' lives...
...Olympics out of Colorado. In 1974, in his successful bid for the governorship, he walked across the state, becoming one of the first politicians to adopt that strategy, and gave substance to grass-roots politics. Stymied by a Republican legislature, he wound up spending much of his time blocking urban sprawl, and in his third term, he warned about the dangers of runaway deficits and entitlement spending with such Wagnerian brio that he came to be known as Governor Gloom...