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...South Side neighborhood of middle class black residents and a seat of historic black culture. While Wilson and Taub rarely extrapolate a conclusion for the nation or offer a normative judgment, they have chosen their neighborhoods carefully enough that their observations likely hold relevance for urban centers across the country...
First, the authors note in their acknowledgments that the data from the study was gathered during Wilson’s time as the head of the University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Urban Inequality. But according to the biography posted on Wilson’s Harvard Web site, he left the center in 1996, meaning that the surveys are at least a decade...
Tired of lugging around those clunky, fact-packed travel guides that practically scream, "Look at me! I'm a tourist"? For the discreet visitor who prefers to blend in, there's a new breed of small, specialized and often offbeat urban guides designed to show you how to shop, eat and look like a hip native...
...luck with the eat.shop guides. But if you absolutely must find the best cowboy boots in Austin, Texas, a bait-and-tackle shop with high-design sensibilities in Providence, R.I., a Persian ice cream parlor in Hollywood or Japanese tapas in Brooklyn, N.Y., these compact urban guides may be for you. Each volume focuses on 90 locally owned shops or restaurants in cities from Portland, Ore., to Paris...
...helping turn the gaze of Australian painting away from the bush and toward the urban fringe where, as he put it, "Ninety-five percent of Australians actually live," Arkley was right on the money. And at the time of his death in 1999 aged 48, there were no limits to what he seemed capable of achieving. His color-saturated screens of suburban living rooms unfolded triumphantly around the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale; just opened was his first sell-out show in Los Angeles; and a new series of freeway paintings was in the works, suggesting infinite possible directions...