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City Planning Classic Ahead Of Its Time In Environmental Efficiency (VIDEO)

Progressive Book Club | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Environmentalist, David Owen, Jane Jacobs, New York City, Environment, Urban Development, Environmental Activism, Environmental Efficiency, Urban Design, Books, Environmental Books, City Planning, Urban Planning, City Planning Books, Books News

Progressive Book Club In the annals of urban design and city planning, no book holds a higher place than The Death and Life of Great American Cities ...

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The Stranger in Everyday Life

Reverend Billy | Posted 11.23.2009 | New York

Read More: Consumerism, Neighborhoods, New York City, Jane Jacobs, City Life, Urban Planning, Developers, Surveillance, Immigrants, JFK Airport, New York News
Reverend Billy

The city-as-monoculture can only continue with surveillance, stop-and-frisks, eminent domain, developer tax windfalls and all the illegal activity brazenly called Progress and New York Greatness.

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Bricks, Mortar, Bloomberg, Moses

Jarrett Murphy | Posted 09.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Mike Bloomberg, Campaign 2009, Atlantic Yards, Robert Moses, Community Organizing, New York, Jane Jacobs, New York News
Jarrett Murphy

When you add all that's been proposed, planned and built under this administration, it's hard to think of another figure since Moses who has presided over as significant an effort to reshape the physical city as Bloomberg has.

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Reading Amanda: One Black Man's Burden

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 06.13.2009 | Style

Read More: Harlem, John F. Kennedy, Langston Hughes, Charlie Rose, Jesus, Architectural Digest, James Baldwin, Carter Burden, Mr. And Mrs. Hamilton McKown Twombly, Eartha Kitt, Jane Jacobs, Amanda Burden, Charlie Rangel, The Dakota, Parties, Vanderbilt, New York City, Barack Obama, River House, Robert F. Kennedy, Rezoning, Newport, Lewis H. Michaux, In the Hamptons, Henry Roth, New York Times, Malcolm X, Philip Johnsons, Society, Maya Angelou, Tuxedo Park, New-York-Socialites, Style News
Michael Henry Adams

Reputedly she is known by friends and family as "Ba"; habitually, as a uniform, she sports sober Calvin Klein suits and subsists on tuna or grilled...

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