Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shefelman says that his year at Harvard influenced him "by osmosis." He studied architecture with Walter Gropius, who emphasized the importance of "urban design" instead of just "plunking a building down in the middle of a city." Shefelman valued Harvard, Cambridge and Boston for their architectural assets as well as for their overall urban appeal...
...chosen to apply those skills to an unusual occupation: Shefelman and his wife Janet work together to write and illustrate children's' books. The first effort on which they collaborated was Victoria House, a story about a young family that moved from a decaying Victorian mansion into an urban setting...
Shefelman says that the project was accepted by Harcourt-Brace because the editor thought that it would be popular with "young urban pioneer families." The prediction came true; the success of Victoria House encouraged the Shefelmans to write their newest book, A Peddler's Dream. The story is about Soloman Azar, a man who immigrates to the United States from Lebanon in hopes of finding his fortune. After many setbacks, Solomon and his wife Marie establish a fashionable department store in Texas (where the Shefelmans live...
...violence increases outside the Yard, in the Square and along the route to 29 Garden St., the lessons of New Haven should be taken to heart, and the implications of operating a university within an urban environment fully understood...
...that affects these minorities has not been nearly as pervasive, isolating, recalcitrant, and deeply-rooted as the racism affecting African Americans, whose 400 years' experience of slavery, exploitation, segregation, ghettoization, and struggle has kept them by and large a distinct "nation within a nation." The rural South and the urban ghetto have for just about all African-Americans rich cultural and historical significance. By contrast, while there are admittedly many Chinatowns and barrio bordertowns in America, these enclaves are not germinating places for Latino and Asian American cultures that are strongly shared or felt by most Latinos and Asians...