Bridge repair and urban planning could be handled by the Thunderhead, but taking a life was an act of conscience and consciousness. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Such areas pockmarked the landscape, as urban renewal chewed its way through black Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Suburban children, meanwhile, are in the middle of the curve, while urban children tend to score higher than average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

That’s because the CPS, like most urban school districts, had a disproportionate number of minority students. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Middleton actually made Caldwell look urban; it was barely a town at all. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I was too urban even for a park. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They had decided to major in urban planning and hoped to eventually get a job designing or improving public transit systems. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Most of the commuters heading back to Newark at this hour are exhausted housekeepers trekking back to their urban dwellings after a day in the wealthier suburbs. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The influx of federal urban renewal money was supposed to be a coup for Durham’s poor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The smallest unit was the cell, which in urban townships consisted of roughly ten houses on a street. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Phony rules, which proliferate like urban legends and are just as hard to eradicate, are responsible for vast amounts of ham-fisted copyediting and smarty-pants one-upmanship. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

As described in chapter 1, during the late 1970s, jobs had suddenly disappeared from urban areas across America, and unemployment rates had skyrocketed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It became symbolic of the cold and dehumanizing effects of urban life. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They harboured a twisted fear and hatred of urban blacks; they knew nothing of black solidarity, relishing only the sense of raw power being a policeman gave them over their own kind. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together they had defeated gravity and conquered the soft gumbo of Chicago soil, to change forever the character of urban life; now, together, they would build the fair and change history. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As an organizer working in urban communities, Barack had told me, he’d contended most often with a deep weariness in people—especially black people—a cynicism bred from a thousand small disappointments over time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I expressed my delight to be back among them, but I then scolded the people for some of the crippling problems of urban black life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He verified that Haitian army soldiers were shooting armed demonstrators, entering urban hospitals and threatening staff, sometimes executing patients. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the urban street gang evolved from a club for wayward teenagers into a true commercial enterprise. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Ceiling-high windows around her grandfather’s bed made the room feel like the crow’s nest on some urban pirate ship. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

These numbers were astonishing to me and my staff, but the sad fact is that urban schools around the country were contending with epidemic levels of gun violence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Knox was talking specifically about New York City, but his concluding thoughts on this process could be applied to all large urban centers. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood grew hap-hazardly a century or so ago and today looks hardly urban at all. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This apartment was dingy in an urban, not suburban way. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the first stage, a small number of well-trained volunteers would break selected laws in a handful of urban areas. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malan introduced the Group Areas Act — which he described as “the very essence of apartheid” — requiring separate urban areas for each racial group. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So long as mass drug arrests are concentrated in impoverished urban areas, police chiefs have little reason to fear a political backlash, no matter how aggressive and warlike the efforts may be. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A study of urban black fathers found that only 28 percent had access to an automobile. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were some poorer kids too, but even they had some Western, urban ways about them. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The climate described from inside sterile urban studios was not the one I was encountering in the church halls and rec centers of Iowa. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It’s been a few years since I engaged in urban highway driving, and I give myself high grades for fearless and agile navigation, but eventually the afternoon traffic defeats me. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cleared at least to proceed into the city, the visitor would soon encounter a spectacle of urban grandeur widely celebrated in its time. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Sure, I hung out around Red Witch Bridge in the middle of the night, but that was in the cover of the trees with an urban legend and a baseball bat as weapons. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

A quarter to a third of the adult urban population is engaged fulltime in the nurture and education of the children. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even those tales of razors in Halloween candy are just urban rumors. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But what I especially liked was that its founders were focused less on parachuting Ivy Leaguers into urban communities and more on finding and cultivating talent that was already there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The government wanted to control the movements of all Africans, and such control was far more difficult in freehold urban townships, where blacks could own property, and people came and went as they pleased. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus Neolithic Europe never reached the level of social organization that produced the masonry architecture of Jericho or the dense urban community of Çatal Hüyük. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its rural population is still overwhelmingly New Guinean, but its urban population is Indonesian, as a result of government policy aimed at encouraging Indonesian immigration. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their leaders had been unable to stop urban renewal from rumbling through the heart of the black community like a tank overrunning an enemy redoubt. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a beautifully written story, but, more important, it was a story about the black urban experience. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was nothing more than an urban myth, but Rowan believed it just enough that it kept him from wanting to stand out. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Working a gallery was like sharing a crowded urban street with a higher- than-usual number of disturbed street people. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barack was more content to spend an evening alone, reading up on urban housing policy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Bounded by Central Park to the south, and lying between the Hudson and East Rivers, it was built up in the 1890s as an ultramodern urban environment for middle- and upper-class whites. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A compassionate, humane approach to the problems of the urban poor must replace the punitive practices and policies that have multiplied the harms associated with poverty and racial oppression. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

To instill a sense of loyalty to the Angkar and break what the Khmer Rouge views as an inadequate urban work ethic, the new people are given the hardest work and the longest hours. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The FBI was unable to tie Fuller to any crimes and NCF director George Esser, Jr., backed his man, adding a warning to all those who would attempt to kill the messenger of urban grievances. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When they built the expressways and had urban renewal, they destroyed a lot of that housing and built these high-rise buildings. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white poor have a vastly different experience in America than do poor people of color, as they are rarely relegated to racially segregated urban areas characterized by intense poverty. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Where San Franciscans saw an urban nuisance, Charles Howard saw opportunity. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Incredibly, hunters in the countryside captured tens of thousands of pigeons in nets and sent the living birds to urban hunting clubs for target practice. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

With well-practiced gallows humor, poor blacks dubbed the process “urban removal.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Industrialization has played a large role in introducing the urban African to the perceptions of status common to white society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He strides up to me with giant, urban strides and grabs my shoulders and pushes me back three feet. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

During the heyday of downsizing in the Reagan years, it very often was, and it still is for many inner-city residents who have no way of getting to the proliferating entry-level jobs on urban peripheries. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who stood the best chance of contracting TB, which was usually spread by the infected person coughing or sneezing, lived in crowded peasant huts, urban slums, shantytowns, prisons, or homeless shelters. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Maggie drives on through the simulator, finishing the highway portion, heading into an urban environment. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Is actually a thing and not just an urban myth. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Alongside the neat gray wharf sheds that lined the river and canal across the railroad tracks, Lew Pants huddled, a silent and smoky plea for urban renewal. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they say “urban” it means black and poor and possibly dangerous and potentially exciting. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Our preparations worried the government; four days before the election, the state ruled that a gathering of more than ten Africans in any urban area was illegal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was from the Transkei, but spoke English with a rapid urban fluency. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With every step on those cracked sidewalks, I passed a new signifier of urban decay. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When the people of the Norte Chico were building these cities, there was only one other urban complex on earth: Sumer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

What freedom am I being offered when I must ask for permission to live in an urban area? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many urban areas, the gap is far worse, rising to more than 37 percent in places like New York City. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Conservatives could point to black support for highly punitive approaches to dealing with the problems of the urban poor as “proof” that race had nothing to do with their “law and order” agenda. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

All the bombs explode within approximately ninety minutes of one another, rocking some of the biggest urban areas in America, including New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“And besides, it’s an urban creek,” I explain. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He knew nothing about cities or urban life, but he was convinced that he didn’t really have time to find out and still meet his flight-from-Idaho schedule. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The deserts of northern Mexico similarly separated the urban centers of southern Mexico from the chiefdoms of the Mississippi Valley. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But after the oil crash and the onset of the energy crisis, large cities had been flooded with refugees from surrounding suburban and rural areas, resulting in a massive urban housing shortage. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He became a pioneer in modern urban planning. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

For centuries in Europe, they had been forbidden to own land, so they had clustered in cities and towns, taking up urban trades and professions. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In one condition, the subjects walked in a dense urban environment and then tried to learn and remember information. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

One day, I was in Chicago, reporting a story about the history of segregation in the urban North and how it was engineered by government policy. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The excuse given by the government was slum clearance, a smoke screen for the government policy that regarded all urban areas as white areas where Africans were temporary residents. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walls had been constructed out of wood, scrap metal, cars, anything big and strong enough to protect what was inside: a mostly burned-out urban center. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The front was a photograph of urban row houses. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They are certainly an urban adaptation of the fundamental Karhidish institution of the Hearth, though lacking, of course, the topical and genealogical stability of the Hearth. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In any case thousands of individuals remained, most of them constellated in urban areas where they could physically see one another, take heart at their mutual presence. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The blue-collar factory jobs that had been plentiful in urban areas in the 1950s and 1960s had suddenly disappeared. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In many cases, the relatively privileged black elite turned against the black urban poor, condemning them and distancing themselves, while at the same time presenting themselves as legitimate spokespeople for the disadvantaged. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were no signs of poverty, no signs of homelessness, no signs of drug abuse, no signs of the social fissures that were tearing apart America’s urban centers to the east and west. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a reward, I took a handful of them to see the documentary Hoop Dreams, because both the book and the movie deal with what it’s like to grow up in an urban community. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was all about President Johnson trying to get a bill passed to help the urban poor, and then something about the Pueblo, which had been taken over by the North Koreans. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back then when Bodega was a teenager, the Young Lords were an urban guerrilla group that had its origins in Chicago, but they made all their noise in El Barrio. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

A lot of people gave up on Newark, and the city became synonymous with urban decay, unemployment, and poverty. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The incident revealed a pair of explorers still finding their way on the strange urban frontier. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women fared somewhat better during this period because the social-service sector in urban areas—which employs primarily women—was expanding at the same time manufacturing jobs were evaporating. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Yet, much as they professed to enjoy the stimulation and convenience of an urban neighborhood, they took relatively little advantage of it. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been lucky enough to get to walk into stone castles, urban classrooms, and Iowa kitchens, just trying to be myself, just trying to connect. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He had once flown a burning Corsair away from a densely populated urban area before bailing out. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Memphis was not a small town like Jackson; it was urban and I felt that no one would hold the trivial trouble I had had in Jackson against me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many were there for passes and permits to enable them to live and work in urban areas, to marry or move to another ghetto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it is a spirited country, is pollution-free, and has no urban slums and virtually no crime. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s an urban legend about that scoreboard, you know.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

On reflection, Cahokia’s dissimilarity to other cities is not surprising; having never seen a city, its citizens had to invent every aspect of urban life for themselves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

While some argue that it is attributable primarily to racial bias and discrimination, others maintain that it is due to poor education, unraveling morals, and a lack of thrift and perseverance among the urban poor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Although the strategy was primarily created for more urban areas, it could be adapted to rural ones. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was street-level urban politics, conducted house by house, block by block, the work sweaty and inglorious. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So,” Jacqui says to me, “is this part of the urban river experience, or are we lost?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Entire neighborhoods disappeared into the insatiable maw of urban renewal, displacing residents into an already tight housing market. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

For some, the notion that black communities are severely stigmatized and shamed by criminality is counterintuitive: if incarceration in many urban areas is the statistical norm, why isn’t it socially normative as well? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

These urban kids, however, were never truly given the chance to prove that if only given the opportunity, we could rise to the occasion; and rise to the occasion we have. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I remember District 8, an ugly urban place stinking of industrial fumes, the people housed in run-down tenements. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Within a five-year period, the homicide rate among young urban blacks quadrupled. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Behind it, Battersea Park appeared as a square of dense green bushes and trees that were making a last stand, fighting back the urban spread. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

There are gay people in Clover City, I’m sure, but the ones I’ve heard of have been treated as urban legends or cautionary tales. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

An army tank led me into urban battle once; a swimming pool turned me into myth; I’ve left my body in order to occupy others—and all this happened before I turned sixteen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They constituted the sort of criminals, petty and otherwise, who sucked the life out of urban areas. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Greenberg, who already owned a similar number of houses in the section, was expanding his holdings to exploit the housing crunch caused by urban renewal. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

One ran along the Pacific Coast from an urban area in western Mexico all the way to northern Alaska. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until someone realized that “tracking” is wrong that the stereotyped “at risk” urban high school kids were given their chance. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Practically from cradle to grave, black men in urban ghettos are treated like current or future criminals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Nationwide, nearly seven out of eight people living in high-poverty urban areas are members of a minority group. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The scene at the outdoor chess tables in Washington Square Park was a mélange of urban vitality and color. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My team and I visited community colleges and some of the big urban high schools around Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Whites feared the beginning of urban guerilla war. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Urging the urban poor—or anyone—to live up to their highest ideals and values is a good thing, as it demonstrates confidence in the ability of all people to stretch, grow, and evolve. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was a place called Thr3ads, which specialized in “high-tech urban street wear.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The quiet urban scene was a carefully staged KGB setup. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bodega would invite her to rallies, to the Lords’ headquarters at 202 East 117th, to Marxist education classes, to urban military tactics classes, to food drives. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

As a result, the Democratic New Deal coalition evolved into an alliance of urban ethnic groups and the white South that dominated electoral politics from 1932 to the early 1960s. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Despite being an urban black girl, she dressed like a preppy out of central casting, wearing saddle shoes and pink sweaters and somehow managing to pull off the look. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was a cheap hotel, the kind where you always are thinking about urban legends. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What passed for public school at the time was a haphazard assortment of locally run one-room schoolhouses and overcrowded urban classrooms scattered around the country. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The black girls spoke with an urban lingo I did not know, and they sometimes said I sounded “white,” just like the kids at my last school had said. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He has sung whole love songs to the cynical crowds, told tall stories of courage and honor, doing all this without any mythic display, without savvy, almost embarrassing the urban throng. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d spent most of my early life in the crumbling east end of the city, surrounded by urban decay and concrete waste where the skyline looked like a ruined mouth of rotted teeth. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

These tensions and animosities would brew and simmer for many decades, and eventually they would result in urban unrest on a grand scale in the twentieth century. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every subject was given its own binder: dogs, cats, horses, farm animals, woodland animals, flowers, fruits and vegetables, rural landscapes, urban landscapes, men’s faces, women’s faces, men’s bodies, women’s bodies, and hands-feet- bottoms-and-other-miscellaneous body parts. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t have a skill specific to the urban economy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In the weeks before the dinner I went on several urban scouting expeditions. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The picturesque suburban township of Maplewood felt about as far away from urban decay as one can imagine. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When urban renewal tore down my parents’ laundry and paved over our slum for a parking lot, I only made up gun and knife fantasies and did nothing useful. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, in Iran's urban areas, the great majority of the younger generation tend to meet their significant others on their own. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The young, photogenic Yale-, Oxford-, and Harvard-educated lawyer had learned just how confounding the problems of urban America were. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Only about a quarter of felony defendants in large urban counties were charged with a violent offense in 2006. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This allowed the urban rich to flaunt their wealth while the rural poor struggled to feed and clothe their families. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Dad was a partner in an architecture firm that mostly designed museums and concert halls and other “centerpieces for urban living.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

With criminal records, the majority of young black men in urban areas are not seen as attractive plaintiffs for civil rights litigation or good “poster boys” for media advocacy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the late nineteenth century, Irish and German immigrants served the urban upper and middle classes, then left for the factories as soon as they could. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Manufacturing jobs, however, have all but disappeared from the urban core during the past thirty years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

On the dictating tape, a voice referred to urban guerrillas. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around her, the urban wilderness churned with cricket calls and the gentle swoosh of trees. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

This claim would spark a belief that still seethes to this day, especially among urban blacks, that the CIA itself was the chief sponsor of the American crack trade. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Because most new prison construction occurs in predominately white, rural areas, these communities benefit from inflated population totals at the expense of the urban, overwhelmingly minority communities from which people in prison frequently come. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The campaign never expanded beyond the initial stage of small batches of mostly urban defiers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gazed upon this urban hurly-burly like someone observing a city from a hot-air balloon. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, these rescue efforts gave way to black endorsement of harmful policies aimed at the urban poor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He’d won significant majorities among blacks, whites, and Latinos; men and women; rich and poor; urban, suburban, and rural. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In poor urban neighborhoods across the United States, black and brown boys routinely have multiple encounters with the police. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Finally, there is Hamilton’s enshrinement of the urban elite—the merchants, bankers, and business leaders—as the central figures in the emergent American society. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

This kind of hostility bewildered them; they saw it not as an inevitable part of urban life, but as something personal and hurtful. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Violence flared in urban communities, not simply because of the new drug—crack—but because of the massive crackdown, which radically reshaped the traditional life course for young black men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Much of the flow in the urban waterways is partially treated sewage, but some stretches are clean enough to draw kayakers to the channels and restaurants and housing developments along the banks. EPA approves Chicago River water standards 2011-11-06T23:00:00Z

Sadly, however, her life ended with suicide after she was persecuted by anti-choice activists — unless you believe the urban legends about her escape. "Patients would come 9 or 10 times": What we can learn from the first time abortion was banned 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

“Maybe we will help usher in a new era in urban fire pits,” she said. Noted: In Brooklyn Fire Pits Are All the Rage 2013-12-12T00:52:57Z

It takes a sure hand to craft a series that blends a pair of young musical strivers from a downtrodden urban neighborhood — while keeping the series touching, relatable and funny. 'Black Mirror,' 'This Is Us,' 'Westworld' among year's best 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

A brisk promenade through a masterpiece of urban landscape design followed by an inviting, inventive meal—it was the perfect closure to an extraordinary week in the City of Light. Jewelry Designer Temple St. Clair Carr's Guide to Paris 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

Playwright Coble puts the increasingly prevalent urban encroachment by coyotes to excellent allegorical use. 'My Barking Dog's' two souls belatedly rediscover the natural world 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Commission on the Arts and Humanities, DeVille’s piece is intended to represent the dual challenges of gentrification and urban decay. After debate about aesthetics and politics, Anacostia artwork is removed

“Arts programs are for far more than an urban, middle-class, educated audience,” Ms. Ryder said. Seamus Heaney Work Wins Contest Honoring Ireland’s Poets and Its Past 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

Chicago: Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore The urban beaches that front Lake Michigan get way too crowded in the Windy City’s few warm months. Summer Travel 2014: Escape From Your Business Trip 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

But the Detroit native got passionate about taking house and techno back to the urban core and people of color, and away from an EDM mainstream that was gathered in that very room. IMS Engage: Chuck D, Seth Troxler and Kaskade on the state of EDM 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

McCrate is excited about the idea of integrating urban agriculture into the new generation of buildings going up in Seattle. Colin McCrate takes farming to the streets — and rooftops 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

“This would be perfect for an urban triathlon, but there’s not a Citi Bike station nearby,” mused Mr. Leak, 27, whose later-in-the-day job is event management. The Early-Morning Workout Flash Mob 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

He worked with Haines to place his tower near a parking lot so it could serve a more urban animal population. Artists devise wildlife-friendly works for San Francisco's Presidio 2010-06-03T20:50:00Z

I had one last stop on my circuit: a small urban outpost of Dutch giant Bols. In the Netherlands, a foray into cocktail history 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

The group show at Epicure Cafe is titled “Divine,” but the group that organized it is the Bunnyman Bridge Collective, named for an urban legend about a bunny-suited killer. In the galleries: Photos that take twists and turns at Civilian Art Projects 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Every structure is multipurpose to accommodate numerous programs for art, urban farming, skills building, and the reclamation of local identity through oral histories and found artifacts. Can Architecture Build Values, Too? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Export: Opus Jazz” is a plotless and more peaceful sibling to “West Side Story” in its connection of jazziness to urban youth. Dance Review: Balanchine?s Riffs on Petipa, and Tchaikovsky?s Riffs on Mozart 2011-01-21T23:14:02Z

Long lines at certain polling places: Elections in urban areas must present such wrenching choices that people take hours to ponder their options. Style Invitational Week 1450: Putting ‘anoid’ in humanoid 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

Certain familiar themes of the African American story — slavery, Jim Crow, urban migration, civil disobedience — are present, but at the margins. For the people of Lyles Station, Ind., a trip to the African American Museum lets them witness their legacy 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

The car is not an alien presence; it is part of the urban fabric. Last Chance: ?Cars, Culture, and the City? at Museum of the City of New York 2010-07-19T22:03:00Z

To some Mr. Smith’s contribution might feel like urban scrawl, but he described his vision as “more of a mannered style of graffiti.” Inside Art: Josh Smith in Venice And Connecticut 2011-04-14T21:03:10Z

Younger urban birders — yubbies? — like those led by Ms. Adams are the new faces in the birding world. Young Urban Birders, Open Your Hearts to the Treetops! 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

Growing ever more confident, Danielle is now a master of the clipped urban headshake; her muttered "c'mon"s are some of the finest R&B interjections this side of Pharrell Williams. Haim – review 2013-06-02T19:05:01Z

But I truly believe that the people who do the serious work of hunting don't need lectures from sanctimonious urban chalk-wielders. Turns out our stereotypes of hunting are really about our own fear of death 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z

Elkin, who learned the pleasures of aimless urban wandering in Paris, combines memoir and travel writing with capsule biographies of walking women like Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and George Sand. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Maybe if you’re a young urban hipster — the kind of person who believes that “privacy was something old people fussed over” — these excerpts won’t raise your eyebrows. The billion-dollar business of online dating 2013-02-28T00:10:44Z

The urban legend took root in 1969, following the release of the Beatles’ Abbey Road. Why fans think Avril Lavigne died and was replaced by a clone called Melissa 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

He watched countless 1940s films, and the book analyzes how ’40s moviemakers “emphasized a parallel between neon signs and various idioms of urban vice, particularly alcohol.” Antiques: Vintage Neon Signs and the Neon Museum in Las Vegas 2012-10-18T22:11:06Z

One reason so many Americans like Scandinavian crime fiction, I suspect, is that it evokes a world so reassuringly different from the urban, tasteful, design-loving socialist paradises we sometimes imagine and envy. Jo Nesbo’s New Book Stars an Antisocial Loner. It’s Not Harry Hole. 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z

The spiritual dimension of “Paradise Regained” is balanced by the artist’s tongue-in-cheek view of urban life, where men and women only return to a natural state indoors, where everything is unnatural. Duane Michals Searches the Morgan and Finds Himself 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

A respite from urban life and a love for nature drew Cricket from New York City to Key West. Key West: A Writer's Town 2011-04-14T14:50:16.727Z

Bright and breezy new film Anuvahood is probably the first British urban comedy, one in the mould of American films such as Friday. Jason Solomons's Trailer Trash 2011-03-13T00:05:37Z

Stripped of the people who move through them, these urban landscapes force the viewer to consider the patterns in our lives and the essence of our built environment. Review: Painter chases Seattle's buildup, tearing down 2010-05-20T21:13:00Z

Ms. Singletary said the design team has used the opportunity to show off “the less urban areas, the parks, and things like that” of their fantasy metropolis. Pack Your Bags, We’re Moving to ‘Roku City’ 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

She sought to draw portraits of black life different from stories in modern urban settings or in the time of slavery. Joyce Carol Thomas, children’s author who accented black rural life, dies at 78 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

Photographs of Mr. Jones’s grueling urban performances in the 1970s are included in this show, as well as recent drawings, often over photographs. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

In it the highway links sweeping literary ambition and local interest, lyrical and documentary photography, portraiture and the urban landscape. Art Review: ?Zoe Strauss: Ten Years? at Philadelphia Museum of Art - Review 2012-01-12T23:57:45Z

The migration of art galleries to dubious neighborhoods and their consequent transformation is of course a time-honored urban path to gentrification. Scene/ Seen: Art and Artisans Flourish After Apartheid 2011-02-04T12:00:05Z

“I think the urban fiction imprint is an easy way out,” he said. Prodigy’s ‘H.N.I.C.,’ Street Lit From Infamous Books 2013-05-31T21:16:57Z

Dressed in a sober gray suit, her blue surgical mask double-looped over her ears, she navigates a tableau of bustling urban banality, her own stress visible in her eyes and brows. ‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’ Review: No Sex, Please, We’re Romanian 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

At last, our urban badlands acquire the charisma hitherto flaunted only by their transatlantic counterparts. Ill Manors just wants a little respect for our gangsters 2012-06-06T11:07:56Z

While traditional graffiti may often be seen as a sign of urban decay, these murals — sprawling, brightly colored portraits and designs — aim to instill some optimism. Putting a Good Face on Street Art, to Upgrade Atlanta 2012-08-18T02:56:36Z

One of her first attempts to adapt to the hard-boiled urban environment was to pepper her conversation with what she called “cuss words.” Katie Finneran Performs ‘It Might Be You’ at 54 Below 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

But it also specialises in urban one-offs, marvels that are not quite like anything anywhere else. The tragic battle for Hastings 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z

Many became early colorized photo postcards, illustrating tourist destinations and the oddities of urban life. The remarkable vision of 'An American Odyssey' 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

This small urban community oasis is set back from the madness of busy Hackney on a disused train line. Great parks and green spaces in the UK: readers’ travel tips 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

In major urban centers, natural disasters have forced massive evacuations, leaving extreme racers with an enormous playground. Game On: 'Apocalypse' chaotic brilliance 2011-05-04T17:29:04Z

But correction of the apparent urban legend about the Packard sign was published late last year; Plagens' book was probably on its way to the printer. What is an artist? Peter Plagens' 'Bruce Nauman' illuminates 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

As seen in smaller cities, urban farming may be the key for cities to be less reliant on rural areas, and also help achieve food security. 54 million people in the U.S. may go hungry during the pandemic — can urban farms help? 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

Unsurprisingly, the world of fundamentalist Christians is absolutely crawling with conspiracy theories, urban legends, and just plain bizarre beliefs about how the world works. 10 weirdest right-wing Christian conspiracy theories 2013-09-05T17:28:00Z

He also works and dance music into the material he writes, introducing urban sounds into the concert hall. Gabriel Prokofiev gets the Proms into the groove 2011-07-28T20:29:01Z

There's plenty to think about if the Nigerian city of 16 million tightly packed inhabitants is the ultimate expression of modern urban living. Welcome to Lagos: Nigeria's dirt poor 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z

The shifting power dynamics of today’s urban neighborhoods are reflected even in issues of food and nutrition. Gentrification’s insidious violence: The truth about American cities 2014-04-08T18:34:00Z

In 1984 Mr. McLaren released the album “Fans,” a mixture of opera and urban music, which included the hit single “Madame Butterfly.” Malcolm McLaren, Seminal Punk Figure, Dies at 64 2010-04-08T23:26:00Z

It was a gorgeous nocturnal vision of Washington, twinkling with lights, full of pedestrian bustle and lively urban energies. Is architect Bjarke Ingels’s bold remake of the Smithsonian Castle grounds mere folly?

Carell, 50, also credited the film's urban soundtrack, composed by R&B star Pharrell Williams, for bringing an unique edge to the film. Gru's band of Minions take spotlight in 'Despicable Me 2' 2013-07-03T02:42:48Z

The aim was to provide a public instrument of moral education for the new urban working class. Santa Barbara's 'Botticelli, Titian and Beyond' a quirky gem 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

For the Stranded Yoga Faithful, the Zen Is Gone With the Electricity What sophisticated urban dweller hasn’t entertained the uneasy fantasy of being stranded in the country during a catastrophe without power, communication or transportation? Movie Review: ‘First Winter,’ a Benjamin Dickinson Film 2012-11-16T00:09:10Z

When choosing the winner, the judges will consider entries which creatively portray modern urban life in London. Zadie Smith's London - competition 2013-06-10T09:36:52Z

Over decades, it became a widely known, and widely disbelieved, tale in Inwood saloons and among Donohue’s fellow sandhogs, the urban miners who dig train and water tunnels deep in the city’s bedrock. For the Love of Beer and His Buddies 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

The fourth season takes the show on the road, moving back in time to 1950 and several states south, to the urban setting of Kansas City. ‘Fargo’ Review: Kansas City, Here We Come 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Love and death fuel many an opera, but “La Bohème” was one of the first set in an iconoclastic urban milieu. ‘La Bohème’: Puccini’s bohemians live on, in opera and in life 2013-02-14T23:41:36Z

The air becomes fragrant near the corner of Fern Dell Drive and Los Feliz Boulevard on the edges of Griffith Park, the largest municipal park with an urban wilderness area in the United States. Los Angeles, as a Pedestrian 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

At Zwirner in Chelsea, the much larger “Light Break” treats the full range of his interests, from the civil rights movement to images of urban workers, landscapes and parks. The Photographer Who Found His Power in Shades of Gray 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Sometimes the urban issues are the same as the rural ones. Rev and The Interceptors 2010-06-29T07:00:00Z

Do we seem to be entering the kind of period we were in in the 1960s, with major waves of urban violence? Racial injustice, anger and the power of visibility: “In order to have change, things have to get worse” 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

Before Kidulthood, films about urban Britain were essentially an offshoot of the social-realist tradition for which this country is famous – and as worthy as that implies. The lighter side of youth crime: urban film spoofs 2011-03-10T22:29:00Z

“Murder House,” “Asylum,” “Coven,” “Freak Show,” “Hotel” and “Roanoke” are witty, grotesque expansions of horror Americana with a healthy dose of urban legend tossed in for good measure. Bring on the witching hours: “AHS: Apocalypse” and the sisterhood that will save us 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

But just because the data don’t show a direct link between art and gentrification doesn’t mean that urban planners haven’t gotten wise to the cachet that artists bring to a neighborhood. How artists became capitalist 'foot soldiers' in the gentrification wars: Case study, Boyle Heights 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

She invited me to visit Owl Moon and learn about the threats that plague urban raptors. Life Is Hazardous for Urban Raptors. These Women Offer Hope. 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

Some of her past works in Philadelphia include a musical garden at SpArc Servicesand the Deep Roots series of installations at two of the city’s urban farms. The artist creating urban farms to feed Philadelphia 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

Our Voices Our Stories Issues faced by women, urban youth and the disabled are explored in monologues, music and dance. L.A. theater openings, July 19-26: 'El Grande Circus de Coca-Cola' and more 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

He also started a program in Chicago called Swervin’ Through Stress aimed at giving urban youths tools to navigate mental health. Rapper G Herbo charged with lying to federal investigators 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

Both are urban planners in their late 30s who have recently moved back to New York from Phoenix after a bitter divorce, but from there the road diverges. Idina Menzel is radiant in the flawed 'If/Then' at the Pantages 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

Participants, from 30 countries, included museum directors, gallery owners, curators, auction houses, collectors, entrepreneurs, investors, financial institutions, lawyers, artists, architects, urban planners and government officials, as well as corporate and civic leaders. Dialogues on the Arts 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

Steele also takes over a department of architecture and urban design that is without a permanent chair. Brett Steele, head of London's Architectural Assn., named a dean at UCLA 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

From the early 1800s through the early 20th century, Coney Island was widely regarded as the world’s greatest urban amusement park. Remaking Coney Island 2012-07-07T12:00:00Z

A sequel to the acclaimed monograph Natural Architecture, Francesca Tatarella’s latest tome focuses on today’s most compelling structural works—from urban art installations to rural huts—that turn earthy elements into works of awe-inspiring beauty. Natural Architecture Gets the Spotlight in a New Book 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

And it is situated at the just opened “gay urban resort” OUT NYC, so that even after jaded New Yorkers think it has lost its luster, there will still be plenty of tourists around. Bo?te: XL, a Large New Gay Club in Hell?s Kitchen 2012-03-07T21:58:12Z

Its sensibility wasn’t quite rural, and it certainly wasn’t urban—though elements of soul and gospel flecked the record as well. An Obsessive Listen to a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Album 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

In Austin, Texas, backyard farms and urban gardens sell ingredients to restaurants and markets throughout the region, as do similar projects in Los Angeles. 54 million people in the U.S. may go hungry during the pandemic — can urban farms help? 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

They interview parents and students, teachers and politicians, and landlords and activists to illuminate a thorny urban upheaval happening across the country. Podcasts for Horoscopes, Adulting and Phish Fans: Here’s What’s New 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

It’s a call for politicians to start balancing out the endless chorus of praise for the Heartland with some much-deserved rhetoric extolling urban virtues. Do Democrats hate cities? 2012-09-08T17:00:00Z

In urban terms, the changes the Hammer is proposing are more dramatic. Building Type: Hammer Museum finally cues up a big expansion. Here's an early look 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Two famous urban scenes painted by Vermeer still exist, for example: “View of Delft” and “The Little Street,” both currently on display in Amsterdam. How Hard Is It to Paint Like Vermeer? TV Contestants Find Out. 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

“Obvious Child” treads more cautiously over the landscape of modern urban womanhood than some of its television sisters. Jenny Slate Considers Abortion in ‘Obvious Child’ 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Most research on crop pollination has focused on rural areas, leaving us with limited information about urban settings. Bees and hoverflies are key to growing more fruit and veg in cities 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

“We did the Boy Scouts, but we are urban people,” said his childhood best friend James McCollum, now a lawyer in Washington. Few minorities visit Sequoia National Forest or the Sawtooth Wilderness. This man wants to change that. 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

Instead, he takes the blue-collar aspects of American culture that have seeped into rock-and-roll — the gritty, the urban, the been-to-hell-and-back cool — and elevates it all. Can a high-end boutique prosper in Detroit? John Varvatos has a vision. 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

“I want to mix luxurious gastronomy and urban style,” he said. In Transit: In Paris, Tattoos and a Slice of Cake While You Wait 2011-03-01T11:00:48Z

The fourth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, from Sept. 17 through Dec. 18, focuses on the untapped potential of the urban landscape. A Panorama of Design 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

And urban culture, with its tilt toward black celebrities, dominates the national arts scene. Obama dropped the mic. And made the pop culture world see politics as cool. 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

The Danish restaurant Noma, consistently ranked among the world’s best, will close at the end of 2016, to reopen as an “urban farm” in Copenhagen. Noma, One of the World's Top Restaurants, to Close 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

In the recent movie version of “In the Heights,” the Lin-Manuel Miranda musical, an urban intersection and an oceanic swimming pool frame the most exhilarating dance numbers. Perspective | The best dance, on your laptop: Young risk-takers are going outdoors to create short, raw films 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

Ms. Joseph said the board had not yet thought about where the academy might relocate, though she mentioned the possibility of a “little urban pioneering.” National Academy Plans to Sell Two Fifth Avenue Buildings 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

"This idea of an über urban environment with buildings rising a mile high into the sky was almost inconceivable." Comic lawman Dredd's Scots roots 2012-08-14T05:37:40Z

I like what this novel is trying to do, in bringing an environmental consciousness to 21st-century urban life. Clay by Melissa Harrison – review 2013-01-25T22:55:01Z

As Kravitz puts it, “they told me that I couldn’t get an audition for a small role they were casting because they weren’t ‘going urban.’ Zoë Kravitz told she was too “urban” for “Dark Night Rises” role 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

A bartender who recognizes the extraordinary romance in the night air enough to hand over a free bottle of wine, and a not-at-all-dangerous urban park in which to lie and drink that wine. It’s good to be pretentious! 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z

In California, urban falconers are hoping their jobs will be recession-proof. How to Make It in America as a Professional Falconer 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

Ghosh directed about 20 feature films in the Bengali language, mostly dealing with the dilemmas of India's urban middle class. Award-winning Indian director Ghosh dies at 49 2013-05-30T15:28:09Z

Alfaro's handling offers rewards of another sort: This richly detailed story lures in a new audience with its gritty urban setting and modern Angeleno accents. 'Mojada' at the Getty Villa convincingly updates Greek tragedy to modern-day L.A. 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

Just as Roberts sees the evolution of his company into a tech player, he envisions the new building as the urban East Coast equivalent to the thriving campuses of Silicon Valley. CEO Brian Roberts bulks up Comcast for the future 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

For many working class queer men in urban centres such as New York around the turn of the 20th century, camp was a tactic for the communication and affirmation of non-normative sexualities and genders. LGBT+ history: The story of camp, from Little Richard to Lil Nas X 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z

It was meant to bring prosperity and happiness into an urban environment. Domestic bliss 2011-06-24T07:47:40Z

To reunify this broken land, an international company has been hired to build a highway connecting the rural south to the urban north. Review | Dave Eggers’s ‘The Parade’ is a heartbreaking work of staggering cynicism 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

Just as there is a split between Michael and Lulu, there is also a divide between the urban and the rural. I Heart Peterborough – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-27T17:00:10Z

Brown's "Fortune" was nominated for best urban contemporary album at Sunday's Grammys, but Frank Ocean walked off with the award. Chris Brown shows up at Grammys smiling after car crash 2013-02-11T02:27:35Z

The production happily fulfills its creators’ stated intentions of delivering a “Comedy” that captures the eternal, energizing joys and perils of urban flux. | London Theater Journal: Revenge Served Sticky, and Cleanly Staged Comedy 2012-02-07T16:07:11Z

Cable network Bravo is airing a reality show that pulls back the curtain on urban theater super-producer JD Lawrence’s play “Your Husband Is Cheating on Us.” Fans love it. Critics don’t. After Tyler Perry, can urban theater cross over? 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

How do you connect to that in urban Los Angeles? Nick Offerman on 'great scam artist' Tom Sawyer and his favorite writers 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

It crossed over into British urban music in the early 2010s. Rappers With African Roots Bridge a Hip-Hop Divide 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

Constructed to withstand the elements but chic enough for urban gardeners, Snow Peak’s bucket can be used to forage for mushrooms in a forest or transport vegetables from rooftop garden to apartment kitchen. A ‘Plant-Based’ Gift Guide 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

The surprise may not be pleasant, but it appears that Tolman — a Wheaton native — prefers the urban enigma to suburban certainty. In the galleries: City life, and the possible menace that lies beneath 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

The best thing about “Longmire,” which is based on the mystery novels of Craig Johnson, is that it looks and feels quite different from the urban cop shows that predominate on television. Television Review: ‘Longmire,’ on A&E, a Police Drama With a Western Twist 2012-06-01T21:38:17Z

It led to mass migration from the rural south to the urban north: quite apart from the human impact, this had a huge effect on American music. London jazz festival 2012: from Herbie Hancock and Esperanza Spalding to John Paul Jones – what to see 2012-11-07T12:56:00Z

But except for its identification of actual police officers, “Stonewall” doesn’t bother to distinguish among facts, fiction and urban legend. For ‘Stonewall,’ an Indiana-Born Avatar 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

On courses temporarily constructed, like pop-up playgrounds, in a series of curated urban locales—along the Venice beachfront, around Indianapolis’s Monument Circle—contestants support and propel their bodies in feats of unthinkable exertion. The Great American Obstacle Course 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

They get their musical inspiration from people's struggle to win back their self-esteem and therefore reflect urban life complications in their alternative rock sound, which is often danceable and catchy. December's best music from across the MAP 2012-12-19T10:00:00Z

But there's a broad range of styles that tap into the trend, from crisp dress clothes inspired by officers to the more hipster interpretation of the urban warrior. Yes sir! Fashion Week trends going military 2012-02-11T20:32:09Z

Another way of using “Four Lost Cities” is as a compendium of archaeological findings on humanity’s urban origins. Searching for Our Urban Future in the Ruins of the Past 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

“Gabi is an urban historian ... creating a diary of who we are now as he fashions his works of art,” Garfield says. ‘Seattle Sketcher’ Gabriel Campanario’s work at MOHAI 2014-01-09T21:06:32Z

Dhalgren,” published in 1975—and one of the more difficult novels in any genre—describes the exploits of the Kid in a post-apocalyptic urban waste virtually devoid of any access to the outside world. Samuel Delany and the Past and Future of Science Fiction 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

The tagline of the film is "A year in the life of a city grappling with urban violence". Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z

But a cap is only the beginning of the fight against urban congestion. Uber and the Ongoing Erasure of Public Life 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

Her nods included "Drunk in Love" for best R&B performance and best R&B song, and "Beyonce" for best urban contemporary album. Sam Smith, Beyoncé, Pharrell lead Grammy nominations 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

His scowling appearance and his withdrawn temperament are a bit of a shock: his usual persona, a bright urban boy whose mind races ahead of the world, had seemed too good to give up. David Denby: Jesse Eisenberg Explores His Dark Side 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

The overall architectural strategy brings to mind some of the ideas that inspired Baron Haussmann’s 19th-century vision of Paris: tear new channels through the urban fabric, unclog blocked arteries, create new sites for public spectacle. Architecture Review: The Greening of Lincoln Center 2010-05-20T22:17:00Z

They summon their urban life with a novelist’s ear for the telling grotesque detail — in accounts of apartment building lobbies where everything looks and smells like soup, or diners where the coffee is always gray. Review: ‘Oh, Hello on Broadway’ Stars an Even Odder Couple 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

It just won the Man Booker Prize: a caustic racial satire that will change how you think about Clarence Thomas and urban farming. Stay alive until November 9! Tips for stress relief and self-care during election-pocalypse 2016 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

“Broad City” often stretches ordinary female and urban experiences to the point of absurdity. The Secret Weapons of ‘Broad City’ Make Fine Art From Crude Humor 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

They tried to turn him into an urban star, which he isn't. "Idol" producer says show back from dark side 2011-02-02T04:37:23Z

It’s the urban world we know, deconstructed and reassembled. ‘Surveillance,’ a Dance Work at New York Live Arts 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

But in the Latin field, “urban” was dropped from one category yet added to another. Grammys Tweak Use of ‘Urban’ as Music Industry Weighs a Loaded Term 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

There's something undeniably warm and wholesome about the trend towards what some would describe as "urban homesteading," but there's also something strange and vaguely futile about the whole thing, too. "At Home with Amy Sedaris" is the kind of pandemic cooking content we deserve 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Because these issues make it exceptionally difficult to make a living as a coffee farmer, the average age for smallholders is 50-plus, as young people seek more stable and lucrative employment in urban centers. What does the term "ethical coffee" actually mean? 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z

The goal of this urban exhibition is to raise awareness and funds for the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research facility slated to open next year. Spiral Sculptures by Top Architects and Designers Take Over London 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

There was no disrespect to the city in this: One reemerged energized, newly alert to the urban environment, more susceptible to its geometry and discord, promise and trauma. At the Whitney, a new structure forges a different relationship with the city 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

“When Brooke creates this consortium, it’s saying, How does the typology of a very urban space like Madison Square Park transfer,” he said. Making Public Art a Contender 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

He also soft-pedals true news, filming in passing a site where the chef hopes to open an urban farm and a new incarnation of Noma. Review: Inside the Chef René Redzepi’s World in ‘Noma: My Perfect Storm’ 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

“It’s affordable and it’s fun. The street stalls are very much part of Hong Kong culture, but they’ve been disappearing as part of the process of redevelopment and urban renewal.” Is Hong Kong really rioting over fishball stands? 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

At the urging of Muddy Waters, Mr. Berry took his demo tapes to Chess Records, the Chicago label that specialized in blues and urban rhythm-and-blues. Chuck Berry, wild man of rock who helped define its rebellious spirit, dies at 90 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

As the play begins, he is fresh from Manhattan, wearing an Armani suit and a jangle of urban vibes. Theater Review: ‘Dead Accounts’ With Katie Holmes at Music Box Theater 2012-11-30T03:00:15Z

Mr. Leth knows how to evoke a gritty urban ambience, along with a vertiginous unease. Movie Review: ?Man on a Ledge,? With Ed Harris as an Evil Real Estate Tycoon 2012-01-26T23:44:01Z

“Ching-Fang would be right at home if she were to create a great urban park in New York or London or Tokyo,” said county Planning Board Chairman Casey Anderson. In Montgomery County, she is reinventing the public park 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Then a second part deals with migration from the South to urban centers and the beginning of the professional classes. David Adjaye on Designing a Museum That Speaks a Different Language 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

From sleek urban apartments to rustic country homes, the inspiring projects showcase the firm’s versatility and commitment to designing spaces that are beautiful and functional. Carrier and Company’s Interior Designs 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

“It’s an urban myth that people don’t read labels — they just don’t read really dull ones.” A California Museum Gives the People What They Want 2010-05-13T14:46:00Z

Meanwhile, the best strategy for attracting graduates lies in creating jobs, as well as in offering both affordable housing and a range of housing options, including both reasonably priced urban and lower-density living. The U.S.' Biggest Brain Magnets 2011-02-10T23:00:00Z

And "GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth" screens Saturday at 2:30 only; it examines issues of urban and economic growth and overpopulation. At A Theater Near You: 'The Movement,' 'Harvey' and more 2011-12-01T21:53:08Z

It is a clear indication of Moscow’s broader ambition to be seen by the world as an enlightened developer of urban infrastructure. The Most Ambitious Park in Russia 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

Against a flickering projection of white light, Ms. Wu sets an assemblage of small objects that refer to images in the film: trains, an airplane, a mop, the silhouette of an urban skyline. 10 Galleries to Visit Now on the Lower East Side 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

The historian George Chauncey traces gay eating places in New York City back to the cheap urban dining halls that catered to unmarried workers in the late 19th century. Still Here and Still Queer: The Gay Restaurant Endures 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

RecoveryPark, on Detroit’s East Side, provides another model of urban farming entirely. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

Every image in “Memphis” quivers with a poetic intensity that captures the beauty and desolation of the urban South not pictured on tourist postcards. ‘Memphis,’ From Tim Sutton, Mixes Music and Mysticism 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

For decades after the liberation, the bunker, in the southern end of the city, languished in neglect, abandoned and visited only by urban sewer explorers or tagged and occupied by squatters. Where the Resistance Helped Plan the Liberation of Paris 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

He used Duke Ellington's music to put his own urban spin on gospel tradition with "Harlem Nutcracker." Spectrum's Donald Byrd asks everything of his dancers, and his audience 2012-11-28T23:59:27Z

That novel revolved around Darling, a 10-year-old living in a shantytown called Paradise whose adventures reveal the crushing poverty and injustice pervasive in urban peripheries. NoViolet Bulawayo Believes Freedom Begins With Imagination 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Once, during my scavenging days in the 1990s, I happened upon the monumental chandeliers from B. Altman’s 34th Street store in the cavernous warehouse of an urban archaeology outpost. New York’s Lost Department Stores 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

I thought this cookies business was an urban myth, but my experience this week tells me otherwise. Beware the cookies: they can cost you money 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z

The movie is a drama about a woman who misses her train and ends up in an urban underbelly. Toronto 2014: Reitman, Baumbach and Rock to premiere new films 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

Armitage's Screen with Folded Arms, from 1967, was always intended for an urban setting, while Kapoor's Sky Mirror offers topsy-turvy views of the surroundings, celebrating the cityscape and drowning in the sky. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-07-08T17:28:57Z

A research team at Hamilton College in New York examined 140 California crows and found that the more urban the bird, the higher its cholesterol. Fast food contributing to higher cholesterol in urban crows, study says 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

According to Billboard, Jay Sean led the way by becoming the first British urban artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart with "Down" in October 2009. UK hip-hop "on verge of breaking" U.S. :Diddy 2010-06-11T15:10:00Z

Rose Mary was a prolific artist who produced all kinds of paintings — rural landscapes, urban scenes, abstract fantasias, portraits, still lifes — but she could not bear to part with them. The Many Lives of Jeannette Walls 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z

Behind the world’s weight gain is the rapid transition from traditional foods, often grown in the community, to modern urban diets – and especially the take-up of sugary soft drinks and snacks. Global obesity rise puts UN goals on diet-related diseases 'beyond reach' 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Then she learns of an urban legend warning that players die for real when they die 13 times on the unbeatable 13th level. Young Adult Dystopian Fiction That Feels Pretty Real 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z

He joined the law firm, and he is coordinating an urban lecture series at University of Chicago as a distinguished senior fellow. Daley knew he was stepping aside for a year 2012-02-23T02:25:00Z

In a small, conservative north Yorkshire market town Beastie Boys sounded like nothing I'd heard before: snotty, urban, aggressive and more than slightly dysfunctional – every teenage boy's dream. My 10 favourite Beastie Boys tracks 2013-05-04T09:00:00Z

And there was that series about urban foxes on the telly. The Cunning Little Vixen brings animal magic to Glyndebourne 2012-05-17T19:00:08Z

The urban canines of Wallace’s new series “Well Heeled” are captured with a bright flash. The Resplendent Humanity of Dogs, Up Close 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

A streetcar is a tangible, lasting commitment to urban change. Critic’s Notebook: Imagining a Streetcar Line Along the Waterfront 2014-04-20T22:32:54Z

For an international urban destination with mild weather and reasonably priced flights, consider Mexico. Q&A: Christmas in Mexico for Two 2010-09-07T17:00:00Z

“It was the first time I realized I could be the lead onscreen, and it was very urban, emotional, about knife crime in London, a bit of a character stretch for me,” Mbatha-Raw said. With ‘Surface,’ Gugu Mbatha-Raw Steps Into New Territory 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

One obstacle to that future success is the mounting crisis in India’s urban job market. The Diverging Paths of Two Young Women Foretell the Fate of a Tribe in India 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Steven Dale, strategist at The Gondola Project, says: “Ten years ago people thought the idea of urban cable cars ludicrous. Now almost every city in the developing world wants one.” Urban cable cars: from transport solution to tourist attraction 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z

Ms. Jones refers to this as “me taking urban hip-hop and Justin Biebering it,” but it’s also practical because the names make the moves easier to teach. Twerking Their Way to a Sweaty Workout Nirvana 2014-03-12T23:27:10Z

A Scottish study looked at people’s brain waves as they strolled through three sections of Edinburgh — a shopping area, an urban park and a busy commercial district. In a bad mood? Exercise can help. Here’s the best way to do it. 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

The market’s current version, a long way from the 40-foot-long “city market” in 1802, is a 16-acre grid of stalls and one pavilion just north of the Capitol in the city’s urban core. It’s Winter. Let’s Go to the Farmers’ Market! 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

But was Patty Hearst, daughter of one of America’s great media families, really an unwilling urban guerrilla intent only on staying alive? That’s rich 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

A savvy celebration of a mythic urban sophistication, it is basically the sum of its epigrams and perfectly groomed star turns. Review: ‘All About Eve’ Gets the Vampire Treatment from Ivo van Hove 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lish said he was especially interested in the places where urban and rural begin to overlap — “who pops up next to who?” Atticus Lish’s Long Route to 'Preparation for the Next Life' 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

“I certainly think that people will prefer more space to spread out over dense urban core areas,” said Mr. Underwood. They Live Alone in Ghost Towns 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

Likewise in Green’s staging of urban class and racial conflict. In ‘The Kingdoms of Savannah,’ Oddballs Circle Around a Murder Mystery 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

But in a dense, urban environment like Washington, it’s the bombs that would have killed people — quickly and before anyone could seek cover. This nuclear fallout shelter was untouched for 55 years. It might come in handy now. 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

Expect a mix of urban, pop and R&B that’s heavy on soul, attitude and honesty. All of the L.A. arts events and exhibitions to check out this fall 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Cities loom in the distance throughout Jia's film, with bulldozers and construction sites a constant reminder that urban sprawl continues, encroaching on the lives of the characters. Iranian director's taut family saga rivets critics at Cannes 2013-05-17T14:04:48Z

Galen is a 22-year-old virgin, who has never met his father and lives with an overbearing mother on a walnut orchard enclosed by the urban sprawl of Sacramento. Dirt by David Vann - review 2012-06-22T21:55:03Z

Robert Olshansky, emeritus professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, sees a paradox in the term social distancing. Is ‘social distancing’ the wrong term? Expert prefers ‘physical distancing,’ and the WHO agrees. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

"It's this idea of clothes that fit a woman's more casual lifestyle, more active lifestyle, but that are still appropriate in an urban environment for city wear," she said. Neon, sportswear likely trends at NY fashion week 2011-09-07T19:02:28Z

Images of teeming urban life and infrastructure, again, are layered over one another. Seattle artists Linda Davidson and April Surgent: mosaic mavericks 2010-12-09T20:44:00Z

The film offers more substantive insights into pressing issues of public education and urban poverty than many political commentators muster in a career. | 'To Be Heard': ?To Be Heard? Gives 3 Teenagers a Voice ? Review 2011-10-11T22:18:09Z

The film itself couples the creep factor of a horror movie with the shiver-worthy reality that sometimes urban legends are more than just that. 15 of the Most Fascinating True Crime Stories Ever Told 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

Uptown Downtown, completed in 2008 is "an urban panorama in six movements" that celebrates life in New York. Rijnvos: Uptown Downtown – review 2012-08-02T21:23:01Z

But by the end of a decade marked by assassinations, urban riots and the Vietnam War, American tastes were moving away from such innocent, cornpone fare, and the series ended in 1971. Donna Douglas, the Fairest ‘Beverly Hillbilly,’ Dies at 82 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Its wry humor, urban sensibility and easy appropriation of pop culture were always what made it so appealingly accessible for kids – and tolerable for bleary-eyed parents. The viral genius of "Sesame Street" 2010-10-12T15:05:00Z

The images vaguely suggest an urban narrative, but, as in Chris Marker’s films, the drama lies in the long, ruminative wait. Art in Review: HILARY LLOYD 2011-08-04T22:00:07Z

It’s billed as the biggest urban bee collective in Europe, with hives placed in four public parks in the city. Milan gets buzzier with 1 million bees in designer hives 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

The ambience of urban demoralization extends to the light bulbs, which flicker weakly in the gloom. ‘The Batman’ Review: Who’ll Stop the Wayne? 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

“I think the software industry sees urban government as having failed.” Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun 2012-05-19T13:00:00Z

Later she finds herself on a shadowy urban skid row and, succumbing to despair, takes drugs. Cornerstone Theatre's nine-play cycle on hunger in America finds its inspiration in Mozart 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

The village is not so far from a city that urban resources are unavailable. | 'Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbors': Review: ‘Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbors’ 2012-07-15T21:14:48Z

His videos and photographs tend to tap into urban tribes and youth subcultures, with a cavalcade of topless rock chicks, black leather, grimy T-shirts and tattooed flesh. Artist of the week special: Asier Mendizabal, Alejandro Vidal, Adri? Juli? 2011-03-30T16:24:00Z

The backwater aesthetic and story of the show was a major part of it, and something that really set it apart from all the other urban crime dramas that litter the TV landscape. Forget Colin Farrell – here's how True Detective can stay great 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

Rooted in solid middle class values, these marriages are inherently modern, informed by urban influences. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Couples Fuel India's Vibrant Art Scene 2011-10-13T11:00:13Z

Both usages imply an antipathy to urban dwellers who were spared the labour of agricultural work. There's more to cockney culture than being born in earshot of Bow bells 2012-06-26T11:50:01Z

There, new pressures from international financial institutions have enhanced the legacies of colonial-era segregationist urban policy. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z

"Our key large urban East Coast markets were really killed" by the hurricane, said Bob Berney, president of theatrical distribution for FilmDistrict. "The Help" holds on at top of storm-hit box office 2011-08-29T15:05:12Z

"It's a great resource to the film community to have what amounts to one of the largest urban parks in North America available to us," Bonstin said. Griffith Park tops list of most popular L.A.-area filming sites 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Further, he might add, it represents a promising moment of urban otherness that, despite its clear financial motives and its popular, if not critical, appeal, remains somehow unseen in plain sight. 'Sidewalking' author David Ulin jumps feet first into trying to understand Los Angeles 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

The film is set on a cruddy, crime-ridden urban campus where a killer is on the loose. ‘The African Desperate’ Expands the Movies’ Narrow View of the Art World 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

This is real downtime talk, not saddled with rough urban fantasies. Review: A look at overlooked albums of 2012 2013-01-03T17:46:53Z

There it was: the quintessential New-York-or-die perspective that defines “Broad City,” in which Ms. Jacobson and Ms. Glazer play friends who embrace, duck and battle the oddities of young urban life. Young Comics Adapting ?Broad City? from Web to FX 2012-04-13T20:34:51Z

Many urban white people moved to the suburbs in the 1960s and, generally speaking, took their gangs with them. "West Side Story" may be timeless — but life in gangs today differs vastly from the Jets and Sharks 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

Meaning, "Abbott Elementary" can be used to educate on how dedicated teachers find the beauty in urban spaces. How real is "Abbott Elementary"? A former Philadelphia school teacher weighs in 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

Yi’s dreamy debut feature puts a defiantly queer spin on the familiar themes of art house Chinese cinema: the pains of rural emigration; the struggles of urban life. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

Acaster, who won the urban wildlife category and the £5000 top prize, called it a "real privilege" to be able to get so close to the wild bird. British Wildlife Photography Awards 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

The message from voters was clear: L.A., long ambivalent about density, the viability of public transit and tall buildings, is ready to embrace a more urban future. Architecture's top 10 for 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Those strings and scares elide what is authentically strange and really beautiful about this particular urban park. For These Shows, Take a Hike 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

One reason there are so many possible apartment museums, so many plaques on walls all over the city is that most artists in St Petersburg were urban nomads, moving from place to place. St Petersburg's homely tributes to Russia's great artists 2012-11-20T13:56:01Z

I encountered so many different building designs across climates, available resources, purposes and population densities that I developed an interest in architecture — especially of the unusual, eco-friendly, urban and underground varieties. A solo traveler learns about the world — and herself — after nearly a year abroad 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Casual urban clothing and tote bags fill the racks, but there is something special for nonshoppers, too: a brand museum chronicling 14 years in business and a rotating art gallery. Sales, Store Openings and Events From the Week of June 14 2012-06-13T18:39:35Z

Renowned architect Richard Rogers considers the Tuscan town of Pienza, now a world heritage site, as the first great attempt at a humanist urban design. Is Instagram changing the way we design the world? 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

They used this plant palette in all kinds of settings — small urban gardens, big civic projects, seaside landscapes and botanical gardens. Preserving a fleeting art form: The garden 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

In 2004, Wiley made this explicit in his single Wot U Call It, mocking the record shops, punters and media confused as to where to place him among house, garage, "urban" and grime. Grime watch: a decade of birth and renewal 2013-04-19T06:00:09Z

If you didn’t know any better, you’d probably mistake me for a lefty urban hipster. How America's identity politics went from inclusion to division 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

It sends groups of audience members out into an urban landscape armed with some cryptic clues to uncover a plot and seek out a secret map in a neighbourhood. The Human Comedy; Blood and Gifts; Accomplice 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

The restoration of the streets was an attempt to reknit the urban fabric and integrate the neighborhood. Rebuilding Ground Zero Was a Mess. Lower Manhattan Bloomed Anyway. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

Plus, it’s a good time to revisit this report from last year on how a lack of urban planning made the Houston area more vulnerable to disaster. Essential Arts & Culture: The ICA L.A. debuts, Latin America's 'Radical Women,' culture and Hurricane Harvey 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z

Sunday evening, Scalzi will host the annual Hugo Awards, the event that makes Worldcon important to people who don’t know urban fantasy from Urban Outfitters. Don’t sleep on the Hugo Awards 2012-08-31T17:06:00Z

The choice of cities isn’t a coincidence; Seattle and New York are two of the most cost-prohibitive urban areas in the country. Why a city block can be one of the loneliest places on earth 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

Instead, there were tight pants and a cropped sweater with a scribble of urban graffiti, while garter belts and hose showed a flash of thigh under perky little dresses. Special Report: Sleek, Simple-And Ever So Streamlined 2010-02-18T12:49:00Z

All these modern cliches are trotted out in an effort to encapsulate an intricate tale of an urban scheme mired in greed and disrespect. ‘You Don’t Have to Live Like This’ review: Trouble rebuilding Detroit 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

At times it looks more It's a Knockout, with enticingly silly events like an Urban Picnic Contest, a children's game to create public spaces, painting by catapult and urban guerrilla ping pong. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-06-22T15:10:34Z

Unlike the High Line, its nearby predecessor in the urban arms race of dazzling cultural trophies, circulation is less formal and linear. Review | An artificial island with a real upside 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

Paul Cézanne was a stubborn, self-absorbed grouch who spent his life in a rolling revolt against urban elites. Review | The sourest, meanest mouth in the history of portraiture 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

The day when China was a pedal-driven proletarian culture were long gone; the era of head-spinning urban speed, pollution, and technological encasement had began. From Innovation to Provocation, China’s Artists on a Global Path 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Connections so often centered on in-person events, particularly in urban areas. Your 2020 Virtual Pride Guide 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

I feared he would knock over some European tourist wielding a telephoto lens, but instead he spurred local Brazilians into action on this bumpy urban square. A passion for soccer helps unite one of the world’s most diverse countries 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Slighter but more successful, "Super Night Shot" involves Gob Squad on an urban rescue mission to save everyday Angelenos from the cruel fate of anonymity. Gob Squad jesters reel in REDCAT audience with mixed results 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

The Metro here sets a standard for urban subway systems: It’s easy to use and remarkably quiet; trains come frequently and go everywhere. In Paris, a New Music Hub Hums 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Green-Wood cemetery seemed a natural place to spend a few hours in the midst of a hectic urban tour. Want the ‘Real’ Brooklyn? Go Cheap 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Because more than 80 percent of the U.S. population lives in urban areas, that means rooftops, city gardens, old suburban yards, parking lots, utility easements, highway medians and the rest. Why manicured lawns should become a thing of the past 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

Coming mostly from Dublin, Cork and London, the festivalgoers bring with them aspects of their urban lives that are otherwise not readily available on the island, such as primal scream yoga, fermentation classes and tap-dancing. Turkfest: Ireland's little festival with a big heart – a photo essay 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Better still, this seemingly endless stockpile of urban art was free and open to the public — ideal for my frugal budget. In Melbourne, a Thriving (and Mostly Free) Art Scene 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

In this case, the site in question is a narrow slip of an urban alley between the Arcade Theatre and the Cameo Theatre on Broadway, two out-of-commission movie palaces built in 1910. The anonymous artists of the Griffith Park Teahouse now plan to rain flower petals on downtown L.A. 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

But in his Dorchester Avenue residence in the Grand Crossing neighborhood, discarded pieces of Chicago’s urban landscape are helping him create a house-turned-artwork-turned-incubator. Chicago News Cooperative: In Dorchester, a House Becomes a Home for Art 2011-04-08T03:34:41Z

Better yet, philosophers, such as Benjamin and Nietzsche, assert guiding principles throughout, lending humanity to the string of worrisome numbers and compendiums of bad urban planning. Venice is just the beginning — the West is sinking into a sea of commerce 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

“I would run races in New York where it was, like, me and 10,000 other athletic people,” says Ali, a Washington urban planner. These marathoners decided to sprint into a relationship. It paid off. 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

More to the point, those Grammys included, for the first time, a category titled urban/alternative performance. How the Soulquarians Birthed D’Angelo’s ‘Voodoo’ and Transformed Jazz 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

Hydroponic systems can mass-produce crops within high-tech urban greenhouses. Will hydroponics water down the meaning of organic? 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

In China, food courts like New World are on the rise precisely because they fulfill the urban Chinese’s desire to eat eclectically and economically, without the fuss and mess of preparation. Eating Alone in China 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

After such a long run of the urban red carpet dress — not least from Ms. Ferretti herself — it is interesting to see how fashion is turning toward something much less full on and more fairylike. Fashion Review: Nature Takes Over at Alberta Ferretti 2014-02-19T19:11:36Z

“It is the confluence of madness and urban blight,” he said. From Bittersweet Childhoods to ‘Moonlight’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

During the summer, he escaped urban life — and his career as a conductor — to compose in nature. Review: Mahler, Distilled by Classical Music’s Greatest Duo 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

The academy also consolidated four awards for various genres of rural Mexican music into two categories and put all the Latin pop, rock and urban music into a single contest. Grammy Award Cuts Still Face Some Opposition 2011-12-28T23:18:54Z

The initiative, in part, aims to educate urban dwellers in avoiding conflict. On Safari in the City: A Guide to Urban Wildlife Viewing 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

We live in an era of unprecedented urban migration. Architecture: For Some of the World?s Poor, Hope Comes Via Design 2011-10-21T19:17:11Z

And music with deep rural roots now regularly tells urban stories as well. Regional Mexican Music Is Finding More Ears. Peso Pluma Is Helping. 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

Lord Foster’s design, developed over a yearlong public consultation, features cultural buildings in a new urban quarter alongside an expansive public park. ArtsBeat: Norman Foster to Design Huge Hong Kong Cultural District 2011-03-04T18:00:23Z

But it was my mother’s ambition that we grow up free of the ruder influences of the urban sprawl. My life on the streets 2013-04-18T21:27:00Z

Auden, as well as less-celebrated characters, such as the homeless friend he celebrates as “an utterly independent human being, a sort of modern, urban Thoreau.” The beautiful mind of Oliver Sacks: How his knack for storytelling helped unlock the mysteries of the brain 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

The drama revolves around a criminal incident that blew a family apart years ago; “Moment” captures a brief encounter as they fleetingly reunite in their mother’s sub­urban kitchen. ‘Moment’ review: Kitchen-sink realism makes this Irish drama shine 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

In addition to the museum, it would include government offices, a bus depot, a link to the metro system and an urban forest. ArtsBeat: New Delhi Said to Plan Musuem Modeled on Tate Modern 2010-12-30T21:18:10Z

Her photographs of details of Indian architecture, urban and Islamic, of desert landscape and of weaving still on the loom were the visual sources for many of the drawings. Art in Review: Nasreen Mohamedi: ‘Becoming One’ 2014-01-16T22:49:27Z

The young generation sees only the negative part of this kind of urban existence. European Crises Pervade Films in Disappearing Act Festival 2012-04-09T19:17:29Z

The youngest of the cast and crew run off to London for an urban adventure, endangering everyone. The horror of Netflix's COVID "Bubble" is that celebrities – they're not just like us 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

It splices together scenes from science fiction movies in which urban landscapes are filled with stereotypical “Asian” signifiers, but the actual characters are almost exclusively white. Asian-American Artists, Now Activists, Push Back Against Hate 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

By the count of Ms. Schingler, who is starting an urban real estate development company focused on collaborative living, there are about 50 spaces similar to the Embassy officially operating in and around San Francisco. Bay Area Millennials are Flocking to Communes 2013-12-12T00:53:10Z

Far beyond the awe-inspiring evidence of his films, urban legends abound on the subject of Keaton’s ability to make a good landing. The silent-era film stars who risked life and limb doing their own film stunts 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

In the hustle and bustle of intense urban life, I often encounter people who say they don't have time to think. In Transit Blog: Yo-Yo Ma on the Magic of Tanglewood and the Berkshires 2012-07-06T14:54:55Z

In the early days of email we forwarded anything, no matter how incredible, breathing life into untold urban legends, from the HIV-tipped syringes hiding everywhere to Bill Gates’ never-ending Beta-testing email forwards. Dealing in uncertainty, the essay may be the perfect form for our time 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

“The West End,” Mr. Mellencamp’s song about urban decline, became a stomping indictment. Music Review: Kindred Spirits, Young and Mature 2010-10-21T22:10:00Z

Graham was deeply critical of the negative impact of mid-20th-century planning, which devastated urban communities with the construction of freeways, the expansion of the suburbs and the emptying of city centres. Bruce Graham obituary 2010-03-25T19:06:00Z

A flash flood warning was issued until 2 p.m. for urban areas and small streams in northern Lake County. Heavy storms deluge northern suburbs 2011-07-27T16:04:00Z

But starting on June 23, “A Bell for Every Minute,” a site-specific installation by the musician and sound artist Stephen Vitiello, will give strollers an urban concert of sorts. Inside Art: Steven A. Cohen Buys a Jasper Johns ?Flag? Tom Ford to Sell a Warhol Self-Portrait at Sotheby?s Stephen Vitiello Creates ?Bell? Project for High Line Park 2010-03-18T22:40:00Z

Well-appointed with stylish interiors of exposed brick walls painted burgundy and original factory floorboards, the store adds a discreet touch of London retro-chic to a trendy urban neighborhood. In Transit Blog: A New London Shop Specializing in Vintage 2011-08-29T10:00:08Z

Meanwhile, 400,000 others headed north, where they quickly registered to vote and fervently contributed to making blacks a signifi­cant urban political force. FDR’s most important lesson: Liberal causes could still inspire activism on a grand scale 2014-04-27T13:00:00Z

The original DuBois charts, made in collaboration with his students at Atlanta University in 1900, examined everything from urban migration to taxable property owned by African Americans in Georgia. Artist Theaster Gates on W.E.B. DuBois and what Donald Trump doesn't get about Chicago 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

I see myself writing in the tradition of urban ethnography and in the tradition of the sociology of poverty. America's housing crisis: 'A problem we need to hate more’ 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

The Mojito Miami Beach Party is every Tuesday over summer, and full of stylish urban and Latin flavours. This week's new clubs 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z

“Whenever we — and I mean guys that look like me — do anything that’s genre-bending or anything, they always put it in a rap or urban category,” Tyler said backstage. Billie Eilish Sweeps Top Awards at the Grammys 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

Can their urban therapy heal the world, one cultural institution at a time? Herzog & de Meuron: and now for our next trick … 2012-05-23T18:30:01Z

Among its chief goals, as the wall text at LAXART puts it, was to produce a “visual taxonomy of Southern California’s urban and social geography.” L.A. in the 1970s: A visual and architectural treasure trove at LAXART 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

For example, urban legends about razor blades in apples in the 1970s reflected cultural anxieties about loss of community and fear of strangers. Why has Halloween become so popular among adults? 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Throughout the day, the show was repeatedly hyped from the stage as “the biggest urban Earth Day festival” thanks to a capacity crowd of 33,000 people. Review | At Broccoli City Festival, cheers for Cardi B — and jeers for Kanye West 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that in the 1950s urban renewal forced 4,500 residents to move out of Southwest. Do posh waterfronts make a city world-class? D.C. is betting hundreds of millions on it. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

His film is the story of urban art as told by an earlier associate, Frenchman Thierry Guetta, who tapes artists in action. 2010-02-14T19:16:00Z

It floats above the city, with 360-degree views, converting the noise and mess of urban life into pure spectacle. Review | An artificial island with a real upside 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

That’s a slight exaggeration, but in some ways the new hub, called the Interchange, more accurately reflects today’s urban ideals than those monumental terminals of the railroading era. Commuting to Disneyland 2012-07-14T16:00:00Z

The newly established urban wine trail offers two dozen tasting rooms, all within blocks of downtown and the beach. Summer, Reimagined — Minus the Gridlock. Five Alternatives 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

There is nothing remotely prim or saccharine about the latest interpretations of this look, with their distinctly urban overtones. Maxi Skirts Making a Comeback 2010-05-26T20:49:00Z

We are ageing too, favoring quiet campgrounds over urban convenience. I left corporate life behind to live in a camper van. I am never going back 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

Britain on Tuesday marked the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, the first global celebrity author and chronicler of a world of urban inequality that looks a lot like the one we live in today. Britain marks Charles Dickens' 200th birthday 2012-02-07T23:46:05Z

To further emphasize the current look, and discourage weaklings and men with big bottoms, trousers were skinny, with chunky urban footwear. Fashion Review: Milan Men’s Fashion Week, Fall 2014 2014-01-15T22:59:32Z

Star of many a skyline photograph snapped from the islands, the CN Tower was once the world's tallest tower and is a useful reference point for urban wanderers. Trip Tips: Toronto, the Great White North's summer surprise 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

After consulting his prophet in Nigeria, he paid a Khmer boy to collect two bottles of water, one from the Mekong River and another from a filthy urban lake. Modern Love: The Hardest Lesson to Learn 2011-02-04T18:20:03Z

“As an avid photographer in my teenage years, my appreciation for photographs has evolved into collecting unique snapshots of urban life,” Berman said in the announcement. The Getty receives a major photography gift from film executive Bruce Berman 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

The work, all on an urban theme and in a variety of media, adds up to a contemporary take on the privileges enjoyed and predicaments suffered by 21st-century city dwellers. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z

But more frequent are patchwork images of surging locomotives, aircraft, immense train stations and urban views that frequently resemble large, handmade travel brochures. ‘Willem van Genk: Mind Traffic’ and ‘Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Then, from endearing Kailua around the southeastern tip to the urban fringes of Honolulu, Route 72 winds past stunning views of Makapuu Beach and the twisted lava formations around the Halona Blowhole. Waikiki Beach is only two miles of Oahu. The rest is well worth checking out. 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

A. Before 1928, urban ethnic working-class political loyalties were divided between the Republican and the Democratic parties. Lisa McGirr Discusses ‘The War on Alcohol’ and the Legacy of Prohibition 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Billed as the world’s only expo dedicated to urban art, Stroke.Artfair runs from Oct. In Transit Blog: Street Art Presented Live at Berlin Fair 2011-10-09T10:00:04Z

Viewed up close, it looks like random blotches of blacks and grays; from farther back, the tones fall into a well-articulated aerial view of an urban landscape. Museums Look Locally for Growth and, Sometimes, Survival 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Urban is not Teflon Tim, or an "American Idol"urban cockroach, he is a Peep . 'American Idol' Top 10 is Timmy's World, and the rest of them are just living in it. 2010-03-31T16:02:00Z

He’s an urban sophisticate and an intellectual, so simply recreating Gonzaga’s rough-and-ready originals was not on the agenda. Music Review: Gilberto Gil at Carnegie Hall in Voices of Latin America 2012-11-11T22:54:41Z

She was born Angela Olive Stalker and grew up mostly in London, playing with her brother in the post-Blitz urban rubble. A Warm Biography of the Fantastical, Feminist Angela Carter 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

It was hailed by architecture writers and progressive politicians at its opening as a pioneering model for affordable housing and urban renewal. The Housing Situation Is Dire. But Progress Is Still Possible. 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

Bellows found sublimity in urban excitements that Dreiser called "gross and cruel". George Bellows: Modern American Life – review 2013-03-17T00:05:47Z

But the score is determined by population density, so urban triangles are worth more than rural triangles of the same size. Ingress, a Mobile Game From Google 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

Two works depict urban infrastructure: a monoprint of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, by Rachel Burgess, and a linocut of a power line, by Ondine Wolfe Crispin. A Soothing Skyline and a Weimaraner, ‘the Most Architectural of Dogs’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

So providing nesting habitat like hoverfly lagoons for these insects could increase their abundance in urban areas, ensuring more effective pollination and better strawberry harvests in the future. Bees and hoverflies are key to growing more fruit and veg in cities 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

Another is to claim a place for urban dance in the city’s concert dance scene. Can a Hip-Hop Dance Show Settle In Off Broadway? 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

In the same way that rap and hip-hop crossed over from inner-city to white suburban kids, skateboarding, which was primarily a white suburban thing, then became urban. Afro-Punk Festival Embraces the Big Time 2011-08-25T23:04:01Z

While the story lines were outlandish, Ms. Grier said some of her early films had their roots in the truth of urban life in that era. Pam Grier Tells What She?s Learned in Her Memoir, ?Foxy? 2010-05-04T23:15:00Z

The show explores the cast in surprising depth, delving into their homesickness and feelings of urban alienation. How Breaking Amish and Cake Boss turned TLC into the Buzzfeed of TV 2013-06-06T09:48:16Z

Few of these seemed particularly resonant in my urban life. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z

Mr. Musk also opened an outpost of his more upscale Kitchen restaurant inside a 4,500-acre urban park called Shelby Farms in the center of Memphis. Kimbal Musk Wants to Feed America, Silicon Valley-Style 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

The mother told the Toronto Sun that she is frustrated because this coyote wears a collar as part of a Ministry of Natural Resources study on coyotes in urban areas. Brave Yorkie fights off coyote to save her 10-year-old owner 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z

The Portuguese had landed in territory occupied by Kongo peoples, who formed several separate states ruled by kings in urban courts similar to those of Europe. Review: ‘Kongo: Power and Majesty’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

But, before she began documenting urban life in New York, Meisler trained her eye outside of the city, photographing her own Jewish extended family on Long Island’s South Shore. Seventies Long Island: The Whole Mishpocha 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

You know, war zones, bandit country, no-go urban murder barrios, that kind of thing. Case Histories; Australia With Simon Reeve – TV review 2013-05-20T06:00:22Z

This adventure into a gritty urban underworld demonstrates how wide the borders of Erdrich’s narrative territory are. Review | With ‘The Night Watchman,’ Louise Erdrich rediscovers her genius 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

The freshest exploration in “The Future Is Analog” is of the role of the office in human society, an ongoing puzzle that urban planners, government tax authorities and corporate managers are straining mightily to solve. Keep Baking That Sourdough, and Change the World 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

In a small urban backyard, that might be the 15-foot gap between a holly and a magnolia. Perspective | Finding the flower bed in the firmament 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

She graduated from Connecticut College and received a master’s degree in urban planning with a focus on international development planning from N.Y.U. Johanna Paine, Andrew Buchan 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

Professor David Kennedy’s radical approach to gang violence sounded like academic claptrap, but it worked, and it has led to a paradigm shift in urban law enforcement.. Operation Ceasefire and the Unlikely Advent of Precision Policing 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

The move put the school at the heart of a new urban neighborhood just about to take off. Sergei Tschernisch: In 17 years at Cornish's helm, mission accomplished 2011-05-14T04:33:09Z

Riding a double-decker bus makes you feel like an urban mahout. A love letter to London’s 139 bus, from an adoring day tripper 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

McLellan’s Heurich Gallery exhibition juxtaposes rustic scenes and urban vignettes, the grand and the everyday, fleeting instants and words that have lasted for a century or more. In the galleries: A meeting of lines in art and architecture

In a measure of the principals’ commitment to the District, one of 20 cities they considered for a second urban winery, the two owners, winemaker Conor McCormack and executive chef Michael Gordon, relocated here. Review | Ana at District Winery pairs good food with fine drinks — and a sweet view 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

Set on Grandma Mei’s “urban micro farm,” as it says on the Moonbug website, “Lellobee” stars a recurring cast of kids and animals. How to Tell ‘Blippi’ From ‘Little Baby Bum’ 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

All of this is presented with the show’s usual high degree of technical and dramatic accomplishment, and its alternately peppery and dreamlike evocations of the Southwestern landscape, urban and desert. Review: As ‘Better Call Saul’ Returns, ‘Breaking Bad’ Comes Into View 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

Following a corporate lawyer who moves to small seaside town, it tapped the zeitgeist, articulating a gnawing sense of dissatisfaction among many urban professionals.  The Time of Our Lives: following in the footsteps of Offspring, Tangle and Love My Way 2013-06-14T04:55:02Z

Civilisation is a thin veneer in the urban jungle, and Morgan wishes himself a gorilla, a big beast. Jon Savage celebrates the film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment 2011-02-10T21:45:01Z

An older sailor hopes to return to Manhattan’s urban jungle. Sam Glanzman, Comic-Book Artist Inspired by His War Service, Dies at 92 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

The casting director struggles for another adjective — urban? — before saying what she really means. These television shows turn the spotlight on racist, sexist Hollywood auditions 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

“I was surprised how much I enjoy urban living,” she says, adding that there are some negatives to renting, such as slow response times for repairs and not building equity through their housing costs. How to Decide Whether to Rent or Buy a Home 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Suburban sprawl has wiped out a lot of small farms near urban centers, Miller explains, leaving fewer farms and farmers in the US. FarmersOnly.com founder on why rural Americans need their own dating site 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

Every song, even the ballads, they were all doing this kind of urban dance … Was Cleveland, as they say, "the mistake on the lake"? Stornoway's Brian Briggs: 'We've acquired a very well-behaved crowd' 2013-06-19T14:21:02Z

The designer traveled there last fall at the invitation of Live in Slums, a Milan-based nongovernmental organization that backs social enterprises in poor, urban areas around the world. For a School in Nairobi, Furniture That Functions 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

Ellie brightens up for real once they get to Salt Lake City and she sees a pack of giraffes roaming freely through the urban ruins. ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1 Finale: A Deadly Operation 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

Pop culture seems intent on taking us back to a time of urban grit and crime. In 'A Most Violent Year,' Oscar Isaac's brutal struggles 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Russell Shorto, likened the book to a cross between “a travel guide to places that no longer exist” and “a compendium of archaeological findings on humanity’s urban origins.” New in Paperback: ‘Made in China’ and ‘Better Luck Next Time’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Progress City is surprisingly in step with current ideas of urban planning. Tomorrowland: how Walt Disney’s strange utopia shaped the world of tomorrow 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

But, in fact, the cities of Italy – then and now – demonstrate a rich diversity of urban possibilities. What can we learn from Italy's urban utopias? 2011-08-22T11:08:13Z

After graduating, Wood returned to Birmingham to work as an urban morning show host. Roy Wood Jr. chooses his words 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Like the Wilson plays "Burn This" and "Balm in Gilead," "Hot L Baltimore" has a hard urban edge.  Pulitzer-winning playwright Lanford Wilson dead at 73 2011-03-24T21:36:57Z

But I also seek escapes from Italy’s urban intensity. Tivoli: Still Rome’s great escape after 2,000 years 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Yet by venting his disgust for such behaviour – along with his disgust for domestic violence, infidelity, drug addiction and other urban ills – he became a hero for making something inspirational out of simple decency. Comedy gold: Chris Rock's Bring the Pain 2012-05-24T10:23:08Z

No longer associated with urban, or even suburban centres, it's reaching into the heartlands. A new dawn: how street dance came in from the cold 2010-03-23T21:45:00Z

But what happens when urban life effectively stops? What It’s Like Self-Isolating in a Studio Apartment 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

Recently Ms. Reid got into a spat with David French, a conservative writer, after she mischaracterized a story he wrote about the risk of a nuclear attack on urban centers. How Joy Reid of MSNBC Became a Heroine of the Resistance 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

The television and other media coverage of the protests in Baltimore has shown one longtime observer that the way we look at urban uprisings hasn’t changed much in 50 years. “It’s a ritual of reassurance”: Fox News, Wolf Blitzer, “thugs” and Baltimore’s sorry media spectacle 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Briers starred in the 1970s sitcom "The Good Life" as Tom Good, a man who decides to quit the urban rat race for a life of self-sufficiency in suburbia. British actor Richard Briers dies at 79 2013-02-18T14:34:08Z

At the moment US security forces are dealing with "rural" militancy in Afghanistan and "urban" militancy in Iraq. US embassy cables: Indian jihadi groups 'interested in bio-terrorism' 2010-12-16T21:30:30Z

In one respect the decaying house is a metaphor for urban America, for the ghettos of Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago: phantoms of the palatial African-American meccas they once were. ‘Loving Day,’ by Mat Johnson 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

The ensemble plays at one urban venue, too: the Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center in Seattle Saturday night. Musicians harmonize with nature for outdoor audiences — including snakes 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

“I think they are part of a greater moral panic about the fear of strangers in an increasingly urban, impersonal and unpredictable world. Phantom clowns are essentially the bogeyman in a different cultural guise.” Don’t fear the creeper: Those weird clowns are just a social delusion 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

Still, Orlando is part of a vivid tableau of early-20th-century urban popular culture, a milieu that provides “The Immigrant” with its setting and its inspiration. ‘The Immigrant,’ With Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The twin Art Deco towers, on a curved intersection designed to be downtown Shanghai’s answer to Piccadilly Circus, create an impressive, amphitheater-like urban space. The Man Who Changed the Face of Shanghai 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

His races now attract a primarily urban and wealthy demographic. Chinese burn: how the People's Republic has become an endurance-running superpower 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

The Human Access Project recommends several other good Portland beaches on its website, and also offers a useful safety primer on swimming in this urban waterway. Following the Lead of the Diving Girl 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

“We did not expect to find them in an urban area,” he says. Is that a forest downtown? 2012-07-07T16:00:00Z

A crucial difference is that Walsh’s style is far from urban: It relies on the sense of adventure that comes from wandering a path in the dark, seeking the next illuminated tree. Review | In the galleries: Exhibit upends male-centric myths, legends and folklore 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

And though all the trailheads lie within an hour’s drive of several major urban areas, the hundreds of miles of hiking trails are little known except to local residents. Journeys: Network of Trails Lead Hikers to Another California 2010-07-16T19:57:00Z

It’s one thing to listen to the radio and say, “Everything was urban for one moment and now everything is Euro-dance.” J.R. Rotem on Producing Hits for Gwen Stefani and 'Empire' 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

Zürich affords a peek at Swiss solutions to persistent urban problems. Off the beaten track in Switzerland 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Most crucially, Mr. Rodriguez explained, the revision cut the museum off from its core urban surroundings. 50 Years of Art in the Bronx 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

The works share a familiar setup that serves as a kind of urban parable about the ways in which the education system and other institutions can sabotage and trap people of color. Onstage, Paradise for Black Characters Often Comes With a Price 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

The first film is rural and the second is urban. Apocalypse bow-wow: the new breed of arthouse animal horror 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

Today, the citizens and civic leaders of both Washington and New York embrace the urban forest with enthusiasm and resources. Perspective | Appreciating the need for — and the beauty of — the urban forest 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

“Concrete Cowboy,” an urban Western about African American riders in Philadelphia starring Idris Elba, is about an often unseen — and persisting — Black cowboy culture. ‘Concrete Cowboy’ shows Philadelphia’s Black cowboy culture 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

It was developed in China and played by immigrants looking for a shared activity suited to the cramped geography of urban Chinatowns. Review: ‘9-Man’ Is More Than a Game for Chinese-Americans 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

The work had a huge influence, he said, on writing for children from Enid Blyton to Charlie Higson; its celebration of the sounds and textures of urban life make it a truly modernist tale. Brighton festival 2013 takes off, with Michael Rosen at helm 2013-02-27T10:57:07Z

Although the pieces are perfect for second homes or waterside escapes, they work in urban lofts or suburban ranches as well. Destination Design: Annapolis

In 2017, the filmmaker Theo Anthony released “Rat Film,” an improbably poetic, intellectually dazzling, politically astute documentary on the seemingly prosaic topic of rats and their place in the modern urban landscape. ‘All Light, Everywhere’ Review: Watching the Watchers 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

These lost souls — from cowboys to urban refugees — make their way to Montana and build new communities for themselves. 24 Works of Fiction to Read This Summer 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

The run of programmes features short stories by Bristol-based writers, the first of which – Rip Off by Rachel Bentham – concerns a reasonably famous urban myth from the area. Radio catchup: Band break-ups, high-kicking chorus girls and tales from Bristol 2010-04-29T15:54:00Z

The densely packed vertical urban sprawl of The Colony, a multicultural ghetto that's kinda Japanese and kinda Russian and constantly rainy, is the impressively detailed, vividly rendered work of production designer Patrick Tatopoulos. Review: New `Total Recall' slicker but soulless 2012-08-02T17:46:04Z

The Original is one of those cozy, tucked-away restaurants — of which Milwaukee has many — which make you forget the dust and bustle of urban life. 36 Hours in Milwaukee 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

In its minority outreach, the Forest Service has especially focused on urban youths, who traditionally have not participated in environmental stewardship. Few minorities visit Sequoia National Forest or the Sawtooth Wilderness. This man wants to change that. 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

Yet it’s advice that you can feel all the people onstage longing to heed, not just the atomistic characters in this mosaic of urban lives, but also the performers portraying them. Review: ‘New York Animals,’ a Musical About Intersecting Lives 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

It’s been a springboard for Brooklyn nostalgia, a debate about urban design and the politics of eminent domain and, depending on your perspective or basketball affiliation, a community uniter or divider. In Alliance, Nets Arena to Offer Arts 2011-06-29T22:18:50Z

Two enticing popular genres meet in the Laura Schellhardt play "The K of D, an urban legend" at Seattle Repertory Theatre. Review: Rep's 'The K of D' is stronger on acting and atmosphere, than on spooky suspense or small-town reality 2011-01-22T01:06:04Z

Older Tibetans in every settlement visited consistently complained that the younger generation will move to urban areas or the west, leaving Tibetan communities populated by children and the elderly. US embassy cables: 'Widening generational divide' between Tibet's leaders and youth 2010-12-16T21:30:25Z

There’s no Tommy gun showdown with the killer in this story, no chase through tunnels or urban alleys and no triumphant clacking of handcuffs on the wrists of a guilty maniac. The Killer Who Terrorized Cleveland — and Spurred It to Change 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

“It’s a very dramatic space and reminds me somewhat of a cathedral — an urban secular cathedral,” said Mr. Brown. Gavin Brown Moving Gallery to Harlem 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

The noise and the night are factors whenever “Macbeth” is performed outdoors in an urban setting, but somehow they’re particularly effective enhancements here. Review: A ‘Macbeth’ at Ease in the Dark and Noisy City 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Once upon a time, a London “derby” match between Arsenal and Chelsea was an urban, tribal event, pregnant with the possibility of violence. Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

When "urban blacks" are discussed in America's popular discourse or when we discuss "the ghetto" this is about race and who is on the other side of the literal or metaphorical wall. "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

The upshot: Vendors charge higher prices, for the most part, at urban markets. Farmers market prices tend to be higher in the city: Why? 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

“The clothes will be inspired by how I think he shaped the culture in basketball and the urban community,” Mr. Broadus said. Snoop Dogg’s Son Gave Up Football for Fashion 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

Colonial Revival, we come to recognize, is latent in much of our architecture, furniture and urban design. Exhibition Review: National Design That?s Hidden in Plain Sight 2011-06-13T22:41:43Z

Mr. Alicea, 26, is pursuing a doctorate in urban schooling at University of California, Los Angeles. Ye Dam Lee, Julio Alicea 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z

The alt-right like to paint the US’s third largest city as an urban hellscape overrun by predominantly black gangs fighting for turf. Death Wish: is the Bruce Willis remake an alt-right fantasy? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

Today, you would be hard pressed to find an urban planner who would advocate using eminent domain in the same ways. Times Square, Grand Central and the Laws That Build the City 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

The only worry is whether hordes of us are falling for the urban myth that a month of polishing your halo somehow offsets the ill effects of drinking heavily for the rest of the year. Alcohol-free months are all the rage – but will a sober October lead to long-term health benefits? 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

“What’s impressive is the opposition of the two huge scales: the city with its urban aspect, and the landscape in all its immensity.” How Do You Add to Versailles? Bravely 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

It is an urban parable, writ large in the steel and concrete of Manhattan. The High Bridge, a Scenic and Serene Cousin of the High Line 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

The group was also nominated for best urban music album and song of the year for their hit "LatinoAmerica." Calle 13 gets record 10 Latin Grammy nominations 2011-09-14T16:11:11Z

More importantly, Denver’s urban development is intimately tied to the city’s bars and taverns. | The Biennial of the Americas Turns Denver Into a Giant Art Fair 2013-07-15T16:37:10Z

Although Frank Ocean missed out on best new artist to the rock band Fun., he scooped the prize for best urban contemporary album. Grammys 2013: three gongs for Jay-Z and Kanye, but Frank Ocean misses out 2013-02-11T08:40:00Z

Rather, she said, she was simply recording life as she saw it in the teeming urban environment in which she grew up. Shelagh Delaney, Playwright, Dies at 72 2011-11-25T02:20:01Z

Her work represented what Ross was looking for: sophisticated humor that spoke to the urban demimonde of the day. The Lovely Nineteen-Twenties Flapper Cartoons of Barbara Shermund 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

A video installation by Larry Cook shows him standing in urban twilight, holding a burning torch as the Morse code “SOS” repeatedly sounds. Galleries: ‘The Art of Comic Books,’ ‘Wait,’ ‘Vivid’

The father is eventually killed by the police after a routine traffic stop, and the narrator grows up to be an urban farmer and mad social scientist. Paul Beatty, Author of ‘The Sellout,’ on Finding Humor in Issues of Race 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Rather, it’s a loving but fearless portrait of gay urban life at the turn of the century, seen through the prism of one dysfunctional love affair. “Keep the Lights On”: A gay breakthrough, and a great movie 2012-09-06T13:00:00Z

“Now we sell to people all over the country and to a growing number of suburban and urban customers.” Maple Syrup Making Also Boomed as a Pandemic Hobby 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

Experts today predict that three-quarters of the world’s population will be urban by 2050, a third living in slums, mostly in the so-called global south that includes Latin America. Review: ‘Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980’ at MoMA 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

“Bantú Mama” is beautifully shot and rendered, authentically and intimately depicting life in urban Santo Domingo. ‘Bantú Mama’ Review: Lessons Learned and Taught 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

The explicit moral drawn by Perrault is sexist, urban and bourgeois. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z

“You put this in a corner of a contemporary urban apartment, and it looks like Krypton.” On the hunt for affordable treasures at West Elm 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Hilda lives alone in a one-bedroom apartment off 14th Street NW, the corridor that most symbolizes the District’s dramatic urban renaissance. Ailing, alone and 89. So how could Hilda Reynolds be joyous? 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

At every stop along his journey, Chironi will inhabit a Le Corbusier–designed building, with each period of residence characterized by the building’s specific structure, urban environment, and various visitors. Cristian Chironi Begins His Project “My House Is a Le Corbusier” 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

We hear a new urban soundtrack where traffic is muted and sirens scream through the stillness. ‘I would pay $50 for a 2-minute hug’: True stories of sex starvation during self-quarantine 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

Most of the thoughts that get put to paper are written by people like me, people with a fair amount of education and an inclination toward writing, like university types or so-called “young urban creatives.” “Comment sections are brilliant and extremely relevant”: Christy Wampole on the awfulness of Facebook, the utility of “think pieces” and why you might be reading the Internet all wrong 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

The show covers dating, sex, careers, urban living and the nagging feeling among these men that they're not living up to the libertine, counterculture ideals of the generations that came before them. Mild little 'Boyhood' builds to an emotional peak 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z

Extremely low levels of pollution from industrial or urban sources in some places is an asset. A gourmet revival for St. Lawrence River marine algae 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

“And we have CBS canceling its rural sitcoms because advertisers wanted a younger, more urban demographic, because those are the consumers they’re targeting.” A Very Special Episode, but Maybe Not So Precious 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Half memoir, half cri de coeur, this book by a former New Yorker writer seeks to understand how our malls, green expanses and urban spaces reflect on our humanity. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

The opening pieces were smart and urban, mostly pants, but they were slightly cropped and loose. Fashion Review: Armani in Green 2014-02-24T17:14:41Z

More than mere oases, works of botanical urban art call attention to the metamorphic nature of cities themselves, the way the urban cycle of construction, decay, restoration and demolition mimics that of nature. | Graffiti Made of Plants, Not Paint 2014-05-02T17:36:09Z

Often, I am not considered a Southern writer, because I am black and writing about Atlanta and urban spaces. Ravi Howard on singer Nat King Cole: “The Jackie Robinson of television” 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

Modern drama in which a woman's urban lifestyle is put into perspective when she falls for a mysterious country charmer. This week's new films 2011-01-22T00:06:21Z

How was he supposed to fashion a flawless dream environment, with urban blight as the backdrop? Magazine Preview: You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey! 2011-06-09T14:04:26Z

The tensions over urban development echo experiences in cities the world over. Movie Review: ‘Dear Mandela,’ Directed by Dara Kell and Christopher Nizza 2012-09-21T22:18:38Z

The backlash against the Masts has far more to do with pent-up irritation at the self-satisfaction of urban cultural élites than it does with cocoa beans. The Way Forward for Hipster Food 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

They were right, of course: That boom was built largely on exploited low-wage laborers, especially Italian, Jewish and Polish immigrants packed into urban tenement neighborhoods. The New Gilded Age: A bigger con job than the first one 2014-04-26T16:30:00Z

Both, Maitland argues, are under threat, jeopardised by our increasingly urban and technologically mediated lives. Gossip from the Forest by Sara Maitland – review 2012-10-27T23:25:11Z

A series of projects has transformed Philadelphia into a hive of outdoor urban activity. 52 Places to Go in 2015 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Also new was "Step Up 3D," the underperforming third release in the urban dance series. Will Ferrell comedy "Other Guys" leads box office 2010-08-08T16:08:00Z

As an extension of Broccoli City, the festival echoes the organization’s mission to lift up urban communities through education about health and sustainability. Review | For Broccoli City Festival, growth is a constant – especially with Lil Wayne as a performer 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

Most are urban American semi-strivers, worrying a little about work, a little about happiness and a lot about the illicit affairs they’re carrying on. Review: ‘Single, Carefree, Mellow,’ Except for That Illicit Affair 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

They were inspired, in a way, by the emergence of the urban cowboy phenomenon in fashion, film and country music. How gay rodeos upend assumptions about life in rural America 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z

To realize a sophisticated Parisian urban plan, Le Corbusier badly needed his cousin on site. Antiques: Shining New Light on a Modernist 2011-08-11T21:43:28Z

During the holiday season, the commercial window displays that otherwise blend into the backdrop of the urban consumer landscape are foregrounded as indispensable features of the festive period. Holiday windows: The allure of showing and hiding makes us look 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

He loved the idea of what was happening in urban America with American youth, and he invited me to do this project in Brisbane. Debbie Allen uses her creative talents to address violence in America 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

A total of 147 artists were nominated in 34 categories honoring various musical styles, including pop, urban, tropical and regional Mexican. Tributes, performances galore at ‘Premio Lo Nuestro’ awards 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

SUN How to prevent conflicts with urban raccoons, 1 p.m. Community calendar 2012-08-22T22:22:03Z

The 17-track album is filled with complex rhymes from Fiasco, who raps masterfully on several scenarios regarding American urban culture. Review: Lupe Fiasco raps masterfully on new album 2012-09-26T20:39:10Z

The overview of urban motion is expressive one way, but even at 8 a.m., it is a fabric of innumerable stories, each apparent in an instant. The Art of Summer: Art of Summer: Grand Central?s Fluid Human Dance 2011-08-31T12:02:00Z

The city is enduring a brutal winter and the ongoing devastation of an urban renewal plan, which is emptying out blocks of old tenements before their demolition. Review | Based on serial murders that rocked Scotland, ‘The Quaker’ is a chilling suspense tale 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

During years when crime and urban paranoia were spiking, the work might be seen as a creepy metaphor for vulnerability, but Mr. Acconci saw it essentially as an open-ended and in many ways optimistic narrative. Vito Acconci, an Artist as Influential as He Is Eccentric 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Only a handful — New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Memphis — saw a significant number of urban neighborhoods rebound from high poverty. Study: Seattle remains untouched by gentrification 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

It’s easy for urban sophisticates to mock American rednecks or British “chavs” who stuff themselves with fast food, and easy to recognize that they’re in the grip of some sort of addiction. We are all addicts now 2013-05-11T23:00:00Z

Emanuel made his comments at an unrelated news conference where he announced plans to introduce an ordinance that will expand community gardens and urban farms in Chicago. Unions to Emanuel: Cut patronage 2011-07-26T16:22:00Z

Steve Brill, known as the Wildman of urban foraging, will lead one of his popular tours on Saturday at the Queens County Farm Museum. Weekend Miser: Queens County Farm Museum, Foraging Tour With Steve Brill 2012-08-02T19:28:48Z

Such vivid decoration was common in his time, shaping the 18th-century urban visual experience. Art Review: ‘Dürer to de Kooning,’ at the Morgan Library 2012-10-11T23:02:45Z

You felt as if you were watching the difficulties of actually policing in a modern urban environment. Steven Bochco and Others on Creating ‘Hill Street Blues’ 2014-05-01T17:39:39Z

All the activities will reinforce that the city is more than an urban jungle. Diving Into Conservation at World Oceans Weekend 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Foster’s most radical move was the way he dealt with one of the most vexing urban design challenges of the past century: what to do with the car. Critic?s Notebook: In Arabian Desert, a Sustainable City Rises, Walled and Lofty 2010-09-25T21:09:00Z

Most of these psychiatrists are in urban centers. The terrible human price of Obama’s drone war 2014-01-28T14:21:00Z

And such a hefty object is always going to feel shoehorned in an urban context. Leeds Arena: giant mint helmet or technicolour dreamboat? 2013-04-25T11:23:00Z

Tempelhofer Park and the Park Am Gleisdreieck represent complementary approaches to urban renewal: the former preserving an abandoned space, the latter dramatically reinventing one. My Berlin: Reckoning With the Past 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

The objective is the kind of comprehensive urban oasis that New Yorkers first craved in the years following Sept. 11, Ms. Wils said. At the End of the New Pier 26, a Surprise 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

Ted Hearne’s “Is It Dirty” evoked urban roil with jazzy motifs in raucous collision. Music in Review 2011-04-09T00:11:04Z

Algerian-born artist takes his observations of L.A.'s urban space and transforms them into a large-scale physical installation. Runs through Dec. 14. Datebook: Videos about secrets, photography about rising tides 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

“It was like being an urban planner,” he added. Inside Art : Emily Fisher Landau Pledges 367 Artworks to Whitney 2010-05-06T20:47:00Z

Various unrelated images were juxtaposed: a dark-haired woman dancing in an urban space; Mr. Ponthus discussing Nietzsche’s madness; a dancer in a traditional Asian costume. Review: Festival for Contemporary Performance Opens With Film, Boulez and Chaos 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

They are dressed in bright T-shirts, jeans and sneakers: a uniform for the urban chic. Dance Review: For French Choreographer, a Night to Rattle the Audience 2010-10-22T23:26:00Z

They are part of a “video mapping” art scene that is bubbling up in New York, London and other urban centers. Video Mapping Artists Use Light as a Medium 2012-01-29T05:00:11Z

Sanchez agreed, informing the panel that she wanted something more "urban." Phillips, Sanchez face off on 'Idol' finale 2012-05-23T02:31:09Z

It is telling about the state of the world that “Terror at the Mall” is Mr. Reed’s third television film about a deadly urban siege in just 11 years. ‘Terror at the Mall’ on HBO Documents an Attack in Kenya 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

He charts such hoary chestnuts as the city not having a traditional urban core and being artistically shadowed by the glare of Hollywood. 'Out of Sight' gives L.A.'s '60s art scene the respect its due 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

At Billingsgate, the artists will perform on three stages and the old market building will be decorated with art, projections, photographs and graffiti to evoke an urban Brazil setting. African beats come to London, with help from Brazil 2012-06-15T11:38:39Z

Impressionists did not shy away from modern subject matter such as rail transport and urban industrialization, as seen in Monet’s painting of Le Havre’s smokestacks. ‘Once visitors arrive, it’s easy to seduce them’: Le Havre celebrates its 500th year 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

I don't think this problem is rural or urban. 'Bully' filmmaker makes a documentary that touches a nerve 2012-04-05T23:37:04Z

The artist and urban planner talks to Doug Aitken in an abandoned property on Chicago’s South Side that he calls the Archive House. | Theaster Gates in Conversation With Doug Aitken 2014-01-23T01:20:17Z

"It is set in contemporary London, so I am returning to the urban world that I first wrote about in the 1970s," said Poliakoff. Tracey Ullman returns to London stage for Stephen Poliakoff play 2011-07-23T23:07:56Z

It covers effective urban planning, proper waste resource management and wealth creation while considering social, political and economic realities typical to the developing world. Nigeria’s street food adds to the plastic problem — green leaves offer a solution 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

But from the start, Mr. Abraham created a breathtaking web of physical references, melding dance vocabulary with pedestrian elements — an urban walk, a shoulder brush. Review: Calvin Royal III and Dormeshia Glow at Fall for Dance 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

They are either positioned very low, down in the street, feeling swallowed by the city, or very high, on an expensive floor, staring at the urban forest. Watching Tokyo Through the Eyes of Outsiders 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

I feel some of that argument in the stories here, like people are being marginalized by urban living. Adrian Tomine’s bittersweet Gen X vision: “This is the book of mine so far that I feel is the least judgmental of humanity” 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

He was touring with other Canadian architecture students, seeing United States landmarks, but what made a real impression was seeing block after block of “cruel” urban renewal. Washington?s Fresh Coat of Greasepaint 2010-10-10T01:30:00Z

It doesn’t float above the city, but it floats above the water, offers views in all directions and, most important, it re-creates the spectator-spectacle dynamic that is the essence of urban narcissism. Review | An artificial island with a real upside 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

He graduated from Boston College, and received two master’s degrees, both in regional and urban planning, from the London School of Economics and Sciences Po-Paris as part of a double degree program. Andrew Lim, David Crawford 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z

Paul Gentry’s “Crosswalk” cleverly constricts its viewpoint to capture the energy of an urban scene: three shoppers, seen only from the torso down, striding across a street. Davidson Galleries’ ‘Wood Engraving Invitational’ 2014-01-16T21:48:16Z

“It’s really an experiment,” says Lauren Ross, the curator and director of arts programs at Friends of the High Line, adding that Sze consulted various urban birding groups but received conflicting predictions. | New Art on the High Line 2011-06-07T17:56:27Z

But as travel bans lifted, Americans enthusiastically took to the roads this summer for outdoor-focused vacations away from urban centers, the better to social distance. Not all cabins close up for winter. Here are heated options for socially distant exploring. 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

“If these gentry progressives are waiting for urban schools to reform without competition from charters or vouchers they are consigning generations of children to diminished lives.” NAACP calls for moratorium of charter schools until they stop acting like private schools 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

For evidence, look no further than “Girls,” HBO’s cultural weather vane for urban 20-somethings, where none of the main characters paired off in a manner that might count as courtship even a decade ago. The End of Courtship? 2013-01-11T21:56:39Z

At the time, Johnson said it was every architect’s dream to create such a coherent urban ensemble. ‘Times Square, 1984,’ at the Skyscraper Museum 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Ms. Greenwood was a student there and Ms. Canales was an assistant to the chairman of the graduate department of urban planning when a mutual friend tried to set them up, but to no avail. Maria Canales, Jane Greenwood 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London is part urban fantasy, part police procedural. London: fantasy's capital city 2012-11-21T11:51:44Z

The tunnel has been used before, when Punchdrunk commandeered it for a menacing investigation of urban life: audiences wandered in the dusk from one glittering object to another. Ditch; Marine Parade 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z

An urban panorama is viewed from a high vantage point, a conceit used in topographic art to render vast perspectives. Art Review: John Martin's Greatness and High Kitsch 2011-09-30T11:30:09Z

It is a poem brimming with everyday life, the ordinary details of urban New York – the availability of tickets for an event, heavy traffic, the benches of Central Park. Quick Question by John Ashbery – review 2013-03-15T17:30:01Z

What it amounted to, on the whole, was a curiously noisy urban cityscape, albeit one slightly denser with drummers than usual. Music Review: Phil Kline’s ‘dreamcitynine’ at Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2012-08-05T21:31:18Z

Countless urban details – housing block windows, city maps – overwhelm your field of vision. Julie Mehretu paints chaos with chaos – from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park 2013-06-20T17:16:00Z

In the hills and dales of Pradagonia — a terrain of the mind rather than the land, an urban aspiration for an out-of-reach wilderness — the fleece reigns supreme. This Fleece Is the Hottest Jacket at New York Fashion Week 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

The aim: to create a dialogue about the value of public urban space in today’s world. In Transit Blog: In Munich, Public Art Designed to Get People Talking 2013-06-13T15:43:15Z

Thus, I suspect most of them should be stocked in your area if you live in an urban or suburban part of the U.S. The common banana is trash and likely to go extinct: Try eating these alternatives instead 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z

In traditional urban patterns such as Nolli's Rome, streets and open spaces generally read as the foreground, defined and shaped like urban rooms by background buildings. Grand plans: how the simple planning diagram has shaped our cities 2012-11-22T15:24:06Z

Here are a few of my favorite urban spaces in Paris, London and Barcelona. Finding urban getaways in Europe’s top cities 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

He graduated from the Cooper Union, in Manhattan, with a degree in architecture in 1969 and from Catholic University, in Washington, with a master’s degree in architecture and urban design in 1971. Edward Feiner, 75, Dies; Revolutionized the Look of Federal Buildings 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z

The merriment was a tad more controlled in its new urban environs. Festival Devotees Migrate East 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

Amongst the darkness, the unpretentious existentialist angst and the gritty urban detail, there is humour and pathos. Not the Booker prize 2011: the shortlist 2011-08-18T09:45:51Z

Men in coveralls and trucker hats and women in tight T-shirts and puffy vests filled out the rustic urban vibe. Big Buck Hunter: Meet the world’s best fake marksmen 2012-11-25T16:00:00Z

Their trademark mix of edgy culture and political coverage all but defined the mentality of a particular urban dweller — but also defined the city itself. Goodbye, alt-weeklies 2012-10-06T17:00:00Z

We live in high-density housing in urban centres, where we are prey to sirens, engines and extractor fans. Please be quiet: my search for a noise-free life 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z

Nick's brand of place making dovetails a love of urban anthropology and cultural salvaging—a blend that hits this city's signature chord: reinvention driven by heritage. Nashville's New Flavor 2012-11-15T22:20:04.597Z

Fleet Farming Located: Orlando, Florida Serving: Orlando Details: Fleet Farming is a nonprofit urban agriculture program that also offers edible landscaping services. Edible landscapes are un-lawning America 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

After founding Balmori Associates, she put her evolving ideas about urban environments and landscape into practice in a wide range of projects, some for immediate use and others experimental. Diana Balmori, Landscape Architect With a Blending Philosophy, Dies at 84 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

If your husband beats you, he can be charged with a felony and, in most urban areas, you can escape to a battered women’s shelter. Women’s rights is the longest revolution 2013-02-21T17:14:00Z

The empirical reality of this urban novel is that you keep seeing the same people. John Mullan on NW – Guardian book club 2013-07-27T07:00:03Z

It doesn’t get more urban Americana than this. Thornton Wilder’s ‘Our Town’ at Green-Wood Cemetery 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

A few of the buildings have been demolished, an unfortunate reality of redevelopment, and pronounced urban decay. In Energized Detroit, Savoring an Architectural Legacy 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

It's a quality that made him a natural dancer for Maliphant, even though the latter's choreography owes far more to the meditative dynamic of t'ai chi than the urban gregariousness of hip-hop. MoveTube: the terrific Tommy Franzén – a National Dance awards shoo-in? 2012-11-14T09:59:30Z

The scene called to mind “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte,” if Seurat replaced the urban sophistication of Paris with Montana’s laid-back charm. Fly-Fishing in Montana, Where a River Still Runs Through It 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

In Davide Livermore’s production, the Macbeths live in a rotating penthouse that looks out on a skyscraper city projected as if in an urban fantasy video game. Verdi’s Shakespeare Resonates Across Italian Opera Houses 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

But unlike many of those films, this one isn’t borrowing from urban legends or famous ghost stories — it’s drawing on verifiable atrocities committed against Latina women. ‘Madres’ and ‘The Manor’ Review: Maligned Women Uncover the Truth 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Each of the day's panels was followed by Q-and-A sessions exploring finance, urban affairs, esthetics and, of course, technology. Arts conference looks to the future 2011-06-08T18:25:00Z

Throughout my childhood, I was caught up in daydreams of “somedays,” eager to grow up, leave my hometown behind and find people like me in the urban spaces I had my heart set on. Queering Appalachia — finding chosen families online in an unforgiving landscape 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

Street was just that: skaters cruised, launched, slid, and were just starting to ollie through urban and suburban environments. Jonah Hill Faithfully Re-creates the Raw, Fleeting Years of Skate Culture, in “Mid90s” 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

The urban distractions most of us deal with on a daily basis were gone. My Icelandic adventure 2012-09-01T15:00:00Z

From Saturday to Monday, this urban oasis will put the spotlight on some of the most industrious workers in the entire Bedford Park neighborhood of the Bronx: honeybees. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Was Mr. Rand, who is still in prison, really guilty, or simply a convenient receptacle for the ingrained terrors of a powerful urban legend? | 'Cropsey': Joshua Zeman and Barbara Broncaccio Look at Kidnappings 2010-06-04T02:02:00Z

As city folk continue to flock north to the Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains, the urban cool of Manhattan — and, more notably, Brooklyn — are making their influence felt. A Catskills Inn Gets a Modern Makeover 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z

And in North America, the powerful indigenous urban center of Cahokia, in modern-day Illinois, boasted around 30,000 residents—more than lived in colonial Boston, Philadelphia, or Charleston. How to Talk to Kids About America Before Columbus 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

The Depression's hitting, newly-started record companies are trying to sell records to urban people, and then they decided 'Why don't we sell records to black people in the south too? White rescues obscure blues music 2013-02-06T15:13:35Z

Now, as we all know, the standard urban uniform for summer is so casual and suburban that Fifth Avenue looks little different from Level 3 at the mall. Critic’s Notebook: Far Rockaway Boardwalk as a Catwalk 2012-06-20T10:58:03Z

He cooks in his cowboy hat at his Lonesome Dove Western Bistro where he redefines urban and Western flavors. 40 Things I Love About Texas 2010-06-02T17:24:00Z

It’s not a happy story, but it’s an important one, and Austen, a journalist who frequently writes about urban planning and housing issues, tells it expertly and well. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Soon there will be a clothing boutique, an urban farm and herb garden tended by schoolchildren, and a meditation area with a reflecting pool. An Outdoor Outpost of Tulum, in Hudson Square 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

And yet — just like the modern apartment buildings, hip bar and decrepit old oil tanks outside our hotel-room window — they coexist happily, in some sort of weird urban balance. My Brooklyn, Then and Now 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

The syncopated rhythms of wires, pipes and trusses on the Pompidou's urban cliff is the result. Richard Rogers: the world as it could be 2013-07-15T17:45:01Z

Four out of five Americans inhabit urban areas on a fraction of this country’s land, while rural residents continue to decline as a percentage of the population. Can rural America be saved? A new national ‘challenge’ tries to see. 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Air pollutants and population density are increasing the chances of childhood obesity, and scientists are just starting to understand which chemicals and urban factors are the riskiest, according to a new US study. Air pollutants and population density increase childhood obesity risk – study 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

“Boom Town” is a dazzling urban history, which is precisely what it sets out to be. “Boom Town”: Is Oklahoma City the “Great Minor City” of America? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

From my hotel balcony, I thought the city looked more like an urban forest than a concrete jungle. A first-timer’s fresh view of Vancouver, B.C. 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

At night, the whole structure resembles a huge suspended urban lantern competing with the moon. Building Zaha Hadid’s Bold Afterlife 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

His stage musical “Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death,” also from 1971, brought unsparingly gritty portraits of black urban life to Broadway. 2010-01-22T22:43:00Z

Large, urban schools face different challenges from small rural ones. Will the Trump Era Transform the School Lunch? 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

The script sets up tantalizing references to her hopeful past, as a star college student on an athletic scholarship, and her subsequent, nomadic existence, which includes time in the urban wastelands of Detroit. Review: ‘The Insurgents’ Stars Cassie Beck in a Lucy Thurber Drama 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Among urban millennials in the west, giving up the nine-to-five grind and living humbly and closer to nature is a popular dream. Country life: the young female farmer who is now a top influencer in China 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Boutique workout studios — specialized, exercise-specific gyms — are exploding in gentrifying urban areas. Is your spin class too young, too thin and too white? 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

“There was something about visiting that tree — my eyes were opened to all the invasive species killing the urban tree canopy,” he said. Like a virus, weeds seize any opportunity to spread — and this summer, they’re ferocious 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

The river, it seems, is a new way to think about Los Angeles, about politics, about social justice, about linear urban forms. Frank Gehry’s variations on a theme 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

This urban fantasy filled with werewolves, shape-shifters, a pack mentality, danger and romance is the Seattle author's first novel. NW Books: Essays by Neal Stephenson; Northwest steamboat captains 2012-08-06T19:19:04Z

The claim is sometimes that the Chinese eat “fetus soup” as an aphrodisiac, because concern that other people are enjoying sex too much is always part and parcel of any anti-choice urban legend. 10 weirdest right-wing Christian conspiracy theories 2013-09-05T17:28:00Z

Nestled on the Rhine across the border from Germany, Strasbourg offers your best chance to experience the urban side of France’s Alsace region. Visit Strasbourg, one of France’s most intriguing cities 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

These are just a sampling of the stories you’ll hear in hushed, can-you-believe-it tones in Christian right circles, where the urban legend is a primary form of communication. 10 weirdest right-wing Christian conspiracy theories 2013-09-05T17:28:00Z

We are also joyful and full people, but there is a lot of trauma that happens in urban communities that we just normalize, right? Me Too founder on her healing memoir and creating change: "All of us contribute to rape culture" 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

It follows two Bronx teenagers with a love for graffiti writing on an urban adventure throughout the city. ArtsBeat: Competing Narratives at SXSW 2012-03-13T21:55:21Z

EEC, an affiliate of Dubai real estate firm Emaar Properties, is one of half a dozen projects in Saudi Arabia that aim to create industrial and urban zones known as “economic cities”. Saudi industrial city plans jazz festival as reforms take hold 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

MaxMara went sporty, on the urban side, with clean tailoring and a taut silhouette spiked with lemon yellow, orange and red. Fashion Review: Milan Steps Out of the Back Seat 2010-09-27T23:01:00Z

“It’s isolated but not as isolated as it was 20 years ago,” said Jason Post, the creator of Panama’s popular animated series, “Usnavy,” which finds comedy in the clashes between urban and traditional Panamanian life. Explorer: At the End of Eden, Rustic Tranquillity 2013-09-12T16:37:46Z

It was the beginning of the bicultural life of an urban Indian. Sherman Alexie on his new memoir, his mother and politics as usual 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Other changes to next year's ceremony include the introduction of new awards for best urban contemporary album and best classical compendium "involving a mixture of classical subgenres". Grammys restore Latin jazz award 2012-06-08T12:25:29Z

Megan Horst is a professor of urban planning in Portland, Ore. Are You My Husband? 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

The opposition of a broadly rural "Bharat" and an increasingly urban, globalised "India" touches a deep nerve among many who are disorientated by the pace of change or sense they have much to lose. India gang rape outcry provokes fierce debate on attitudes to women 2013-01-15T12:45:18Z

Fontainhas is, or was, a Lisbon neighborhood that looks more like a medieval village than a modern urban center, a honeycomb of tiny, cell-like dwellings linked by narrow passageways. DVDs: On DVD, Pedro Costa?s ?Letters From Fontainhas? 2010-03-24T22:24:00Z

Also in the running for best film are corporate downsizing tale "Up in the Air" and urban drama "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," with six nominations each. 2010-02-03T10:23:00Z

The view onto the urban amphitheater that is Naples attracts swarms of tourists. Neapolitan Church Portraits Speak to the Earthly World 2013-01-15T16:43:33Z

They believed more power plants would exacerbate human density and urban growth. A Sensible Climate Change Solution, Borrowed From Sweden 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

No urban enthusiast will want to miss the recovery that Detroit is now attempting. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Detroit 2011-05-05T21:03:26Z

The poems draw heavily on everyday life, exploring various facets of fatherhood, urban experience and its anxieties. Three best poetry books of May 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Census data show that young people, often in search of job opportunities, are flocking to urban areas where the apartment is king. Small Spaces: Storage beds

Skip the urban, beaten path — London, Edinburgh and so on — and drive the countryside. Where to get away from your fellow travelers 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

The epidemic has gone largely unnoticed because urban feral dogs and cats have extraordinary skills at remaining invisible. Baby chimpanzee killed by adult at L. A. Zoo 2012-06-27T13:33:00Z

Freeman gut-renovated a studio apartment in the city's rapidly gentrifying Kreuzkölln district and turned the space into an airy urban refuge. T Magazine: Freund With Benefits 2012-09-12T19:00:54Z

Ironically given his rural seclusion, it was the most urban music of all, hip-hop, that brought him back to musical life. Green Gartside: The brainiest man in pop (apart from Brian Eno) 2011-02-22T21:31:10Z

In the mid-1960s, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched the Model Cities program to spur urban development, ease crowding and reduce poverty in major cities. The Black American City That Almost Came to Be 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

Sexist and dated as Shaw’s much anthologized 1939 story may be, it did lay out truths about urban existence and the unalloyed joy of looking. The Boys in Their Summer Dresses 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

The urban space overall is shaped by and for men. Read Your Way Through Istanbul 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

What they do mirrors the Western craze for ‘urbex’, or the urban exploration of man-made structures. Young Muscovite group risks life and limb to scale tall buildings 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

The film is an urban road movie, set largely within a white stretch limo driving from east to west across midtown Manhattan. Cosmopolis – review 2012-06-16T23:05:37Z

In that sense the debate over the center’s urban and architectural character is not so different from the debate we’re all familiar with about Obama himself. Obama Presidential Center greeted with excitement and wariness on Chicago's South Side 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

The university also named Theaster Gates, the Chicago-based artist with an urban focus, as the director of its Arts and Public Life Initiative. On Elite Campuses, an Arts Race 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Forged in the fires of Black urban life during the postwar era, bebop was, as Amiri Baraka writes in “Blues People,” the style that “led jazz into the arena of art.” 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Bebop 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

There’s a similar interest in both criminal pathology and urban geography. In ‘Maigret Sets a Trap,’ Pack Your Pipe and Track a Killer 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Nielsen’s I.M.D.B. page lists a host of such appearances, on series whose names conjure images of urban decay and embattled masculinity: “Ironside,” “Kojak, “Cannon,” “Columbo.” Unsinkable Captain of Spoofs 2010-12-01T20:43:00Z

Its characters blithely discuss these concerns over drinks or Brianna's well-appointed living room, but only as part of a litany of urban ills. No sweets for the sweet in new "Candyman," which neglects the legend's seductively scary legacy 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z

The university held game design camps for low-income high school students who lived near the urban campus. To get into college, play a game or two 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

“Skate Kitchen,” her second feature, concerns a group of adolescents coming of age in another urban setting: a skate park on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Skate Kitchen’ and ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

Longstaffe-Gowan's beautifully illustrated and lovingly researched history is an appropriately impressive celebration of "England's most innovative and most universally admired urban landscape conceit". The London Square: Gardens in the Midst of Town by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan - review 2012-05-18T21:55:01Z

But in urban areas, you will really want to get around by foot or bicycle. The shortest route to America’s 49,603 historic sites will only take you 50 years 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Now, most urban professionals I know limit themselves to one or two, which perhaps adds to the pressure to make every name count. First Person: The New Baby-Name Anxiety 2013-05-31T20:39:26Z

“Atlanta’s urban renewal and expressway construction had, at the very least,” she declares, “built the stage on which the tragedy in Atlanta could unfold.” Books of The Times: ‘Killer on the Road’ by Ginger Strand 2012-09-04T12:00:00Z

Often the loss or degradation was by design — many were systematically destroyed through racially coded policies like “urban renewal.” 8 Places Across the U.S. That Illuminate Black History 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z

Most of us inhabit urban environments, and to live, work and play in the city is to be constantly bombarded with noise. The garden has lessons for us in this quarantine, if we are willing to stop and listen 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

There are 25 debates covering broad themes such as evolution, the urban space, creativity, violence and privacy. Bidisha: I'm tired of being the token women 2010-04-22T21:00:00Z

The posts on these platforms tend to revolve around celebrity culture, fashion, and urban life. The Chinese Farmer Who Live-Streamed Her Life and Made a Fortune 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

Young professionals flock to these playgrounds after work because the exercise is intense, unstructured and sociable; the gyms may be one of the last urban locales where talking to strangers is encouraged. Social Climbing Has a Whole New Meaning 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

If this is an urban yard, care must be taken not to disrupt utility pipes and lines that may pass through. Advice for Renovating Your Home 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Welded steel assemblage sculptures by Bridget Beck gather urban detritus — security gate, coat hooks, rebar, parts of bus benches, etc. — which she unifies through monochrome paint jobs and sets on wheels for easy mobility. Uncharted seas in 'How to Build a Foghorn' at Samuel Freeman Gallery 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Their films have different styles: Lust's are urban and modern, Joy's are visual and sensory and Arrowsmith's are a bit more hardcore. Porn made for women, by women 2011-03-22T09:00:00Z

But as with the show’s first part, this segment gives us an almost achingly ordinary-seeming type — the narcissistic, superficial urban singleton — and strips it to its disquieting core. Hate, Hope and Healing at Under the Radar 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

Fifty percent of the urban core is now set aside for parking, says Shannon Bassett, assistant professor of architecture and urbanism at the University of South Florida. Tampa: America’s hottest mess 2012-08-18T16:00:00Z

It transpires that, as with too many of the toughest jobs in the urban economy, some of the most educated people in the restaurant kitchen are the ones working the sinks on the lowest wage. Wash, clean, scrub: Can Jay Rayner hack life as a kitchen porter? 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

Supermarkets and hypermarkets multiplied until shopping malls became urban hubs. Poland's artists now speak to the world 2011-04-04T21:00:00Z

Tommy Orange is, with his novel about characters gathering for a tribal powwow in urban Oakland, Calif. Are they bridging the gap between East and West, and testing the nuances of immigration and exile? 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

In this 1999 work, Mr. Garland fuses ballet technique with black vernacular dance, or, as he puts it in a program note, “postmodern urban neo-classicism.” Dance Theater of Harlem Comes to Celebrate Brooklyn! 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

It served as a pop-culture preview and barometer of fashion, hairstyles and urban patois. Don Cornelius took 'Soul Train' on pioneering trip 2012-02-01T20:32:12Z

Additionally, shifting social norms — specifically the increased acceptance of pre-marital sex and divorce — have effectively led to a lessened demand, even as supply increases in urban areas around the world. The recession has pushed sex worker prices way down 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

The reformers and the journalists didn’t know that the foyer, the fire escape, and the rooftop were stretches of urban beach. An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

It’s curious that today, with many cities thriving once again and young people flocking to urban enclaves, “the city” doesn’t conjure much in the visual imagination. Art review: ‘Architectural Image, 1920-1950’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

And she has streamed in, hot from the street, the urban culture of the South Central Los Angeles neighborhood where she grew up and where she still lives. Met’s Beloved Roof Garden Draws on Ancient Egypt and South Central L.A. 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z

But from Thursday through Sunday, the backdrop for the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival will be the downtown Newark arts district, the first urban setting for this celebration, the largest poetry event in North America. Urban Beat for Poetry Festival 2010-10-05T22:37:00Z

Capper's teeth bite into pertinent issues like urban regeneration and what this might mean for locals, while an exhibition of drawings and blueprints illuminate his thinking back at the gallery's project space. This week's new exhibitions 2011-08-05T23:09:02Z

Not so much lately; it’s almost as if novels themselves had had to flee the post-1960s urban blight. Books of The Times: ‘Say Nice Things About Detroit,’ Scott Lasser’s New Novel 2012-08-28T21:15:58Z

At first, your book seems like a portrayal of a very cool one, but by the ending pages, it’s developed into a sneaky but trenchant critique of urban planning and an exploration of terrorism. Building the alternate-universe New York: Novelists Seth Fried and K Chess in conversation 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

The legacy of these sporting facilities and the area’s predicted urban regeneration is, of course, unproved. London 2012 anti-logos 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z

When you’re the principal of a busy urban high school, on your feet for 10 hours a day, breaking up fights, appeasing overworked faculty and meeting with anxious parents, sleep comes pretty easy. Wilson High Principal Pete Cahall: ‘It’s time to come out’ as gay

It surveyed the conflicted American attitudes about the merits of rural and urban life. Morton White, Philosopher of Holistic Pragmatism, Dies at 99 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

Bombay is the first and last word of this first novel, an urban history written by a former drug addict through the changing composition of opiates and the changing characters of their users. Man Booker 2012: Shortlist at a glance 2012-09-11T15:43:40Z

The march, he argued, purported to unite all of France but in fact brought together an urban, historically atheist elite and a rural, Roman Catholic, traditionally anti-republican demographic, but not the Muslim underclass. Charlie Hebdo Award at PEN Gala Sparks More Debate 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

Whether it will work is a big if — Atlantic City is bigger than Asbury Park, with true urban problems. Casinos aren’t the future 2012-06-02T16:00:00Z

The artist is intentionally juxtaposing the rural areas of her home state with the urban cityscape of New York. In Brooklyn Bridge Park, Artwork Confronts Climate Change 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z

The firm helped to redefine Chicago’s urban landscape after the devastating fire of 1871. AD remembers the architect behind iconic American buildings 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Among its celebrated projects is a multicultural urban park in Copenhagen specifically designed to address religious and cultural diversity, and the rising tension between immigrants from the Islamic world and other Danes. Why is this architecture firm dealing with the NFL and Dan Snyder? 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

While he isn’t a dancer, Johnson said that as an artist, he thinks of his process as a dance; as a young man he was drawn to urban dance and breaking. How to Breathe New Life Into Martha Graham’s Dances? Infuse Them With Art. 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z

Some rooms have windows to the outside that can be opened for singers who like to avoid air-conditioning or find comfort in urban street sounds. National Opera Center Is to Open in Manhattan 2012-09-14T16:47:40Z

Topics: Mitt Romney, Urban Outfitters Urban Outfitters has a reputation for selling edgy cool to urban hipsters. Urban Outfitters loves Mitt 2012-06-01T16:30:00Z

The league encouraged its members to roam the city and direct an intimate eye at urban subjects, and its newsletter addressed the role of photography in the political climate. The Week Ahead: Mar. 25 ? 31 2012-03-23T14:29:22Z

Consider a teacher who graduates from a teacher-preparation program and has job prospects at both an affluent suburban school and what can be described as a poor urban school. For white folks who teach in the hood: A lesson in campus colonialism 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

“People in urban areas expect streets to be part of the urban environment.” Art Deco Los Angeles 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

But this stylish, urban way of living doesn’t simply materialize. Blight of fancy: D.C. starts to feel like ‘Mad Max’ amid constant construction 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

Through millenniums of trial and error, these settlements grew larger and became more complex as more of our ancestors opted for the urban lifestyle. An archaeologist looks at our lives in cities, over millenniums 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

A spin around the world, from utopian retreats to urban adventures. T Magazine: The Best in Travel 2011-12-30T14:00:05Z

Emanuel sought a fresh perspective at the agency and looked for a candidate who knows how to manage complex real estate transactions and property in an urban environment. Emanuel names exec new CHA chief 2011-09-22T17:01:00Z

On the other hand, certain facts of urban minority life are, and look, the same through almost anyone’s viewfinder. Mean Streets, Kind Cameras 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Bridget Jones’s Diary opened up an adult, metropolitan world full of “urban families”, mini breaks to Paris and posh women with names like Perpetua. My favourite film aged 12: Bridget Jones's Diary 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

An estimated 50,000 buildings are set to be demolished in an "urban renewal" project to make the city safe from earthquakes. Gentrification tears at Istanbul's historically diverse fabric 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

Roadways are well maintained, though traffic is congested in urban areas. Why your next vacation should be in the Netherlands 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

“This pandemic will be exploited to cancel contracts and close clubs,” says DJ Mira, who recently played a United We Stream set for KaterBlau, a nightclub set in an urban village with techno-hippy roots. A new form of house music: Berlin clubs livestream DJ sets 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

The group's central premise can't be dismissed: The institutional structures of Los Angeles theater are too weak for an urban center of this size and cultural prestige. L.A.'s theater community resumes discussion of wages and fiscal health 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

The visceral reaction is to fume — why can’t one of the richest urban epicenters deal with poverty that is not hidden, unlike most poverty in America. When cities fail their residents: Why can’t wealthy cities fix the homeless problem? 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

The tower is an example of how new cities in this region, like Astana, are attracting top architectural talent because of their deep resources and the artistic opportunities that a blank urban canvas presents. In Kazakhstan, a Shimmering Skyline on the Steppe 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

They can celebrate the borough’s urban side, too, by exploring the booming culture of an imaginary Bronx block, creating work alongside professional artists and eventually recording songs in a studio. For Bronx Children’s Museum, a Long-Awaited Home 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

But for the moment, she’s just one in the throng of fit, urban nature lovers. Carmen Cusack, star of Edie Brickell and Steve Martin’s 'Bright Star,' finds her place in L.A. 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

In an urban context it is simply a measure for quantifying people or buildings or housing units in a given space. Everything You Think You Know About Housing Is Probably Wrong 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

City Hall today doesn’t seem to grasp the concept of urban design. It’s a Crumbling Road to Despair. Can New York Fix the B.Q.E.? 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

Ben Drew, aka Plan B, presents his east London urban drama Ill Manors, while The Pact targets the solid audience for female-skewing horror. Prometheus: longer legs than Alien? 2012-06-07T11:24:58Z

Free to view this weekend and then by appointment until Jan. 3 — a good outdoor urban destination in pandemic times — they inspire by their indeterminacy, their acceptance and their beauty. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

Pilshchykov is the man behind the urban legend of the Ghost of Kyiv, an ace pilot alleged to have shot down six planes within the first 30 hours of the war. Sean Penn's "Superpower" renews Zelenskyy's relationship with Hollywood to sell the politics of war 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z

Any solutions that increase locally grown produce on shop shelves could improve the availability of fresh food, particularly in urban areas. The key to mitigating food waste and solving supermarket shortages? Ugly fruits and vegetables 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

They're also typically located in or adjacent to urban areas, which was initially important to me. My virtual life as a jam maker in "Stardew Valley," where small-batch food takes down Big Business 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

The directors portray them in their houses, with improvised sets, revealing a collection of urban curiosities. The Carpetbagger: New Zealand Vampires and Nazi Zombies at Sundance 2013-12-05T21:03:46Z

But my Oklahoma City was not entirely an urban entity and was not a place we ever reached by air. “Boom Town”: Is Oklahoma City the “Great Minor City” of America? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

“And he’s talking about an urban generation that uses that word in a completely different way.’ Why Kanye West Is 'a Monster', According to Paul McCartney 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Until that happens, the center has to hope a big gamble pays off: that it can create a simulacrum of urban life and vitality inside the Reach, even as the city itself shimmers from afar. Perspective | At 50, Kennedy Center can no longer be a cultural island 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

“I knew for the work to function I need a location on a hillside where there’s a view of urban sprawl,” he told me in a phone interview. Doug Aitken's 'Mirage': a funhouse mirror for the age of social media 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

All the usual devices are employed, from female guest vocalists to mildly priapic strutting on the "urban" City is Ours, but originality is manifestly lacking. Big Time Rush: BTR ? review 2011-07-14T22:40:01Z

His latest film is “Chi-Raq,” an urban musical satire set for release on Dec. 4 by Amazon Studios with Roadside Attractions. For Spike Lee, an Honorary Oscar, but Diversity Takes Center Stage 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

Yet think of campfire ghost stories and urban legends such as the Hook, as well as innumerable teen horror flicks. Michael Dirda on horror and specialty presses

Then the urban decay that would plague many cities around the globe began to take its toll. Mexico City: what to see plus the best bars, restaurants and hotels 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Why, she asks, is a “scratch on a column” at Palmyra more scandalous than the wholesale destruction of Syria’s urban architecture? Trapped in Homs, Architect Imagines a New Future for Syrian Cities 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

The gay western “Brokeback Mountain” was an early front-runner and theories abound about why voters gave its filmmaker, Ang Lee, the best director Oscar but the top prize to Paul Haggis’s urban drama. When Best Picture Winners Overcome a Release Early in the Year 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z

Like the villain in the final reel of a slasher movie, the urban legends that surround Halloween refuse to die – in fact, social media seems to have given them a new lease of life. Halloween myths and urban legends that just won't die 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

But curiously the great set-pieces of the novel are its descriptions of classical music and the urban landscapes of a polluted yet lively Earth. 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson – review 2012-06-14T07:00:03Z

Yet the culture of urban hipsters — people who wore trucker hats but had never been in a truck — was still mainly the province of places like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Perspective | Washington is now a cool city. That’s terrible news for American democracy. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

While Paris may call itself the “City of Light,” Lyon is a leader in urban lighting design and hosts conventions on the topic. Loving Lyon: France’s culinary capital is off the tourist path 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

This turned into a sleeper hit, and its quirky, urban vibe complemented her budding image. Lady Gaga vs Streisand: Will “A Star Is Born” launch a billion-dollar career at the box office 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

A walk-in fantasia of urban infrastructure, with crisscrossing bridges and towering scaffolds, it’s as upbeat as the Picasso is elegiac. Art Review | 'Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris': Picasso and Peers at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2010-04-01T22:49:00Z

Japan’s reputation as an overcrowded and urban country extends only to the coastal plains where the majority of the population live. Walking holidays in Japan: the best mountain hikes to tackle 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

All of a sudden, toward the end of the 19th century, it became possible to conceive of ordinary urban commercial and residential buildings whose height would surpass the limits of human stamina. Review: ‘Tall’ Is a Little Movie About How Buildings Got So Big 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

But Mister Cee always knew he would eventually “make the transition to urban adult radio,” Mr. Green added. The Hip-Hop D.J. Mister Cee Spins On After Quitting Hot 97 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

It has since been surpassed by The Mermaid, another locally made fantasy/adventure film targeted at the country’s huge new urban cinema audience, which has taken $500m since its release in February. China helps boost global movie earnings to record $38bn 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

Landry’s Cajun Restaurant and Diesi’s Little Capitol Truck Stop also sit astride the Interstate, both twice as good at half the cost of most urban eateries. Waffle House to commit culinary crime with 'fanciest' location in New Orleans 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

While its other urban outposts are primarily in Asia and the Pacific islands — there are three T Gallerias in Australia and New Zealand and one in Hawaii — the Fondaco will be DFS’s first European location. In Venice, Duty-Free Shopping Takes on a Whole New Look 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

We were a thousand-strong student body who were resolutely northern, urban and working class. My belated thank you to Liz Lochhead 2012-08-17T13:00:01Z

The honey-colored fabric — 440,000 square feet of woven polyamide covering the bridge and its 44 lamps — blended harmoniously with Paris’s urban palette, and the bridge’s artful draping was deemed worthy of a couture house. Christo, Artist Who Wrapped and Festooned on an Epic Scale, Dies at 84 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z

The way the new lines meet the urban fabric also suggests an imperfect sort of progress, a step in the direction of a more enlightened approach. Why the Expo Line to Santa Monica marks unprecedented progress in the history of American cities 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

The late Carlos Monsiváis, perhaps Mexico’s finest urban chronicler, described Juan Gabriel as an “idol” who had “created a musical reality all his own.” Postscript: The Festive Genius of Juan Gabriel, 1950-2016 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

“Lazarus” is visually compelling, with depictions of rural and urban Malawi, East African people with albinism, headlines about the crisis, and survivors of violent attacks. How a Busker Became an International Advocate for People with Albinism 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

The effects are ambitious, and one spectacular urban catastrophe wittily concludes with a collapsing wall nudging a Newton's cradle just hard enough to set it in motion. Pacific Rim – review 2013-07-11T14:30:00Z

He graduated from Towson University and received a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Westminster in London. Joshua Ghaffari, Mark Tyndall 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

Veblen, meanwhile, lives in a bungalow she's turned into a little paradise of urban wilderness — a sanctuary from her difficult, hypochondria-ridden mother. 'The Portable Veblen' is deep, wise and eccentric ... and full of squirrels 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

We all occupy urban spaces: gray corridors surrounded by structures with little or no life to them. Street party will welcome SAM installation 2013-03-22T22:39:05Z

Clean, lively and popular with travelers, this city is an intriguing blend of medieval history, youthful energy and urban sophistication. Reconnecting with Avignon — a medieval town with a youthful attitude 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Humans are still searching for more urban space, as is evident in “Super Skyscrapers,” a four-part series whose first installment is also on PBS on Wednesday. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Roman Catacomb Mystery’ and ‘Super Skyscrapers’ on PBS 2014-02-04T22:33:09Z

To remind, Mr. Pitt’s interests include architecture, furniture design and urban planning. Who Is Neri Oxman? 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z

Days were spent exploring the city’s urban villages, some within Perth and others right outside it. Next Stop : Catching Perth’s Wave in Western Australia 2014-02-27T20:21:56Z

As with the widespread demolition of urban Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, so in the past decade the "pathfinder" clearances ordered by the housing minister Yvette Cooper led to visceral opposition. We all care about beauty ? why don't politicians? 2010-04-08T07:06:00Z

It also improves on the original, at least grammatically: "Newpo-o-o-rt: concrete jumble, nothing in order" not only accurately describes the city's unplanned urban sprawl, but makes sense. Newport State of Mind improves on the original 2010-08-01T21:00:00Z

Writing her book as urban women’s lit was also a way for de León to defy the claim that literary fiction is inherently more valuable than commercial fiction. This professor turned to erotic fiction to promote social change 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

The federal cleanup, finally completed in 2012, became the largest urban Superfund project in America. In Chicago and Philadelphia, the Difference a Park Makes 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

For 900 years Moenjodaro, a city in what is now Pakistan, was the urban hub of a thriving civilization, the New York or London of its day. Ghost Cities Of 2100 2010-07-27T16:00:00Z

In January, social media users in Britain highlighted the disparity at the urban music festival Wireless, where a 40-strong initial lineup included only three women. Some Music Festivals Balk at Booking 50% Female Acts. One Just Did It. 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Miles Howard is a writer based in Boston who focuses on outdoor and urban recreation. Flood of hikers, protective gear requirements could pose challenges for search-and-rescue teams 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

Environment plays its part, though you'd be hard pressed to find the segregated hopelessness of Chicago's ghettoes in even the most deprived areas of urban Britain. Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z

This week, we’re bringing you a selection of pieces about urban planning and changing city landscapes, including those of New York. Sunday Reading: American Cityscapes 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

Rangeland and foothill frontiers subsequently became expansive low-density subdivisions, and carbon-belching SUVs chugged onto new roads being built farther and farther away from the urban core. The climate bites back 2012-08-31T14:52:00Z

Maybe because the trailer conveyed a sense of optimism amid scenes of Black urban life, many moviegoers were expecting another “Boyz N the Hood,” which had met with universal acclaim two years earlier. ‘Menace II Society’ at 30: A Bleak Nightmare Then, a Milestone Now 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

Thankfully, "Resistance 3" is not all based in typical American urban centers. Game On: 'Resistance 3' is a keeper 2011-09-27T22:16:04Z

Old jazz haunts just don't mesh with urban renewal. New Orleans jazz landmark razed in rebuilding push 2011-01-07T11:01:04Z

Buffalo could become a leader in forward-thinking urban design and a cultural tourist destination, advocates say. Once So Chic and Swooshy, Freeways Are Falling Out of Favor 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

In the Global South, the same forces pull people off the land by the hundreds of millions, leading to poverty, rapidly swelling urban slums and waves of economic refugees. Unlike a globalized food system, local food won’t destroy the environment 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

The Wetro light rail zipping overhead creates a splash zone of urban blight in its wake. ‘Elemental’ Review: Sparks Fly 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

And its hardscrabble spirit is still alive in Bryant’s current nonprofit enterprise, Project EATS, an urban farming initiative which, since 2008, has been planting communal vegetable gardens in underserved neighborhoods in New York City. JAM, a Gate-Crashing Gallery, Expanded the Idea of Blackness 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

In Madrona, an urban enclave ripe with restaurants of many stripes, Restaurant Bea nudges the needle upmarket, much as its predecessors, June and Cremant, did. Restaurant Bea in Madrona: Down-home and sophisticated cooking served side by side 2012-06-21T20:19:03Z

Yet even after all we’ve learned about them, you still hear people calling for the Chinatown bus model to be applied to all manner of other urban problems. When libertarianism fails 2012-06-09T16:00:00Z

They have shown a particular talent for reimagining structures left over from the boom years before World War I. War, division, and aggressive urban planning created plenty of ruins, but the survivors are surprisingly numerous. 2010-01-19T18:11:00Z

Shantiniketan and its school represented an idea as much as a place: people do their best learning and thinking when they divorce themselves from the distractions of urban life and reconnect with their natural environment. Footsteps: Where a Poet’s Vision Lives on in India 2013-02-01T18:07:13Z

There's space adventures, gritty urban dramas, respectful biopics and plenty of those what?! moments that 2012 seemed to get just right. Close up: New year, new films 2013-01-03T17:12:20Z

PROBLEMATIC: How to attract a new living to facilitate the social and urban mixity? Opinionator: Why Don?t We Read About Architecture? 2012-03-03T01:30:43Z

The crisis follows the stalling of the market for housing conversions, which put a premium on the sturdy buildings – stone in Yorkshire and brick in Lancashire – as characterful urban housing. Trouble at mill: recession brings renewed threat of bulldozers 2011-03-21T11:55:05Z

A new urban fantasy by Washington state author Briggs featuring Mercy Thompson, a car mechanic/shape-shifter who associates with witches, werewolves, vampires and ordinary people. Local books: The Long Way Home, bilingual children's books and new urban fantasy 2011-03-08T00:28:10Z

Carol is the sister who couldn’t quite escape the pitfalls of poor, urban life, that threadbare line where self-medication and addiction intersect. Empire recap: season two, episode nine – Sinned Against 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

Most in the UK will know him merely as one of the more inescapable figureheads of the urban/electro fusion that has dominated in the pop landscape for the last three years. Pitbull: 'I would be hypocritical to perform there' 2011-08-25T21:00:01Z

But urban redevelopment in the 1960s closed most of the clubs and drove away many of the musicians. Arts: Sleepy Jazz Scene Shows Signs of Awakening 2010-05-16T01:58:00Z

They belong to a cosmopolitan, urban upper middle class that flourishes in the cities of the developed world. | 'Carnage': Roman Polanski?s ?Carnage,? With Jodie Foster - Review 2011-12-15T15:59:53Z

Monument Avenue is just one example of how the City Beautiful movement established a canon of urban beauty across America. Perspective | On Richmond’s evolving Monument Avenue, myth and ugly lies run deep 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

Surrounding the Wendy’s is a “virtual traffic circle,” a polite way to refer to this urban aneurysm — a pair of triangles, really, with a roundabout movement forced upon them. What’s a Wendy’s doing there? The story of Washington’s weirdest traffic circle. 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

About 30 international galleries will present urban art in its many forms, including graffiti, tattoos and even mainstream advertising. In Transit Blog: Street Art Presented Live at Berlin Fair 2011-10-09T10:00:04Z

District San Juan will pack an array of entertainment options — urban zip lines, performance venues, hotels, restaurants, bars and a day-night disco — into a five-acre space. Puerto Rico puts Hurricane Maria — and the bulk of the recovery — behind it 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Baker writes that his inspirations include urban decay and “the spectacle of war.” In the galleries: A photojournalist’s journey 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Credit Heather Staples for creating the mood at this urban bistro; the food bears chef Scott Staples' trademark stamp of rustic refinement. Restaurant Zoe: Rustic flair at new digs on Capitol Hill 2012-06-07T20:38:06Z

It is commonly found in parks, highway medians and shoulders, trails, urban areas, and gardens across the entire East Coast, Pacific Northwest, and Midwest. What is garlic mustard? (It’s not garlic mixed with mustard) 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

Indigenous Enterprise captures the beauty of Native American dances in urban settings. 5 Things to Do This New Year’s Weekend 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

Her “Selected Works” reveal a poet with interests in astronomy, theology, gastronomy, dreams, urban life and gender inequality: “Foolish men who accuse women without reason,” she writes in one poem. Read Your Way Through Mexico City 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

As in the Bronx in the same decade, “urban renewal” targeted Black and immigrant neighborhoods, boxing them in and ripping them apart. Greenwood Rising Links Tulsa’s Tragic History to Today’s Struggles 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

But this runs counter to the narrative of the Trump phenomenon: Central to the Trump’s ascendancy is a rejection of elites reigning from urban centers and the coasts, overrepresented at universities and in Hollywood, apparently. No sympathy: How Ayn Rand’s “elitism” lives on in the Trump administration 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

The many other devastating wars of recent decades notwithstanding, the urban bloodletting along the Tigris shocked the world. A history of violence 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

This month, the government pledged to create 9 million urban jobs. Chinese millennials to enter worst job market in nation’s history 2013-05-28T20:11:00Z

Ms. Thompson was born in Chicago on Aug. 18, 1947, graduated from the University of Illinois in 1969 and earned a master’s degree in urban studies and law at Loyola University in Chicago in 1973. Patricia Thompson, TV Producer and Documentary Maker, Dies at 63 2010-12-22T05:27:57Z

By contrast, the opera house seems almost serene – remarkable given that it's the latest design by Zaha Hadid, an architect celebrated for buildings that shoot across the urban landscape like bolts of lightning. Move over, Sydney: Zaha Hadid's Guangzhou Opera House 2011-02-28T21:30:00Z

Trip’s report says that 38% of the major urban roads in New York state and 40% in New Jersey are in poor condition. Taking a road trip this summer? Enjoy America's crumbling infrastructure 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

A.We need to reinvent and recreate the urban commons as a place where humans interact in a much more relational way, not just in a transactional way. The technology that brought us Airbnb and Uber can do so much more 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

Ms. Hollander frequently tailors her selections to Lower Manhattan’s history as a thriving seaport and mercantile center — the engine that initially drove the development of New York’s urban environment. Art Review: ‘Compass: Folk Art in Four Directions,’ at South Street Seaport 2012-08-02T23:17:05Z

Crime and other complexities of urban life also became more prevalent. Mexico City as the Director of ‘Roma’ Remembers It (and Hears It) 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Be that as it may, many urban views in the exhibition appear influenced by Atget’s somber attentiveness to the city’s byways. Art Review | 'Twilight Visions': Shocking Is Poetic at International Center of Photography 2010-03-11T23:02:00Z

Both the urban and rural locations are realised through lyrically descriptive writing of the highest quality. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z

The popularity of food sold by street vendors is part of a global shift in urban areas to "fast foods". Nigeria’s street food adds to the plastic problem — green leaves offer a solution 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

Selldorf, for her part, helped choreograph many of the big moves in this complicated urban and architectural rehabilitation effort. Why does this huge new gallery in downtown L.A. underwhelm? It's a familiar story 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

“I think of these pants as urban wear meets outerwear, because they are aesthetically designed but also durable,” Mr. Rapp said. Noticed: Pants Designed to Outsmart Pickpockets 2012-07-11T18:46:16Z

The younger Mr. Speer’s impact on urban landscapes was ultimately far greater than that of his father, whose grandiose architectural plans for the Nazi Third Reich were never realized. Albert Speer Jr., Architect and Son of Hitler Confidant, Dies at 83 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

After evolving from a scientific invention to a means of urban advertising, neon became an artistic medium in its own right during the 1960s. In Transit Blog: Seeing Neon, in All Its Brilliance, in Paris Exhibition 2012-02-22T12:29:06Z

Opened in the footpath around the Brookland-CUA Metro station last fall, Monroe Street Market’s Arts Walk is 27 artist studios that are also, effectively, high-ceilinged shops representing a curious experiment in urban growth. At Brookland’s newest apartments, an unlikely amenity: Artists.

A raw, urban romanticism, a whiff of youthful daring came off his art. Mat Collishaw: still sensational 2013-04-26T15:30:00Z

Opened in March 2017, the ambitious hotel is part of an urban renewal project aimed at transforming Brunkebergstorg, a once-dreary square in the city center, into a lively gathering point for visitors and locals alike. In Stockholm, a Hotel That’s Solid and Social 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z

Dr. Lung-Amam, the professor of urban studies and planning, said many suburbs lack public transportation and are not zoned for mixed-use development, so homes and businesses can’t exist in the same area. America’s Next Great Restaurants Are in the Suburbs. But Can They Thrive There? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

It’s the rare ski day that begins with sunrise over an urban skyline. Aboard the Winter Park Express, train it from downtown Denver to the slopes 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Called Little Island, this 2.4-acre urban green space is built on tulip-shaped concrete containers just off the west edge of Manhattan. Review | An artificial island with a real upside 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, immigration brought millions of new people to the United States just as the nation’s workforce shifted from predominantly rural and farm labor to urban and industrial work. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z

“The Wire,” likewise, delivered a five-season treatise on urban policy in the form of a police serial. Review: ‘Yellowstone’ Wrangles Daddy Issues on the Range 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

If you feel overwhelmed by sprawling urban areas, pad your itinerary with trips to smaller towns and villages — Oaxaca instead of Mexico City, for instance. The most frequently asked travel questions answered 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Performers engaging with this urban space include the City Meditation Crew, who, in "Radiant Silver Circle," will manifest "attentiveness and open awareness through secular practices of contemplation in public." Lines between nature and artifice blurred in outdoor exhibit 2010-07-01T20:46:00Z

The deluge is turning a historically modest urban enclave into something on the order of a commuters' bedroom suburb — albeit one with amenities galore and a cost of living to match. SFMOMA's expansion offers a deep dive into blue-chip artists' works 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Six months later Bill had relocated to Sydney, and Ruby and I found ourselves living in Logan City, just south of Brisbane, officially one of Australia’s poorest urban areas. Melissa Lucashenko: 'If I live to be 100, I’ll never forget the first day I visited my daughter on that ward' 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

SUN Basics on keeping chickens in urban yards, 2 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-06-27T21:26:24Z

Indeed, while the grim years that inspired the depressive romanticism of bands like Joy Division and the Smiths have made way for large-scale urban development, Manchester’s prolific musical energy hasn’t dissipated. Next Stop: A New Act for Manchester 2011-04-29T19:37:03Z

It is an inadvertently revealing snapshot of social change over fifty years, but specifically revealing of urban perspectives on a predominantly rural state. As Maine goes, so goes the nation: Will this small city’s mayoral election predict a Trump victory in 2016? 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

Playing down sizzling shades in favor of more subdued “off” colors like khaki green and mustard yellow, Veronica Etro called her vision “a new urban slant on the exotic.” Special Report: No Operatic Shout From the Heart 2010-09-24T18:06:00Z

Beth Piatote’s marvelous debut short story collection explores crossroads in the lives of unforgettable Indigenous characters within urban, suburban, rural and reservation settings, both past and present. October must-reads: "Call Me by Your Name" sequel to memoirs galore 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

His inspirations — a pastiche of urban signage, modern technology, tribal elements and rave culture — were “fractured,” he told Amy Larocca of New York magazine. New York Fashion Week: Another Season, Another Show 2011-02-10T00:06:03Z

B-boys and b-girls, popping, locking and acrobatics infuse the story with a contemporary, urban energy — so does the fact that it’s set in New York City. 5 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

The construction of most public housing required the resettlement of thousands of households, often those of working class African-Americans, in the destructive process known as urban renewal. The Plight of the Urban Planner 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

A 26-year-old white woman from an impoverished London borough, doing urban performance with a whiff of social commentary. Kate Tempest: the performance poet who can't be ignored 2013-04-10T14:50:13Z

Faced with cholera and calamitous urban living conditions in the early 1800s, city planners ran roughshod over property rights to install the street grid. Critic’s Notebook: Changes Needed After Hurricane Sandy Include Politics 2012-11-19T23:00:17Z

This is not a critique of Teach for America per se—as it serves a need in urban and rural communities. For white folks who teach in the hood: A lesson in campus colonialism 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

As various rap artists have pointed out, the violence that takes place in urban communities is directly connected to the world of politics. This unusual course examines rap lyrics about Reagan and the 1980s 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z

Marine and coastal margins were found by some distance to be the happiest locations, with responses approximately six points higher than in a continuous urban environment. Blue spaces: why time spent near water is the secret of happiness 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

“Collectively they become a kind of urban jungle, suspended like Calder mobiles with the anti-utilitarian aesthetic of Duchamp ready-mades,” Mr. Macaulay wrote. Holiday Museum Guide: Where to See Art This Season 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

"It's much tougher to do in an urban area," he said. Libyan rebels capture base defending Tripoli 2011-08-21T15:31:00Z

Partying aside, I find the urban Amazon a fascinating place – so much like other Brazilian cities, and yet so oddly different. Frugal Traveler: Nightlife and Beaches in Brazil, for Less Than the Cost of Rio 2011-03-08T21:15:24Z

Mr. Harrison depicts the superficially cheery world inside the S.D.O., where Katha and Ryu move in the second act, with the same sly humor he brings to the urban angst of the first. | 'Maple and Vine': ?Maple and Vine? at Playwrights Horizons - Review 2011-12-08T03:01:15Z

Come here for a journey to the centre of the earth, a magical urban garden, a programme of summer nights including a Grimm Brothers-inspired midnight feast. Liverpool travel tips: a different kind of magical mystery tour 2013-02-04T09:00:13Z

Why not give some sense of the changing urban landscape and its significance? Exhibition Review: A View Inside King Kong?s Perch 2011-07-16T00:00:07Z

As a character, Kari — who is an urban Indian of Apache and Chickasaw descent — is terrifically alive. An Ancient Bracelet, a Personal Haunting and an Overdue Reckoning 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z

But most of his scenarios are urban, and combine sheer fancy with close observation of D.C. Review | In the galleries: Whimsy rendered starkly, in black and white 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

Pause at Darwin, an urban renovation project, billed as a green-economy hub in former military barracks that now house a skate park, pop-up shops, beer gardens and an urban farm. 36 Hours in Bordeaux 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

He has also used deadpan phrases to evoke life on the road, whether that’s an endless stretch of barren highway or the tangle of urban sprawl. Inside Art: Contemporary Photos Given to National Gallery 2014-03-13T21:18:12Z

Lined up against shopkeepers hawking everything from fresh parsley to colorful socks, Marrakech's historic booksellers face an uncertain future as authorities plan an urban makeover in one of Morocco's tourist hubs. Marrakech's historic booksellers once again face eviction 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

We see her in a meditational posture on a mattress, watching a television on which clips from Thai soap operas alternate with scenes of violent urban rioting. ‘Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook,’ a SculptureCenter Exhibition 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

This is as far away from the urban blight and shoot-em-up nature of the typical black series, typified by the Starz network’s Power. Is this a golden age for black TV makers or another false dawn? 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

If you just want to hold one, try a social club like the one in Brooklyn that hosts urban wood-chopping workshops for “desk job warriors” who crave timber skills and connection to the outdoors. Our Lives in the Time of Extremely Fancy Axes 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

Nature is the strange other in “The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock” — the “live” mermaid turns out to be viciously hostile to the novel’s urban dwellers. The Malevolent Little Mermaid: Not Your Usual Fantasy Heroine 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

But what the movie may spawn, in some quarters at least, is yet another round of 1970s-inflected-Afro urban chic. Eddie Murphy’s Latest Look Is Ripe for Appropriation 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

We learn of the activities of the Tracking and Pursuit Department, which monitors unusual crimes, investigates urban legends and makes predictions about future attacks. In ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad,’ a Fantastical Manifestation of War’s Cruelties 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

I travel a lot and I love urban life generally. My Vancouver: An Ever-Unfolding Story 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

That is, not just to the young and able-bodied but to people with various disabilities, from the wheelchair-bound to those with cognitive impairments, and to financially challenged urban youth and families. Frugal Traveler: Frugal, but With Plenty to Give 2009-12-16T18:23:00Z

The color palette was urban darks with flashes of bright contrast. Milan designers propose assertive winter looks 2013-02-25T20:38:10Z

As the story's protagonist, "your" meteoric rise is charted in the novel from rural poverty to urban success. Mohsin Hamid 2013-03-26T19:07:18Z

The film's subjects attribute the neighborhood's unraveling to urban planner Robert Moses' Cross Bronx Expressway, which displaced more than 1,500 families. 'Rubble Kings' details the gritty Bronx of the 1960s and '70s 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

The Getaway colonies are no more than a two-hour drive from such major urban centers as D.C., With no contact and substantial space, Getaway’s tiny houses were ahead of their time 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

“The urban population is growing exponentially, and the seas are changing,” says Michael Sorkin, an architect and director of the urban-design graduate program at City College of New York. This Floating City May Be The Future of Coastal Living 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

In the park's boathouse, you can visit the first urban Audubon Center for hands-on nature exhibits. New York City Parks Worth Visiting 2010-03-29T22:00:00Z

Mr. Tsang arrived in Hong Kong as a teenage refugee from Guangdong, a southern province bordering Hong Kong, in the 1930s, and began his urban painting in the 1950s. Art: King of Kowloon Finally Gets Respect 2011-05-04T12:58:39Z

Rural land-use rights are especially tricky, since land in the countryside is collectively owned and, technically, it is illegal for urban residents to own rural land. Architects See Potential in China’s Countryside 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

The campaign also urges shuffle fans to classify themselves as "urban house" lovers. No foot shuffling … and other weird bans dividing the house club scene 2013-01-31T11:55:49Z

Poppy presents herself as an introverted woman with a Bettie Page haircut and huge glasses – a mousy urban intellectual. We tried the bizarre "Only Murders in the Building" sandwich and have thoughts 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z

But when Ms. Karan hit the sweet spot, as with a purple organza blouse with an embroidered papery linen skirt, her clothes looked ready for New York’s urban jungle. Special Report: Fashion: Carlos Miele, Carolina Herrera and Marc by Marc Jacobs Focus on Blending Inspirations 2011-09-13T15:54:16Z

On the sidewalk, a teenage girl yells up to a window at the woman throwing the clothes from a high floor of an urban housing project. Turning Points: Three Movies Centering on Young Women 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

I was very affected when I was young as a kid living in an urban environment. A Minute With: Leonardo DiCaprio in "Shutter Island" 2010-02-18T18:03:00Z

Multi-storey creations made from industrial materials and acre-sized works bulldozed into remote desert landscapes offered an alternative to the empty glitz of chic urban spaces. Gigantism 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

I loved their London-centered songs, even if I couldn’t appreciate the urban geography — the West End, King’s Cross — they celebrated. A Gay Pilot Reflects on What Travel Means to Queer Folks 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

Yisrael, his wife Judith and her family, and their nine children are not new to urban farming. “When you used to say ‘farmer,’ you wouldn’t have me as the picture.”: Urban farming in Sacramento 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z

Still, Mr. Tsui directed and co-wrote an iconic work of the New Wave, which was defined by vernacular Hong Kong Cantonese slang, gritty urban backdrops and an unblinking look at modern society. Movies: Bringing a Wealth of Cinematic Knowledge to the Screen in 3-D 2011-07-11T13:00:05Z

Though Clarke doesn't write in Welsh, he continued, she is "deeply influenced by the Welsh language and Welsh culture, combining the industrial urban and the rural". Gillian Clarke 'stunned' at winning Queen's gold medal for poetry 2010-12-24T00:00:01Z

Middle-class Victorians took "slum tours" to get a firsthand look at urban squalor — some for philanthropic reasons, others for titillation. London's New 'Dirt' Exhibit Celebrates the Value of Filth 2011-04-12T08:45:00Z

His current single, “On Chill,” is certified gold and spent four weeks atop urban radio, helping propel his newest album, “Wow. . . That’s Crazy,” into the Billboard Top 10. A decade after his debut, Wale is finally feeling comfortable with himself. Mostly. 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

There was something urgent and urban about the Edun show — and it made for a strong meld of Romany freedom and life’s reality. Special Report: Fashion: Addicted to Love 2011-02-13T17:19:03Z

Former city dwellers escaping urban anxieties are surprised to see themselves as activists. Movie Review: ?Windfall,? a Documentary on Wind Turbines, by Laura Israel 2012-02-03T00:49:34Z

The best urban gardens let you step off the grid, just for a moment, and find yourself somewhere else. Noguchi in Suburbia Vs. Noguchi in Nature 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Summon your urban Arnold Palmer by shooting golf balls through a block of skyscrapers at Aroma Spa & Sports, a 150-yard driving range surrounded by acres of green netting. What to Do in Koreatown, Los Angeles 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Kapoor sees that as part of an “invidious” effort to recast urban space as threatening. Perspective | One of the world’s greatest sculptors warns America about the NRA 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

For our guessing game this week, we shift to an urban location. In Transit: Guess Where This is 2011-03-31T16:32:39Z

In fact, NPR’s Eric Deggans recently argued that The Wire is more important now than when it aired, “because so many of its messages about urban failure, policing, and race” are still a reality. White people get “The Wire” all wrong: Its lessons on race and racism must be absorbed 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

Some rural areas don't allow flocks, while many urban areas are starting to, so don't assume anything. The "Queen of the Coop" answers all of your egg-centric questions 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z

“What I found is that, for the most part, they don’t,” says Zachary Neal, associate professor of psychology and global urban studies at Michigan State University. Perspective | A lot of us have been thinking about where we live. Here’s what research into neighborhoods shows. 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

What starts as a story about a kooky urban development project becomes a haunting saga about fraud, exploitation and the toxic myth of the American dream. 7 Podcasts About the Art of the Scam 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

Helsinki’s urban landscape blends Art Nouveau and progressive architecture and progressive, engaging design. Want a charming Nordic city without the corresponding prices? Try Estonia’s Tallinn. 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

This period of adulthood, usually in one’s 30s, when the childbearing decision becomes unavoidable, is a kind of existential rite of passage for many urban professionals. Scared to Be a Parent? 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

However, that urban experience never concealed the fundamentally southern inspiration and shaping of his music. Eddie Burns obituary 2012-12-21T13:35:07Z

Coming from Jersey and the whole suburban thing, you didn’t get that urban grit. | Clarke Peters: Clarke Peters in ‘Red Hook Summer,’ Directed by Spike Lee 2012-07-27T16:31:40Z

Vienna’s urban planning initiative is a good illustration of how gender mainstreaming not only considers how certain goals impact everyone, but how goals actually change when you give everyone consideration. The future isn’t unisex: Reform’s big gender blind spot 2013-12-19T19:38:00Z

Frankly, they look a little like Halloween decorations: billowy, semi-sheer white fabric pieces draped over two of my urban front-yard garden’s raised beds. Urban gardening: Floating row covers protect winter plants

And if the textures and raplike choral poetry and the harrowing urban fatalism ring contemporary, the insights into the arrogance of violence and power apply to both ancient and modern humanity. In eSe Teatro production, ‘Oedipus’ gets an L.A. makeover | Theater review 2012-12-10T22:17:46Z

It’s an understated satire on gentrification, in which multiracial affluence doesn’t provide immunity from the ancient clashes of urban life. On Small Screens at Year’s End: Weird Stuff Worth a Look 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

“This is the same wry, peripatetic series at heart, a vision of urban life as a web of stories connected by wisps of smoke,” Mr. Poniewozik wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Friday: Kathy Bates in ‘Disjointed,’ and ‘The Tick’ Rides Again 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

Boat shoes are a possible alternative, although he's not sure they work in an urban environment unless you wear them with a sense of irony — and confidence. Designer Ingelmo reviews the shoes 2011-05-23T16:38:18Z

Sinclair has been unequivocal in his hatred of the Olympics, and of large-scale urban planning projects in general. Swandown: two men in a pedalo 2012-07-18T17:17:15Z

Shockingly, given that approximately 65% of American households have pets, URI say they have only identified seven other urban shelters across the US able to accommodate domestic violence survivors together with their animals. 'My dog is family': domestic abuse victims and the pets they can't leave 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

We picked the Spanish Court Hotel as our Kingston base: It is centrally located downtown, three blocks away from another of Mr. Bolt’s running picks, the urban Emancipation Park. In Jamaica, Running in Usain Bolt’s Footsteps 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

I’ve camped in urban or otherwise populated settings as diverse as a heavily trafficked college campus quad to building balconies to, most recently, my own apartment building roof. Above the streets, beneath the stars: why you should try urban rooftop camping 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

It was absurd to ask a historian of Tudor England to speak about urban riots and social networks. knew what they wanted from him – and they got it. Has Newsnight lost its way? 2011-08-20T23:06:06Z

Most of the developers are New York firms hoping to repeat the success of urban renewal in SoHo, the Meatpacking district and Brooklyn. Art, luxury brands give Miami districts hip makeover 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

The Mall is really very rich in terms of urban ideas. David Adjaye on Designing a Museum That Speaks a Different Language 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

No previous interest in urban sports is required. TV highlights 15/08/2011 2011-08-14T20:59:00Z

Like a bloodstained “After Hours,” the movie goes on to trail Cherie as she scampers away and seeks refuge in a series of urban sites: police station, apartment, overpass, church, nightclub, bathhouse. ‘Run Sweetheart Run’ Review: Escape in L.A. 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

It all allows him to merge his ecological lifestyle with the restraints of urban space. Enjoying the high life, up on the roof in Tel Aviv 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

Atget, whose life straddled the 19th and 20th centuries, documented France’s shift from a rural economy to an urban one. Geoff Dyer Takes to the Streets With Garry Winogrand 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

He would cheer limitations on the actions of uniformed police officers working inside school buildings and is skeptical of the explosion of single-sex schools in low-income urban neighborhoods. The Power of the Supreme Court Inside America’s Schools 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

As for a way out of those risks, a glint of light down the urban canyons, “If Venice Dies” makes savvy use of the great fabulist Italo Calvino. Venice is just the beginning — the West is sinking into a sea of commerce 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the home is increasingly taken over by forces of nature intruding on the urban landscape. This week's new theatre 2013-04-27T05:00:30Z

Lushly planted containers bring the joy of gardening to the smallest of urban spaces. Container gardening: The rules to know, and the rules to break 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

So is Lynch’s balanced advocacy for both the Fourth Estate’s role in uncovering murky civic affairs, and for go-go urban mavericks who can realize a city’s potential. ‘Truth Like the Sun’ examines bright 1962 dreams 2014-04-30T23:41:12Z

Public sculpture is integral to the larger claim that urban success leads inexorably to individual repression. Perspective | One of the world’s greatest sculptors warns America about the NRA 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

“We all want to escape to the country,” Kors said, speaking of fashionable urban dwellers. Kors keeps it country cozy for fall 2020 at New York Fashion Week 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

These objects were sawed, scraped, pounded and bowed, adding animalistic groans to the general urban clamor in a piece that felt as violent as it was life-affirming. Review: MATA Festival’s Sounds of Play 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The Institute for Fiscal Studies says the cuts tend to hit poor, urban areas like Tower Hamlets hardest, because their spending was higher to begin with. Art world shivers at sale of Henry Moore statue 2013-03-24T11:53:04Z

Hosted by the dancer Vandana Hart, the program investigates traditional and urban dance traditions on a global level. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

The space that remains, though, has been handled with all the sensitivity any urban nostalgist could ask for. El Quijote Tilts Back Toward Its Earlier Glamour 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

As a result, the most memorable photography emerging from the war has been the civilian aspect, urban destruction and the human cost. Capturing a 21st-Century War With 19th-Century Technology 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z

Amid great clouds of dust, giant bulldozers perpetually gnaw at the ground as the former Yugoslav republic undergoes one of 's biggest urban renewal schemes. Alexander the Great or a warrior on a horse? 2011-08-14T13:50:56Z

"Disney is a classic urban entertainment brand," said the city's mayor, Han Zheng. Shanghai begins building long-sought Disney park 2011-04-08T10:37:09Z

Now, with an ambitious and entirely outdoor exhibition of sculpture by Mark di Suvero, Governors Island is one step closer to becoming a proper urban park. Art Review: Soaring Nods to Industry, Camping on an Island for the Summer 2011-06-02T21:43:30Z

Slinkachu, meanwhile, toys with scale to play on ideas of loneliness and anonymity, especially in urban environments. Masters of miniature 2011-02-27T00:04:03Z

Survival rates were lower for urban crows than rural ones, but cholesterol wasn’t the culprit, the study says. Fast food contributing to higher cholesterol in urban crows, study says 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

The designers’ fixation with tribal inspirations went to two interesting extremes: an urban ethnic graffiti jacket in DayGlo colors, and fringed teepee dresses. Special Report: Fashion: Ready for the Red Carpet 2011-01-27T18:36:35Z

It used to be notorious as one of the filthiest waterways in America, a poster child for urban decline and environmental ruin. When the Bronx Was a Forest: Stroll Through the Centuries 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

Nam’s “Netted” is inspired by urban patterns yet ventures into abstraction. In the galleries: Four curators share one spotlight 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

To save her from urban pollution, she is sent to the country to live with her eccentric, beautiful Aunt Lily and her big, gruff Uncle Tancredo. Music Review: A Fairy-Tale Anniversary 2011-06-12T22:15:28Z

So they decided pool their expertise to design a sketch show for a smart, urban, platform-agnostic audience — and they did so with a shared sense of now-or-never urgency. The Baronesses Are Coming! And Filling a Comedy Gender Gap 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

While this reaction is an understandable one, why settle for poetic justice in lieu of the real thing, especially when most of those inhabitants remember the bad old days of disinvestment and urban decay? Enough with the hipster-bashing 2013-05-12T14:00:00Z

Interestingly enough, it’s the gruesome horror movie made by a man that portrays those subjects with the most ironic distance and the least desire to titillate, not the gritty urban drama made by a woman. Bad girls, big trouble: The self-destructive young woman as feminist archetype 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Stella was one of the first American painters to focus on urban, industrial themes and his renderings of the bridge in the first half of the 20th century became hallmarks of his career. An Urban Painter’s Fantastic Floral Visions 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

His fashion quest, besides making a buck, is to elevate a side of black urban culture that goes beyond the baggy jeans and sneakers that still define hip-hop. Up Close: The Bearded Dandy of Brooklyn 2011-01-05T01:17:06Z

But this is more about our relationship with urban foxes – more specifically middle-class north London's relationship with them. TV Review: Who Do You Think You Are? Brooke Shields and Urban Fox Attack 2010-07-05T05:45:00Z

I wanted to see signing used in an urban manner. My ‘Face Is My Voice’: A Deaf Dancer Lands Her Dream Role 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

This city's divestment from community-scale composting also has a ripple effect on the broader urban ecosystem: the gardeners, urban farmers, and waste haulers that depend on these sites. As food scrap collection peaks, New York community compost sites face evictions 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

Solomon's attempts to build community are foiled by encroaching urban development. Omar Musa brings Australian hip-hop, poetry and subculture to the US in 'Here Come the Dogs' 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

“Closed” in that female customers were not admitted, which opened the door for a new kind of non-domestic, urban job opportunity for unmarried working-class women. On paying for it: Ten cents a dance (adjusted for inflation) 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

It was also the airiest, least urban setting of our stops. A Miniature-Golf Odyssey (Obstacles Included) 2010-09-02T21:19:00Z

Johnson’s father, George Cumberledge, put the property in preservation status after his wife died in 2010, to prevent the farm from falling prey to urban development. Can Maryland produce an iconic red wine? One maker is determined to find out. 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

For Gucci, this seems a natural look — back to its equestrian style of the early years, before Tom Ford made the image more urban and interior. Charlotte Casiraghi Models for Gucci 2012-03-06T19:20:07Z

"Bright lights, fast city ... urban athleticism meets uptown polish," he further explained in his notes. Storm-inspired `chic survival' at Michael Kors 2013-02-13T22:01:05Z

She was the cute girl next door with a little urban flair who could teach you how to cook dinner in half an hour. Beyond TV and EVOO: Rachael Ray Looks for Her Next Act 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

It was filmed there, and its urban apartments and diverse subplots were truer to a modern metropolis. Texas TV: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

The opera is staged in an abstract-looking urban park, with a floor and a back panel depicting trees, sky and mossy ground. Music Review: City Opera?s ?Cos? Fan Tutte? at Gerald W. Lynch Theater 2012-03-19T22:28:54Z

Kellee Edwards, a licensed pilot and adventure travel TV host, says since the pandemic started, her waterproof Yeti backpack went from tropical adventure bag to urban grocery tote. In pandemic, travel pros repurpose their gear to entertain kids, haul groceries and stay comfy 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Aesthetics aside, the bike lanes are about urban livability and about encouraging the sort of street culture which, as Jacobs reminded us, a healthy and democratic city depends on. Critic?s Notebook: A Bike-Lane Perch for the Urban Show 2011-11-07T19:50:40Z

Partly it’s a critic’s investigation into the lives and work of certain visual artists whose productions speak to the author’s heartsick sense of urban solitude. Review: ‘The Lonely City,’ a Personal Study of Urban Isolation 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

There are the female victims, and the graphic violence as well as the grittiness of the urban nighttime environment. "Holy Spider" examines a "serial killer society," in which Iranian sex workers are targeted 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

And how far this cool $19 billion will go is anybody’s guess — it’s impossible to predict whether today’s sentient cities will be responsive to tomorrow’s unforeseen urban problems. Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun 2012-05-19T13:00:00Z

To them, Hot 97 seems to have succumbed to the homogenization of urban radio. Hot 97, a Hip-Hop Pioneer on Radio, Reaches a Crossroads 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

The show then leaps to the 1980s, after he had settled in New York, picked up assemblage as his primary medium, and based it on materials grounded in black urban life. David Hammons Is Still Messing With What Art Means 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

A casual urban portrait of Los Angeles, photographed mostly but not exclusively in and around Compton, the two videos play on a synchronized loop. Bursts of intensity within Kahlil Joseph's quotidian landscape at MOCA 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z

The central goal of the new master plan, its main urban and civic idea, is to extend and refine this evolution, ultimately turning the station into a transportation hub in the round. Metro's Union Station master plan a significant shift 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Or, if you prefer a combination of urban culture, an abundance of beaches, and dramatic mountains, consider Rio de Janeiro. Q&A: Europe or Rio for a Wedding Anniversary? 2010-06-22T17:44:00Z

The progress of these films charts growing despair with American urban life, but it always stops well short of detached cynicism. Sidney Lumet, giant of American cinema, dies at 86 2011-04-09T23:07:05Z

My husband diagnosed the problem as an urban one. Cobblestones? Check. Castles? Check. Budget? Check. Why Romania Is Worth the Trip. 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

Tired of fighting a long-in-the-works plan to sell a small parcel for residential and retail use, proponents of urban farming finally moved in, planted seeds and refused to leave. ‘Occupy the Farm,’ a Documentary by Todd Darling 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

But the Project for Public Spaces, a nonprofit organization of urban planners, voted the building into its “hall of shame.” Gerhard Kallmann, Architect, Dies at 97 2012-06-25T00:06:38Z

Yet a complete, physically detailed urban subculture is summoned through Mr. Owen’s words and Ms. Melville’s splenetic delivery of them. Review: A Mythic Force Rages in the Welsh ‘Iphigenia in Splott’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

The MoMA show presents 33 of Kingelez’s creations, including single buildings, town squares and mad little urban centers, some drawing on Kinshasa’s grand boulevards and buildings in a Belgian Art Deco style. Fantastical Cityscapes of Cardboard and Glue at MoMA 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

My work is both urban and plays on the industrial, yet is deeply subjective, intellectual and emotional. 11 Women on Phoebe Philo’s Céline Era 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

In the meantime, for most of the British film industry, investing in urban film will remain as terrifying as a hoodie-clad youth in an underpass. The lighter side of youth crime: urban film spoofs 2011-03-10T22:29:00Z

The stories celebrate blood, the love of family and the tight-knit community feelings that characterise South African kraals, rural counties, small Ohio towns, coastal Greenland settlements, Albuquerque vecinos, urban blocks and residents of Appalachian hollows. Waiting for the Evening News: Stories of the Deep South by Tim Gautreaux | Book review 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z

It forces you to change your appearance and replace your values; you take on an urban personality, which has no colour or taste to it... Dictator-lit: Gaddafi's surreal gibberish 2010-03-24T12:46:00Z

While the Markthalle Neun definitely caters to a hip urban crowd, it also serves as a community hub and meeting place for everyone from farmers to protesters. In Berlin, a Market Focuses on Food and Community 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

"It's just become this silly urban legend that I just have to laugh at," the comedian added. Alanis Morissette song about Dave Coulier? He says Cut. It. Out. 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Although he’s often construed as a cheeky urban ironist, much of Mr. Byrne’s music, in the Pop Art tradition of Richard Hamilton or Andy Warhol, arises from an ingenuous fascination with mundane objects. Inside David Byrne’s Cheerful Dystopia 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The appointment signals the start of the Menil’s master plan for its urban “neighborhood of art,” an enclave of museum buildings, green spaces, and bungalows. ArtsBeat: A Start for a ‘Neighborhood of Art’ in Houston 2013-06-12T21:00:57Z

While on the surface, the topics seemed bland or scattered, Wilson ended up creating a shockingly vulnerable meditation on the inherent loneliness of urban living through the inventive use of seemingly mundane footage. No happy trees here – HBO's "Painting With John" is a dark and dreamy contemplation of artistry 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

Among several proposed solutions for reducing its ill effects is a plug-in vehicle called the MIT CityCar, designed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and intended for short-term urban use. Art Review: Thinking Green ? Design Triennial at Cooper-Hewitt 2010-05-13T21:45:00Z

The mutual disdain between urban cores and rural heartlands. Perspective | Was ‘Game of Thrones’ supposed to mean anything? Only if you wanted it to. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

But “Jack Engle” reminds us, through contrast, of what he achieved elsewhere: the invention of a hopeful, vibrant poetry of urban coexistence. The Claustrophobic Paranoia of Walt Whitman’s Lost Novel 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Having lived in the same corner of the city for all her 35 years, how could Leah fall for this regular urban trick? John Mullan on NW – Guardian book club 2013-07-27T07:00:03Z

A projection on the backdrop transformed the runway into a cyber street, reflecting the urban spirit of the collection, shown for women with sturdy high heels rather than the predictable sneakers. Special Report: Fashion: Victoria Beckham, Alexander Wang and Lacoste bring color and a sense of digital exploration to New York Fashion Week 2011-09-11T17:37:04Z

Impeccably designed and lighted by Jan Versweyveld, “Song” takes place in what appears to be an empty urban apartment, with a small foyer and a single vast room with views of the street. London Theater Journal: Nowhere Man 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

Increased immigration has also helped urban neighborhoods become less segregated than they used to be. Immigrants will save us 2012-08-04T16:00:00Z

But he insisted the city’s goal was not to become a theme park of urban decay. Chicago News Cooperative: Gary Lures Hollywood With a Bounty of Decay 2011-08-21T05:33:02Z

Or with the new Pier Six park, a model of postindustrial urban redesign, as your front yard? Adventures in Upscale Brooklyn 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Finding your stuff is almost a relief, because it plays on these urban legends, but there is something very original about them as well. Interview with Drew Daywalt: Horror's great Internet age begins 2011-04-14T14:14:00Z

Lowry, a popular chronicler of working-class urban life. AP Exclusive: Art owned by TS Eliot's wife on sale 2013-05-31T01:02:08Z

As part of the assignment, they are tackling questions of urban renewal and affordable housing — an issue that is as hot a button in Mexico City as it is in Los Angeles. As Trump aims to build a wall, Los Angeles architecture school SCI-Arc builds bridges to Mexico 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

“The Nut Job” is a Canadian-South Korean animated feature set in the American 1950s urban world of film noir. Movie Review: In ‘The Nut Job,’ a Surly Squirrel Plans a Heist 2014-01-17T00:05:05Z

Getting into the city had its own set of complications, the usual urban ones — heavy traffic, potholes and debris on the roads. In Transit Blog: Headed East, More Hill Than Dale 2011-10-06T16:27:51Z

About 7% of people living outside urban areas were exposed to detrimental noise, nearly all of those by road traffic. One in five Europeans exposed to harmful noise pollution – study 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Wolitzer captures with almost unerring accuracy both the rhythms of conversation and the customs of urban life among this upwardly aspiring, artistically inclined collection of Manhattanites. Review: Wolitzer novel charts lives of 6 teens 2013-04-08T17:21:10Z

At the other end of the spectrum are 19th-century paintings of urban beauties who had a comparably theatrical flair for cosmetics. Masterpieces of Japanese Art at the Met 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

This ambivalence kept him from leaping headlong into the movement, but it also mirrored the urban proletariat’s love-hate relationship with a laissez-faire capitalism that rewards and celebrates those who obtain wealth by any means necessary. The Fires That Forged Iceberg Slim 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Like other urban creatures, I found the fondas I liked the best. The enduring comfort of comida corrida 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

As a group, these images are invaluable contributions to American urban visual history, but also to art history. He Captured a Clandestine Gay Culture Amid the Derelict Piers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

The city's urban culture gulch is on the brink of opening a major new art museum — L.A.'s seventh — as the Broad finishes preparations for its Sept. 20 debut downtown. An early look in the Broad museum reveals a show that doesn't quite gel 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

One objective for the Madrids in New York is to pave the way for more opportunities for hip-hop and urban dancers to apply their skills in long-form, long-running projects. Can a Hip-Hop Dance Show Settle In Off Broadway? 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Nevertheless, for better or worse, temporary public art displays pop up all over the city during the warm seasons in hopes of adding beauty and zest to the urban fabric. Art Review: Work by Niki de Saint Phalle and Bruce High Quality Foundation 2012-08-23T14:00:00Z

The firm’s output is prodigious and diverse, ranging from vest-pocket urban parcels to rural expanses. Rooms With a View 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Kyle Abraham is best known for his incorporation of street dance and evocations of black urban life. Martha Graham Dance Tackles New Versions of ‘Lamentation’ 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Troy Conrad Therrien will join the Guggenheim as curator, architecture and digital initiatives, where he will be tasked with further developing the museum’s engagement with architecture, urban studies, and digital media. Guggenheim Appoints Troy Conrad Therrien as Curator, Architecture and Digital Initiatives 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

The historically working class Democratic Party is now increasingly urban and college educated. The President’s Backup Band 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Edward Hopper spent nearly 60 years living in and documenting everyday life in New York City as the urban landscape grew and changed. At Museums and Auctions, Private Treasures Are Unveiled 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

Detroit has everything, from the perfect location, tech resoucres, and practically a clean slate for a company to completely revamp an urban environment. In Energized Detroit, Savoring an Architectural Legacy 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

In these shows, which center on working-class and middle-class urban women, divorce often constitutes a financial and social injury that a heroine or sidekick weathers with heart and pluck. Stand by Your Man? On TV, as in Life, There Are Alternatives 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

It is an urban cruiser not meant to achieve great speed. Browsing: Scouting Report 2010-10-06T19:55:00Z

Ms. Balmori earned a doctorate in urban history at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1973 before she and her husband settled on the East Coast. Diana Balmori, visionary landscape designer, dies at 84 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

“In the midst of urban chaos, people crave the comfort of tradition and are beginning to shun high-tech innovation” Mr. Auclert said. From Travel to Fashion, Wood Goes Exotic 2012-11-21T15:30:24Z

What follows is not a cut-and-dried urban horror story. Review: In ‘Kicks,’ the Promise (and Perils) of Those Air Jordans 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Many of us live in older urban properties where big trees sit cheek by jowl with homes, cars and with us. Considering trimming or getting rid of an old tree? Not so fast. 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z

It’s meant to be a “new kind of urban equipment,” Aguiar says. Porto, Portugal, Welcomes Art Installation of New Heights 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Sometimes they talk about moving to Bangkok, but the men in particular resist the compromises that urban life would bring. | 'Agrarian Utopia': A Rural Struggle for Subsistence, Rooted in Dignity 2011-06-09T22:28:00Z

For the sequel, Mr. DeMonaco has opened up the story narratively and spatially, setting the action in a series of urban environs rather than inside the confines of one locked-down archetypal suburban house. ‘The Purge: Anarchy’ With Zach Gilford 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

A couple of scenes are shot on stage at Stratford, the rest is filmed on location – a gritty, grimy, urban location. TV review: Julius Caesar 2012-06-24T21:30:01Z

One show is rural, one is urban; one earnest, one ironic. Willie Robertson Vs. Don Draper, State of the Union Battle of the TV Symbols 2014-01-29T12:38:51Z

“It was on pop, it was on crossover, it was on urban,” he said. Don’t Ask Shaggy to Touch the Mic at a Wedding 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

The Chinatown buses were frequently hailed as a smart new transit model and an example of urban ingenuity. When libertarianism fails 2012-06-09T16:00:00Z

Fleeing a meditation retreat in a deer park hosted by her New Age masseuse, Sonja realizes that paid touch and urban simulacra of wilderness have worn thin. Cold Cases: Three Scandinavian Novels Explore Chilling Emotional Territory 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

But Kristen Jeffers, the founder of the Black Urbanist, a media organization whose stated mission is to look at urban planning through a Black, queer and feminist lens, said some suburbs still perpetuate exclusionary practices. America’s Next Great Restaurants Are in the Suburbs. But Can They Thrive There? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

But she has found that the market has changed, particularly in urban areas. Is a bathtub a necessity or a luxury? For some, the answer could be changing. 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Along the way, he fights superpowered villains called “Bang Babies” as well as the usual threats faced by a Black teen in an urban neighborhood: racism, bullying, gang violence and more. From ‘Proud Family’ to ‘The Boondocks’: 11 Black Animated Series 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z

But the steady devaluation of the renminbi, or yuan, resulted in China’s urban centers moving down the ranking by between five and 16 places each, it said. Of bread and wine: the world's most expensive cities 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

If “Stand and Deliver” struck many as a hard-hitting look at life in the urban ghetto, “Spare Parts” seems like a Disney after-school special by comparison. ‘Spare Parts’: Tale of robot-building teens doesn’t quite deliver 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

"If the urban landscape was a jungle, every single till would be obsessively documented by everyone with a sense of curiosity. But these things become detached from what it's OK to have curiosity about." From stationery fiends to hand dryer enthusiasts… who are you calling boring? 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z

Mainly in browns and faded black, with burnt orange and violet, the motifs had a rough quality that suited Ms. Karan’s urban aesthetic. | Fashion Review: Spring?s Colorful Runways - Review - NY Fashion Week 2011-09-13T22:30:37Z

As the premise hints the story eventually travels from Britain to Egypt, of which Diab makes a visual feast in its depictions of bustling urban areas and silken desert landscapes surrounding the pyramids. With the sleepy "Moon Knight," come for the MCU, but stay for Oscar Isaac's dodgy cockney accent 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

Dan Tague, a New Orleans artist known for folding dollar bills to invent new national mottoes, also seems to be jumbling urban scenes. In the galleries: Photos that take twists and turns at Civilian Art Projects 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

About that: She and her team reject labels like “urban” and “gossip site” that Ms. Brand said often relegates sites like The Jasmine Brand to “second-class” status. How to Build a Media Company 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

They are implementing well-established and generally progressive urban design principles to get there. In new Silver Line stations, an emphasis on the functional

Photograph: David Levene In the 1960s, local authorities and urban improvers looked at Victorian terraces and declared them slums. Robin Hood Gardens: You're making a big mistake... 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

To most in the city, Laoshan is no longer a physical place but a symbol of everything that is not urban. Explorer: Near Qingdao, Hiking a Magical Mountain 2013-08-21T21:04:17Z

Together, they navigate the professional and personal challenges of late-20s urban life. Issa Rae: 'So much of the media presents blackness as fierce and flawless. I’m not' 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z

At least four films were made of “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” one of them by Cecil B. DeMille, and each showcases mountain people as illiterate, violent and in need of an urban savior. Deliver me from “Deliverance”: Finally, a Hollywood movie gets Appalachian people right 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

Allen’s Judaism isn’t intellectual and it isn’t historical; it’s personal, rooted in the specific milieu of his upbringing, the American urban cluster of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, and he imbues Bobby with its peculiar contradictions. Youthful Illusions in Woody Allen’s “Café Society” 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Several factors — maximum speed limit of 50 mph, ban on commercial traffic, limited access to urban centers — deter most motorists. In biking the Natchez Trace, she was traveling through Southern history 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

Hotels Warm Up With Local Accents While sleek minimalism set the tone for urban boutique hotels in the 1990s, rustic elements are warming up the newest crop of small hotels. Check In: Hotels Warm Up With Local Accents 2013-05-17T18:49:34Z

Mr. Zorn’s work is inspired by Baudelaire and captures some of the ephemeral beauty set against the frenetic backdrop of urban modernity that marks the work of that poet. International Contemporary Ensemble Plays at the Armory 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Success for Shank and Adulthood meant more urban films going into production, and more variety in the kinds of films getting made. The lighter side of youth crime: urban film spoofs 2011-03-10T22:29:00Z

Sultan’s paintings aren’t explicitly political, and he took his subjects mainly from newspaper photographs of accidents, fires, chemical spills and other urban distress. Review | Disaster was his message, but then catastrophes became commonplace 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

A music component will also explore urban life and will feature African and African American works. Works from Cosby art collection to be shown at National Museum of African Art

One is harshly bright and mapped across open plains, the other is cloaked in shadow and hustles down dark urban alleyways. New this week: Willie Nelson, Nick race special, ‘Hamilton’ 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

Such images show the influence of American culture, Dubin said, and how “people would move between categories with great ease, with no hard divide between traditional and modern, rural and urban.” Lost and Found Photos from a South African Portrait Studio 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

These structures were conceived as radical experiments in mass production for an increasingly dense and urban postwar society. Architecture Review: One Madison Park Hints at a Better Design Future 2010-06-28T22:33:00Z

Still, a soundtrack with film dialogue cut into the show music put the Bottega collection up against an urban backdrop. On the Runway Blog: Dame Patrol in Milan 2012-09-22T11:34:40Z

More important, however, is a surprising insensitivity to the way bodies flow through space, something that is as fundamental to architecture and urban planning as to ballet and theater. Architecture Review: The Greening of Lincoln Center 2010-05-20T22:17:00Z

Always there is Ms. Legetic’s fleet of photographers: urban photojournalists with a knack for making even the most inebriated look attractive, who put photos online nearly immediately. Svetlana Legetic, Washington Night Life Promoter, Moving to New York 2012-08-17T20:45:23Z

Drawing inspiration from underground videos and urban legends, Mr. Korine builds an increasingly troubling atmosphere of decay and deviance. | 'Trash Humpers': Harmony Korine?s Geriatric Delinquents 2010-05-07T00:19:00Z

Then, as Americans rediscovered both their palates and urban living in the new millennium, the craft-cocktail revival reintroduced many of the classic drinks of the nineteenth century. How T.G.I. Friday’s Helped Invent the Singles Bar   2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Shot through with looping rhetorical jokes and sight gags that play on the absurdities of the urban environment, the film seeks answers for thorny moral questions in the startling clarity only afforded by dreams. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Now more than ever there's a need for making theatre accessible to as wide a group of people as possible outside urban conurbations. Theatres make drama out of a crisis 2013-10-21T08:32:20Z

The characters lie uneasily between old and new, live in rural and urban areas and struggle to deal with the unpleasant surprises of independence. Authors choose their favourite short stories 2012-12-21T22:55:14Z

The first was selected to highlight their own urban youth culture and the second to point to global issues. Prince William and Catherine to visit Skid Row 2011-07-05T22:46:04Z

Many thought the charismatic and visionary rancher would serve in Congress one day, but he was too engulfed by an uphill battle with urban sprawl from Colorado Springs and Pueblo, sandwiching his ranch. 'Hanna Ranch' documents the battles of an 'eco-cowboy' 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Who would have guessed that strategic urban planning could make for gripping historical fiction? Painting a vibrant and lush portrait of the 16th-century Ottoman empire 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

I'm a New Yorker, and so many of my clients really are urban people all around the planet, but we all crave unplugging. A Minute With: Fashion's Michael Kors on 'staying on the street' 2014-02-20T00:59:23Z

But these materials are not abundantly available in urban areas. Nigeria’s street food adds to the plastic problem — green leaves offer a solution 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

In his ability to create harmonious wholes out of urban fragments, he is the contemporary heir to Eugène Atget, who memorialized Paris in the early 20th century. Filmmaker Joel Coen Puts His Spin on the Photos of Lee Friedlander 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

The significance of the April 20 date is unclear and shrouded in urban legend. Pastors reach out on pot-lover’s highest holiday — 420 2014-04-18T23:11:24Z

In modern times, as in the Renaissance, Italy's urban experience is diverse. What can we learn from Italy's urban utopias? 2011-08-22T11:08:13Z

The restaurants selected by the Kids Food Reboot may not be as pricey, but because they attract an upscale, urban clientele, they illustrate one of the program’s flaws. Advocates want restaurants to stop catering to young diners with kids’ menus

But it turned out that the Valdres has scores of homesteads that cater to urban Norwegians and cultural tourists who, like us, arrive to search for family connections. A U.S. traveler’s urge to see Norway is all in his genes 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

My time with the kid – and, later, kids – meant that we could live in urban Philadelphia on a single salary that qualified us for the “low-income family discount” at the YMCA. Stay-at-home dad no more 2012-06-21T21:50:00Z

In an infrastructure decision that would shatter any Jane Jacobs fan, urban planners ran a particular stretch of freeway above and through the lagoon of Hollenbeck Park. Review: Mean Streets ‘Underneath the Freeways of Los Angeles’ 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

The jungle fantasia of “Tropical Malady” was followed by the disjointed quasicomedy of “Syndromes and a Century,” which turned an urban corporate landscape of office work and consumption into something like science fiction. | 'Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives': A Farewell to This Life, and All Its Ghosts 2011-03-01T22:56:29Z

For some urban homeowners, fire pits evoke a feeling of California in the 1970s, bonfires on beaches and the roasting of s’mores. Noted: In Brooklyn Fire Pits Are All the Rage 2013-12-12T00:52:57Z

The rural populists forged alliances with urban workers and middle-class progressives. A perfectly timed book on populism 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Reinforcing the secondhand hard-boiled atmosphere are the Pittsburgh locations, all industrial blight and urban debris, and a foreboding synthesizer-heavy soundtrack. Television Review: ‘Those Who Kill’ Joins ‘Bates Hotel’ on Monday Nights 2014-03-02T23:20:45Z

In crowded off-kilter pictures that seemed haphazard and badly composed to critics at the time, he captured urban pedestrian traffic, people and animals at zoos and political demonstrations and altercations. Urban Hurly-Burly of a Bumptious Era 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z

The title track, for example, is a beautiful piece of music: twitchy, tense, but captivatingly melodic and brilliantly arranged, it essays a new form of intelligent but never arid, electronic urban soul. New band of the day ? No 769: James Blake 2010-04-20T15:20:00Z

Scrimp on urban accommodations if you’re unlikely to spend a lot of time in the room. 12 Ways to Save on Family Travel 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

It's worth remembering that even though these cities rank well against other large urban areas, that doesn't mean starting a career there will be easy. America's Best Cities For Young Professionals 2010-06-17T23:00:00Z

Now she’s written a memoir, “The Language of Kindness,” which chronicles her 20 years with Britain’s National Health Service while introducing readers to the world of a big urban hospital. Christie Watson Is a Lovely Writer — and, Judging From This Book, a Gifted Nurse 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

And I agree with the curators, who include here a whole section on the urbanism of Gehry's projects, that his firm is underrated in its ability to read and respond to civic and urban context. Comprehensive 'Gehry' retrospective in Paris draws sociological blank 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

“Automania,” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from July 4 to Jan. 2, looks at the impact of cars on everything from urban planning and pollution to psychology and art. Perspective | Dawoud Bey, Jasper Johns and ‘Automania’ are among the many compelling reasons to visit museums this summer 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

The 1968 Kerner Commission report on the urban upheavals of the ’60s became an instant best seller that urged wholesale structural changes in policing, social welfare policies, employment, health care and more. Recasting ‘Riots’ as Black Rebellions 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

While the book takes a chronological approach to its topic, the exhibit is organized by genre: urban landscapes, mountain scenes, still lifes, portraits, nudes and some beautiful dance photography. 'Shadows of a Fleeting World' reveals a hidden chapter in Seattle's cultural history 2011-03-12T02:27:00Z

This urban eyecatcher acts, Bennetts says, as "an anchor, mooring a fleet of theatrical buildings". Royal Shakespeare Theatre: All's well ? 2010-11-23T18:43:00Z

McMahon writes gritty, ultra-realistic horror – a welcome antidote to the effete horror romance currently flooding the market – about the angst of urban existence in the 21st century. Science fiction roundup – reviews 2012-06-01T21:53:01Z

It’s home to the largest urban zoological garden in America, a park system nearly 10 times the size of Manhattan’s Central Park — and the city’s last remaining patch of old growth forest. When the Bronx Was a Forest: Stroll Through the Centuries 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

“Plague is primarily an urban phenomenon,” says Keller. Of course the rich are getting tested first. The wealthy always do better during a pandemic. 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

The most pervasive forms of local advertising often feel like this—like nursery rhymes or urban legends, or something implanted in your most tender consciousness by a social version of natural law. Stepping Into the Uncanny, Unsettling World of Shen Yun 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

Somehow, the narrow cobblestoned streets that urban planners couldn’t wait to get rid of have lived on in fiction, accommodating many generations of authorial foot traffic. Review | Niall Leonard is E.L. James’s husband, but his new novel shows he’s more than a plus-one 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

In many ways, Detroit seems ideal for such an urban agricultural revolution: What better way to activate those 40 square miles of vacant lots than to turn them into farmland? Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

But it’s clear his passion is with urban kids in troubled neighborhoods. Few minorities visit Sequoia National Forest or the Sawtooth Wilderness. This man wants to change that. 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

We talk about populations moving because of war and conflict; we talk about gentrification, about urban renewal, all of these have a history. Paintings that Demolish the Myths of What a Home Should Be 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

For an urban space, consider a vertical herb garden — they're equal parts practical and pretty. Got a wall? Turn it into a vertical garden 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z

That open but directed urban wandering formed the template for his career. How Jonathan Gold Stretched Food Criticism to Encompass Everything 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

I like the way its quaint humility is juxtaposed with its difficult, and ambitious, mission to care for the physical needs of the urban poor. This Week in Fiction: Alice McDermott 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

On a January afternoon, I ambled past the Asian grocers and halal butchers of the Belleville neighborhood in Paris when a gigantic work of urban art on the side of a building flashed into view. Haute Hostels Put to the Test in Europe 2013-04-26T16:24:14Z

Mr. Belt got the idea for “Glassphemy!” when he participated in a panel about urban renewal in Philadelphia. Eco-Friendly Aggression at David Belt?s Glassphemy! 2010-05-11T22:43:00Z

When I told Mark Buscaino, executive director of urban forestation group Casey Trees, that I was feeling a rant brewing against mulch mania, there was a pause at the other end of the line. Of course this gardener is ‘getting ready for spring.’ He never stopped. 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

He takes us on a short walk to an ancient urban olive oil factory, or frantoio. Italy’s overlooked ‘heel’ has a wealth of food, wine and unique architecture 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

“Sang” is also a rebellion against the striving of contemporary urban China, no matter the cost or hopes of achieving a goal. For Chinese millennials, despondency has a brand name 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

Williams also read histories of Johannesburg's townships, discovering an obsession urban South African criminals in the 1950s developed for the 1948 Hollywood gangster movie "The Street with No Name." Nelson Mandela opera comes to Johannesburg 2011-08-12T17:56:09Z

They preceded from a bedrock belief that good design and humane urban planning are basic rights, not privileges for the rich. New York Has a Public Housing Problem. Does London Have an Answer? 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

The character James Heller from Prototype 2: ‘a black male hero who isn’t an aspiring criminal or a slogan-quoting urban stereotype’. Diversity challenge for developers 2013-04-13T23:05:15Z

The play tackles gentrification, race and class divisions, urban power structures, McCarthyism, community identity and the search for home, among other issues. Culture Clash adds more bite in 'Chavez Ravine: An L.A. Revival' 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Although the windows don’t open — Washington’s environment is too extreme, its air too full of pollen, its urban landscape too noisy — the quiet interior climate system uses filtered outside air. City planners are increasingly aware of health benefits of clean, living landscapes

We’ve also invited architects to design large-scale public installations that respond to key urban issues in downtown Denver. | The Biennial of the Americas Turns Denver Into a Giant Art Fair 2013-07-15T16:37:10Z

Tricked by outdoor lighting, urban trees stay green longer than their rural counterparts. A Manifesto for Loving the Darkness, and Not Metaphorically 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

It’s also an urban winery — Mr. Phelps, and often his guests, crush grapes and monitor aging barrels of wine in the parking garage. Hotel Review: The WineBox Valparaíso, Chile 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z

The traffic did not disappear because someone found a miraculous solution to our urban problems, but because people are afraid. After Tunisia: Joumana Haddad on Lebanon 2011-01-28T13:00:05Z

“There is no urban planning whatsoever but it’s undergoing a rapid transformation with an infectious and inspiring energy.” IHT Luxury Conference: Pedro Louren?o on S?o Paulo, His Home Town 2011-11-09T12:21:19Z

The typical black-membrane urban roof cooks in the sun, reaching 120 degrees or more. Green roofs are no easy feat, but the list of viable plants is growing 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

Nearby at the Richard D. Baron ’64 Art Gallery, Chinese artist Cui Jie’s futuristic urban scenes and sculptures, some of which she makes with a 3-D printer, will be on view. With New Triennial, Cleveland Hopes to Become the Next Venice 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

High on bluffs above the ocean is Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve, a true wilderness in the middle of urban SoCal. Getting to know San Diego’s lovable beaches 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

In Singapore, a group from MIT is developing a website that will show real-time movements of in-demand urban amenities, like cabs during rush hour. Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun 2012-05-19T13:00:00Z

The exhibition will also show how Lowry, a rent collector with the same firm from 1916 until his retirement in 1952, recorded the "grimness and melancholia of urban life", said Clark. Tate exhibition to pay homage to LS Lowry 2013-01-15T19:16:15Z

For better or worse, he was a key influence in two major urban trends of the past few decades: theme parks and shopping malls. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-06-08T17:15:49Z

As I was going blind, my dating life proceeded as it does for many urban 20- and 30-year-olds, with a lot of falling in love that sometimes resulted in shacking up. After Losing My Sight, Struggling to Be Seen 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

It's clear large parts of this urban area do not support residents' health and well-being by providing good access to healthy food choices. Are you living in a food desert? 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

“At ground level this ‘urban room’ embraces the city,” Mr. Foster said in a statement. ArtsBeat: Norman Foster to Design Comcast Tower in Philadelphia 2014-01-15T19:15:52Z

PBR now stages events at arenas in urban centers like New York City, Chicago and Seattle and in countries including Australia, Brazil and Mexico. Why Hollywood Is Bullish on Bull Riding 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

So, the bank walks away, the house becomes worthless, abandoned, a probable site for arson, making all the homes around it lose value, more clichés of urban blight scarring the landscape. Detroit: A city in foreclosure 2013-02-14T21:06:00Z

The book climaxes with an exhilarating exploration of the City of London, which reluctantly acknowledges that its profit-graph spikes and plunges are probably modern Britain's best piece of large-scale urban design. A New Kind of Bleak by Owen Hatherley – review 2012-07-06T07:00:01Z

The general arc of the way society works hasn't changed in terms of racism, class bias, oppression, happiness, joy, displacement, urban decay and urban renewal for decades. Lupe Fiasco: 'I'm afraid Chicago is dying' 2012-10-03T19:18:00Z

But as it zigzags somewhat haphazardly, Ms. Lee’s exploration of the ills of urban poverty takes too much time to clarify the relationships among its characters. Critic’s Notebook: Varied New Works at 38th Annual Humana Festival 2014-04-02T18:26:14Z

With an urban park in a diverse neighborhood, she is partway there. This Way to Chloë Bass’s Outdoor Art Show 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

Writers like Jack Kerouac, artists such as Jackson Pollock, and urban activists like Jane Jacobs were all emboldened by the area’s heady way of life. Check Out Ralph Lauren Home’s West Village Collection 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

"But with Wagner, the danger became specifically associated with modern music and modern urban lifestyles in diagnosing the fashionable disease of the time, neurasthenia." A disease called Richard? Wagner as mental health menace 2013-05-22T10:54:15Z

For Mr. Stevens, “Round-Up” is the companion piece and inverse to a previous multimedia commission by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, “BQE”; rural instead of urban, West Coast instead of East Coast. Sufjan Stevens Brings the Rodeo to BAM 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

They are as young as 17 and as old as 70, urban professors as well as illiterate farmers. Toronto Suddenly Has a New Craving: Syrian Food 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

New York has some of the best universities in the country, though urban campuses sprawled across apartment buildings just do not seem to have that collegiate feel. 2010-02-06T03:34:00Z

“Today is about beginning a long discussion, first about urban manufacturing in general, then about garment manufacturing in particular,” Ms. Brewer said. A Debate Over the Home of New York’s Fashion Industry 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

In the 1970s the redevelopment of the City of London led to an upsurge in archaeological excavations, and the museum's urban archaeology unit, as it then was, was created to respond to this need. Geoff Egan obituary 2011-02-09T18:17:57Z

Much of the civil unrest took the form of nationwide urban riots and was clearly the result of racial tensions, frustrations, and anger at oppressive living conditions and the endemic hopelessness of inner-city life. Was James Earl Ray innocent? 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z

That gritty, realistic snapshot of urban crime was a showcase for this Queens duo’s masterful, unrelenting rhymes. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Nov. 14-20 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

The world’s first urban centers, in Mesopotamia, were erected not as places of commerce or empire but, rather, so inhabitants could consort with the gods. Cultured Traveler: Thin Places, Where We Are Jolted Out of Old Ways of Seeing the World 2012-03-09T21:51:17Z

Now, people in rural states get so much more representation in the Senate than people in urban areas and suburban areas. We treat the Constitution like a religious text, with women’s bodies on the line 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

The collection, she said in her notes, is intended as "colorful, confident attire for navigating the urban landscape." Tracy Reese gets playful in bold color, prints 2012-02-12T21:32:11Z

Fully half of its residents have a college degree, and many have a PhD, making it the fifth best educated urban area in the nation. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z

His father, Edmund Norwood Bacon, was a celebrated urban planner, and Bacon now thinks a lot of his youthful drive came from wanting to be more famous than his father. Kevin Bacon: ‘I thought I'd be sent to the TV graveyard’ 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

It comes very close to endorsing the argument that we need more firearms in police hands to combat urban threat. It's looking up for London as its skyscrapers crack Hollywood 2013-03-19T16:59:33Z

Instead of working in sweatshops and living in crowded urban ghettos, the newcomers frequently moved to the frontier, supporting themselves as itinerant peddlers. A New Showcase for the Story of Jews in the South 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

We never noticed they were essentially the same act until Brown couldn't be on hand to offer his signature brand of dance-heavy urban pop. 10 pressing observations on the 2014 Billboard Music Awards 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

The video could also be a portrayal of the car’s fantasies about the perfect city: empty, rain-washed streets; roads curving into urban canyons; majestic nocturnal geometry. Last Chance: ?Cars, Culture, and the City? at Museum of the City of New York 2010-07-19T22:03:00Z

The men and women in urban theater call it “the circuit.” Fans love it. Critics don’t. After Tyler Perry, can urban theater cross over? 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

Moore also commented on the idea of urban areas being in a bubble. Michael Moore: 'Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate. Trump knew that' 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Full of strange structures, souqs, sculptures, performance art and secret corners, its Blade Runner-style urban film set takes 1,500 crew and artists to construct. Julien Temple: the dark side of Glastonbury 2012-06-13T19:00:01Z

After a decades-long urban renewal project by the federal and local governments, the Fillmore was reshaped - and gradually jazz clubs have started coming back. SFJazz Center opens, bringing swing to West Coast 2013-01-24T12:01:06Z

It's an urban legend that the truth-seeking site Snopes.com traced to a 1989 splash in the British press about a Turkish man who claimed his kidney was stolen. 'The Red Market:' Scott Carney's expos? of the worldwide traffic in blood and body parts 2011-06-29T23:02:12Z

Taking cues from nature is also part of the plan for Ronald Jones, whose densely planted backyard was just named the best urban garden in St. Louis at the Missouri State Fair. The Promise of Pawpaw 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

DS Animal Crossing New Leaf 3DS 3DS DS Playing as the new mayor, you control every aspect of a small town, from the name to urban development. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – review 2013-06-22T23:05:13Z

The working idea is that the site will serve as a “healthy food innovation center and urban food hub.” FreshFarm Markets founders to retire this year 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

Through a real estate development arm of his company, Vulcan Inc., he is building the vast urban campus of Amazon. At Seattle Art Fair, the Interaction Between Technology and Modern Life 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z

It is also said to be an influence on the first great Greek urban historian, Homer. Leo Hollis's top 10 books about cities 2013-04-26T07:37:40Z

The last time I saw Brian on screen was in “The Kitchen,” an uneven urban crime drama set in Hell’s Kitchen — where, coincidentally, we first met. Why did Brian Tarantina get so many shout-outs at the SAG Awards? He was a truly great character actor. 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

For some fresh air, or maybe to cure a hangover, try a walk around the English Gardens, a rare oasis of tranquillity during the Oktoberfest and one of the world's largest urban parks. Trip Tips: Munich's Oktoberfest stems from tradition, draws millions 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

His films “What Time Is It There?” and “Goodbye, Dragon Inn” would also be highly regarded for their moody, romantic evocations of urban loneliness. Tsai Ming-liang on youthful 'Rebels of the Neon God,' finally in theaters 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

It’s as if she discovered, after years translating cities and buildings into abstract form, that whole urban systems were already embedded inside her strokes. Julie Mehretu’s Long Journey Home 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Desimone said the urban surge in these studios is spreading across the map. Specialized, competitive workouts among top 2014 fitness trends 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

Ray's story about him swearing is an urban legend. How we made You Really Got Me 2013-06-10T17:59:01Z

According to Mr. Dean, break-dancing Jesus is considered “street art,” a term used to distinguish imaginative urban art from gang-related vandalism. Art in Bristol, England, Moves Beyond Museum Walls 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

He earned millions and spent much of that on a self-financed film about an urban dance form created in the rough neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles. David LaChapelle: An Unexpected Life 2011-05-27T19:05:28Z

Richmond's urban area and the Capitol complex in particular have served as the set for movies many times before. Spielberg to film 'Lincoln' scenes in Richmond 2011-10-04T18:53:08Z

“Small town communities, urban social circles and religious congregations can pull together a plan with a rapidity and precision world military leaders can envy,” she writes. Recipes for a Tidy and Tasty Death 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

Maybe that's why two elder statesmen of urban music have taken it upon themselves to explicitly call for a genre regrouping. Real R&B fans aren't waiting for the Weeknd 2011-03-29T08:50:31Z

But his art captures the promise of the urban experience, in which amazement might await around the next corner. In the galleries: City life, and the possible menace that lies beneath 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

It’s a mix of imperial and urban forms of bling, two parallel forms of bluster and self-marketing. Two Napoleons in Brooklyn, One in Timberlands 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

It has a brand name which is synonymous with wealthy, urban living. Karl Taro Greenfeld on His New Book, Urban Origin Myths and Whether Dads Can “Have It All” 2012-08-01T17:59:13Z

The transition from urban sprawl to natural tranquillity happened so quickly it was as though I’d been teleported. Confused in California 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

In fact, the new government encouraged youth bands to form in urban neighborhoods with the express purpose of performing propaganda songs that celebrated Ethiopia’s national heritage. Review | In 1984, these D.C. Ethiopian expats made a truly rare record. Now the world can hear it. 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

But throughout the years of obscurity and literary fame, East River Park was the writer’s dependable urban oasis. Eileen Myles Watches Over an Ever-Changing New York 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

More than half of the world’s population now live in urban environments, while 80% of young people aged 11-17 fail to get sufficient physical activity. Junk food shortening lives of children worldwide, data shows 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

While not all suburbs are alike, in general, suburban planners are not well versed in how best to support independent restaurants, said Dr. Samina Raja, a professor of urban planning at the University at Buffalo. America’s Next Great Restaurants Are in the Suburbs. But Can They Thrive There? 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z

In contrast, "Truth Like the Sun" is an urban novel; the book, particularly the 1962 sections, feels agreeably crowded with people and noise and fleeting impressions, like Pike Place Market on a sunny Saturday. 'Truth Like the Sun': Ready or not, Seattle grows up 2012-04-04T20:29:10Z

The “urban in-line” stores feature open kitchens, digital menu boards, local artwork — and alcohol. Taco Bell, Blue Point Brewery team up to create special beer for select New York City restaurants 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

The reality series will follow five people from Amish and Mennonite communities as they move to New York City and adjust to urban life. Breaking Amish: One Ex-Follower’s True Story of Moving to the Big Apple 2012-09-09T12:00:38Z

This is a neighborhood where physical urban beauty is as easy to appreciate as it is in Paris or Edinburgh. My Brooklyn, Then and Now 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

“In the 21st century, poetry belongs in the complexity, density and energy of an urban setting,” Mr. Goldman contended. Urban Beat for Poetry Festival 2010-10-05T22:37:00Z

Bobby Fokidis, an associate professor of biology at Rollins College in Orlando, focuses on how urban environments affect bird health, as well as the link between stress and disease in songbirds. Your dirty bird feeder could be spreading disease 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

Cider is also hip: Blue Bee in Richmond is Virginia’s only urban cidery and probably one of very few in the country. Cider, fit for Thanksgiving feasts old and new

But that shouldn’t stop us from building a smarter, more urban city. Essential Arts & Culture: L.A. Phil wraps up the season, Tony Awards coming up, reconsidering Frank Lloyd Wright 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

The British designer’s urban glamour brought a polka-dot shoulder cape to more military jackets, double breasted with an elasticized waistline and full sleeves. Special Report: Outerwear's Urban Glamour 2010-02-28T18:30:00Z

A Monsiváis aphorism sums up the passion of belonging to this urban labyrinth: “The worst nightmare is the one that excludes us.” Read Your Way Through Mexico City 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Combined with traffic whizzing by on the old iron-and-sandstone bridge, it was a perfect urban greeting. From Chili to the Underground Railroad, Cincinnati on a Budget 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

Beginning in the late 19th century, design, sculpture and landscaping were incorporated into urban planning to encourage public engagement. In New York and More, Public Art Is Taking on Thorny Social Issues 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

We didn't win yet many of our 2004 arguments for urban parks are now becoming part of the urban discourse. Mayor de Blasio’s Plan for Parks Needs to Grow 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

It was decorated with a shield patterned by gold fleur-de-lis — a symbol of his hometown, New Orleans — and a leather baseball hat with the points of a crown: urban royalty. Art: Rashaad Newsome, Blending Hip-Hop and Heraldry 2011-10-20T20:08:10Z

Born in Northern Ireland, Jonathan William Anderson, 29, is known for his urban, androgynous style. LVMH names J.W. Anderson creative director for Loewe 2013-09-25T21:25:03Z

Mr. Muldoon writes nature poems and urban poems and sex poems; he is at home in every setting. Paul Muldoon Collects His Poetic, Allusive, Satirical Thoughts 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

As Jake goes about his daily business of nursing birds or sawing logs, the urban world seems very far away. Artist of the week 125: Ben Rivers 2011-02-10T15:01:14Z

Both Klein and Moriyama explore urban streets in black-and-white, experimenting with the medium and pushing it to its figurative limits. Klein and Moriyama at London's Tate Modern – reviews roundup 2012-11-19T11:37:06Z

But that’s the point: This architecture isn’t about being lost in urban space, it’s about being lost between urban spaces, always on the fly, connected only to systems, not places. Architecture Review: All that’s missing from shiny, sleek CityCenterDC is CityHeartDC

The result is a distinctive urban beauty that is sometimes gritty and often surprisingly lovely. Jorie Graham’s first book in five years and other best poetry of the month 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

MON Tour educational, community-oriented farm teaching about building urban landscapes, 6:30 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Nobody’s Smiling is a testament to how deep-rooted urban struggle is. REVIEW: Common Speaks to Chicago on New Album Nobody's Smiling 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

It has flaws, but it is a magnificent urban experience, a passeggiata played out on multiple intersecting levels. Coming up short 2010-07-24T23:05:00Z

After purchasing the island in 1879, the City of Detroit hired Frederick Law Olmsted, the famed urban park designer responsible for Manhattan’s Central Park, to develop Belle Isle into the paradise they envisioned. In Detroit, Belle Isle Aquarium is a forgotten gem for fish aficionados 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

In these quintessential urban public spaces, the act of being fooled became a collective social experience, much as it is on "Is It Cake?" "Is It Cake?" feeds viewers visual catharsis for uncertain times 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

Roberts, a Times reporter and former urban affairs correspondent, traces the city’s history through iconic buildings: City Hall, Grand Central and more. New & Noteworthy, From Philosophy to New York Architecture 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

A great example of maximizing the urban interface is SeeClickFix, an online platform that lets people report local infrastructure problems, from leaky hydrants to dangerous intersections. Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun 2012-05-19T13:00:00Z

Some scholars believe that Tell Halaf was a trading center for ivory during the time of the Arameans, a nomadic people who settled in the area from around 1200 BC and developed an urban civilization. From the Ashes: Reviving Ancient Works in Berlin 2011-02-05T14:35:00Z

And the focus on exclusivity suggests the same competitive urges of urban parents obsessed with getting their toddlers into the right schools. Ruff Club Brings Exclusivity to the Pet World 2013-01-02T21:02:22Z

According to the study there was evidence that the practice was driving hundreds of thousands of refugees into urban slums and squalid camps, causing unnecessary death and suffering, and angering the peasantry. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

What most cheers me most about the Village is that it stands out like a sore thumb in the surrounding urban landscape, that familiar, vital L.A. fabric of high-low electicism. Disneyland meets Hogwarts at $700-million USC Village 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

There’s no palpable unified urban vision coming from the White House, and Obama’s relationship with his urban supporters is basically the same don’t-ask-don’t-tell friendship the Democrats always offer. Do Democrats hate cities? 2012-09-08T17:00:00Z

But what big city in America wouldn’t want to inject just a little of San Francisco’s charm or Portland’s uber-hipness into an urban core that generally tends to close for business at 5 p.m.? Are streetcars the future of public transportation? 2013-05-16T18:18:00Z

There are small wild creatures on this urban mountain, but the principal animal attraction is a colony of Japanese macaque monkeys. Fawning over fauna: A guide to Tokyo’s menagerie of animal cafes 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

It wasn't just the urban setting that set Made in America apart. Made in America Festival makes debut at downtown L.A.'s Grand Park 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

I am confident my expectations were informed by television dramas and lame local news, not an understanding of food insecurity in urban America in 2019. Are food trucks the future? Fighting food insecurity and gentrification one stop at a time 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

East Nashville; or any other outpost of creative urban revival. Bites: Restaurant Report: Maurepas Foods in New Orleans 2012-07-06T18:24:43Z

Long a symbol of car culture and urban decay, Detroit is now becoming something of a poster child for industrial renewal. Detroit Design Festival celebrates its fourth year 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

In cargo shorts and panama hat, Gero looked every inch a gentleman on urban safari. What does a theater company do when it can’t make theater? Make a film. 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

Instead, he gives brutal insight into the desperate actions that have turned the city into an urban war zone. Grammys 2015: Common's' 'Nobody's Smiling' deserves rap album honor 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

And finally, and perhaps most importantly, they were bringing all these ideas from another place, from another culture – the rural culture, which here was meeting the urban culture. 'We live in a time of transformation': artists reveal vision of future cities 2012-06-14T09:25:37Z

A twist midway through the season somewhat clarifies the lines between the different shades of black hats roaming and shaping its urban and ecologically degraded arena. "Westworld" rides towards its manifest destiny, this time in a straighter line 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z

The target is conveniently in the middle of nowhere, far enough away from any urban centers to head off distracting moralizing about civilian deaths and other collateral damage. No, "Top Gun" isn't an anti-woke success story, but rather a tribute to aging Tom Cruise and balls 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

Beginning in the 1970s, urban designers including Colin Rowe turned to figure-ground maps to illustrate the qualities that were being lost and to make the case for reasserting traditional urban patterns. Grand plans: how the simple planning diagram has shaped our cities 2012-11-22T15:24:06Z

You talk about urban farming, and you talk about training, bringing farmers to farms that are not generational farmers, programs that do that stuff. Love local and sustainable food? In the future data will drive more decisions than desire 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z

Discovered after the war, the film contains horrific images of starvation, poverty and humiliation, interspersed with surreal scenes of well-dressed Jews enjoying a restaurant dinner or an urban stroll. 'A Film Unfinished': Holocaust documentary 'finishes' incomplete Nazi propaganda film 2010-10-14T20:40:00Z

Weiss And now the market is a perfect little urban park, the opposite of the leftover spaces when a developer builds tall buildings and the city gets some dark, awkward plaza as compensation. Brooklyn Bridge, Star of the City: Here’s a Tour 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

The day after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, as much of urban America was experiencing drama akin to that occurring in Ferguson, Brown played a historic concert in Boston that helped defuse racial tensions. Watching James Brown tribute at the Bowl, thinking of Ferguson 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Department of Housing and Urban Development during a period of urban reexamination. Jane Lang, the spark behind H Street’s Atlas theater, steps out of the spotlight 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

This is as bleakly urban as it gets. In Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, street art is helping the community revive

Michael Sorkin was a bold and loud voice for sustainability and social justice in architecture and urban planning. Luminaries Lost: A look at some of the artists lost to virus 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

I’ve seen it where I’ve done black rooms where I was like, “I don’t know if I’m urban enough for this room.” Retta on why she’s “So Close to Being the S**t, Y’all Don’t Even Know” 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

But how did something eponymous with one of the most utilitarian urban spaces in America become synonymous with cozy farmhouse chic? How subway tile became the go-to solution for farmhouse chic 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Hewing to Gunn's metaphoric tale of assimilated urban blacks turned destructive through social separation and torn cultural and religious affiliations, Lee shows obvious affection for a fellow provocateur. 'Da Sweet Blood of Jesus' a vampire's kiss from Spike Lee 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

But what Linton considers art, some in law enforcement consider urban blight. When is graffiti art? L.A. show hones debate 2011-04-25T16:03:39Z

These two afflictions spread for the same reason: high concentrations of restless people living in urban centers. Stop fetishizing me: Why being an Asian woman in the dating world has never been harder 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

The parallels to New York’s adventures in urban renewal are not lost on Thai preservationists. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

While the original was black and white, my grandmother's rendering featured the bright red offsetting the muted colors of the urban streetscape. A mother's vanishing: A secret that haunted my family for generations, hiding in plain sight 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z

If you hadn't been paying attention to recent developments on the fringes of British urban music, the music sounded like one long WTF? Dizzee Rascal: 'The music just got bigger and better' 2012-06-21T22:00:01Z

Consider, for instance, that this early-19th-century writer pioneered the New World frontier, sea adventure, spy, war-romance and polar-exploration genres; allegorical and satirical fantasy tales; and works of urban and rural realism. James Fenimore Cooper — not just your grandpa’s favorite author 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Elegant and flamboyant architecture, clean, well-planned thoroughfares, no cars — the setting combines Italian flair with a Germanic regard for well-ordered urban space. In a Quiet Corner of Italy... Trieste 2011-04-29T19:35:37Z

The urban setting for the Manchester International Festival project Unlike the vast majority of events at Manchester International Festival, the Biospheric Project is a legacy commission that will continue itswork for at least ten years. Salford Spring to see fruit and veg sprout from the industrial past 2013-03-01T06:45:40Z

An important point, Mr. Gillett suggested, was that world music is urban, not rural — even though it might rise from rural traditions, as did American rock. Charlie Gillett, Disc Jockey and Historian, Dies at 68 2010-03-21T03:26:00Z

Shrouding all these expeditions is an urban smog that, in the manner of Sherlock Holmes’s London fog, obscures the truth. Review | In ‘Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line,’ an unforgettable voice emerges from an Indian slum 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

Likewise, in an urban setting, raised beds are often your only option to have a vegetable garden. The best vegetables to grow in raised garden beds 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

She said that there are many more younger, liberal, urban Iranians who would like to integrate their public and private lives. Lens Blog: Kiana Hayeri's Photos of Young Women in Iran 2012-05-29T15:12:25Z

This social realist novel follows single mother Lutie Johnson as she attempts to make a life for her young son in a predatory urban space. A must-read list: The enduring contributions of African American women writers 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

But again and again I came up against this idea that true urban sustainability cannot be about infrastructure alone. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

But in many others, every block or so holds out the possibility of a quick getaway to a faraway beach or an elegant urban glade. Outdoor Dining Offers Fresh Air and Fantasy to a City That Needs Both 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

The official website of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation lists free events led by urban park rangers across the five boroughs. Birders find an oasis awaits in Manhattan’s concrete jungle 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

On Thursday he traded his urban hip-hop style for a dark suit, better to hide the rubble dust and handprints as he crowd-surfed to open his rally. AP Interview: Wyclef Jean's vision for Haiti 2010-08-06T11:07:00Z

This seems surprising for a part-time DJ who has oft-expressed her love for "urban" music. Glastonbury 2010: Meet the celebrities 2010-06-28T07:00:00Z

The vibe is meant to be urban retro drive-in, complete with a mural of a cityscape sunset and a staff in jumpsuits. Two New Movie and Dining Spots in Brooklyn 2010-07-22T21:17:00Z

Because urban drug dealing is so visible in these communities, the media, elected officials, and law-abiding residents are more likely to pressure police to take action. “The Wire” is right about everything: David Simon nailed the police, media, politicians 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

The titles tend to flock to topics that interest millennials and embrace such matters as caring for succulents and houseplants, growing edibles in urban spaces, and planting gardens as ecological oases. Forget the perfect trophy garden. Today’s finest landscapes are positively wild. 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Real tennis was in decline by the 18th century as other games replaced it in popularity and many courts, which occupied valuable urban real estate, were converted into theaters and music halls. ‘Real Tennis’ May Be Obscure, but It Has Fans in Britain 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

The company started life as a marketing and booking site, linking those seeking urban novelties with one-of-a-kind events through its social media network. The death of spontaneous fun? How social media data is being used to create the perfect night out 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Costumes are modern urban wear — black, gray, white — with knee-length dresses for the women and suits for the men. Review: New York City Ballet’s ‘Jeux’ Lets Sara Mearns Shine 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Because of the similarities in experience between the indigenous and urban youth of color, I identify urban youth as neoindigenous. For white folks who teach in the hood: A lesson in campus colonialism 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

At the Guggenheim, Mr. Therrien will create programs about contemporary architecture and urban development. The Glow Coming to Madison Square 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

On a recent day of filming at a Manhattan studio made to look like an urban loft, she segued breezily from cooking dishes to dishing about "Dancing with the Stars." Rachael Ray still stirring the pot as everywoman 2010-10-21T16:23:00Z

Throughout the city, narrow streets, urban parks and restaurants that have seen better days give a sense of the time and place that the novel and the movie sought to convey. ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Offers a Tour of a Lost New York 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

A tragicomedy on sweeping urban expansion, blind to the lives of other species and spirits. Every Studio Ghibli film – ranked! 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Of course, over the past several decades, the city also became a poster child for urban depopulation and decay, problems that eventually resulted in its July 2013 bankruptcy filing. A Creative Renaissance Breathes New Life into Detroit 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

William Genovese, her brother, decided to investigate the story, which had made her death a symbol of urban apathy. Summer Movie Release Schedule 2016 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

“To develop as readers, kids need a lot of experience processing words,” said Timothy Shanahan, distinguished professor emeritus of urban education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Françoise Mouly’s Toon Graphics Takes Comics to Classrooms 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Shishe addicts in Iran are mostly urban, middle class and young, experts say. Methamphetamine use soars in Iran as lifestyles speed up 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

In the activist category the honoree was Dana Cuff, a professor at U.C.L.A. and the founder and director of the urban research group cityLAB. Architecture Award Honors Five Women 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

The 'Soul Train' creator is credited with bringing urban culture and R&B music into the homes of millions. ?Soul Train? Creator Don Cornelius Reported Dead of Suicide 2012-02-01T14:51:26Z

“Nightcrawler” is a modest and effectively executed urban thriller, suspenseful and entertaining in its clammy, overwrought way. ‘Nightcrawler’ Stars Jake Gyllenhaal as an Obsessive 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

The four musicians, sitting on one side of the stage, play in a variety of styles, encompassing African traditional and contemporary urban music. Before the World Shut Down, a ‘Rite of Spring’ on a Senegal Beach 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

But the exhibition is not just about the world's spectacular shift from rural to urban living. A world of change in 250 photos at London exhibition 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

Sharing creepy stories and urban legends on social media is perhaps a modern take on the age-old practice of telling unattributable ghost stories around a campfire or at bedtime. Halloween myths and urban legends that just won't die 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

Indeed, during their last four years they seem to have met only once, at a congressional subcommittee hearing on urban poverty. The Tragedy of 1968: What Might Have Been if King and Kennedy Had Lived 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

The events of the past week have made painfully clear that the fruits of this urban renaissance haven't been extended to all. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-08-12T14:57:47Z

This is more of a guided tour as spectators are subtly ushered from one room to the next — each alluringly arrayed to combine Great Depression-era décor with a contemporary urban industrial aesthetic. 'The Day Shall Declare It' has dazzling visuals, limited depth 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

By the mid-1880s, the alarming rise in urban poverty was a national scandal, and Mr. Booth decided to fund a research project to investigate its effect on London. An Early Triumph in Information Design 2010-05-23T16:00:00Z

These movies are such vivid time capsules of urban life and cinematic style that it can seem as if they must have been intended as such. Arts & Leisure: Urban Realist With a Humanist Streak 2011-04-13T13:29:51Z

The clothes for the designer’s “urban Madame Butterfly” were just too fancy in cut and decoration. Fashion Review: Missoni, With Texture 2014-02-24T18:25:24Z

There he found psychological distance from urban clamor and sporadic relief from the rheumatoid arthritis that had become debilitating. Art Review: Artist in Retreat: ?Late Renoir? in Philadelphia 2010-06-17T21:18:00Z

Second favorite and the only painter on the shortlist, George Shaw, depicts the melancholic and gritty urban wasteland of Coventry -- his childhood home. Favorite Martin Boyce scoops UK's Turner Prize 2011-12-05T21:09:26Z

Whites—Southern and Northern, liberal and conservative, rural and urban—are racists. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

The characters are little more than mannequins sporting various styles of urban disaffection. | 'The High LIfe': Captive to Politics and Radical Poetry 2011-06-19T22:17:09Z

Abraham describes it: “Looking at a 1991-92 urban time capsule as it relates to black culture, and bringing up conversations about what has and hasn’t changed when we have a black president.” Why artists become activists: It’s not only the election 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Trained as a city planner in Communist East Germany, Wüst began to use a camera in 1972 to record and study urban development in a straightforward, inexpressive manner. Ulrich Wüst at Christopher Grimes Gallery: A portrait of obsolescence 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

Riffing on the traditional Chinese idea of harmony between man and earth, Ma’s structures resemble the peaks of a distant mountain range, bringing a sense of nature into a dense urban environment. Armani/Casa’s Latest Project Is a Luxury Residence in Beijing 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

Seventy-five years after the creation of the first housing authority, this proposal recognizes that sound urban planning, aggressive social policy and an awareness of history are inseparably intertwined. Critic?s Notebook: To Renovate, and Surpass, City?s Legacy 2011-04-06T22:15:09Z

Yours may amount to a narrow urban yard or just a few containers on a patio. There are yards and then there are gardens. This is the difference. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

He appeared in more than a dozen episodes of the 2000 CBS series “City of Angels” as the unpredictable chairman of an urban hospital. Robert Morse, Impish Tony-Winning Comedy Star, Is Dead at 90 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Consider the matchups: Michael Connelly with that apotheosis of the urban diner, “Nighthawks,” Lee Child with the bleak “Hotel Lobby,” Joyce Carol Oates and the naked woman at the window of “Eleven A.M.,” Michael Dirda’s holiday book picks 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

As I approached, I felt an instant familiarity: the urban vibe, the strip malls, the racial diversity. Encounters With Ghosts on Georgia’s Golden Isles 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

In 2009, she went to the mountainous West Bank, where she decided to continue shooting in locations that she felt resembled Gaza, with its markedly flat landscape and overcrowded urban centers. Palestinian director overcomes politics to screen love story 2011-12-14T14:00:18Z

Gaye repeats the affirmation "right on" – a phrase distinctly grounded in black urban vernacular – throughout the album and on a song bearing that name. "What’s Going On" at 50 — Marvin Gaye’s Motown classic is as relevant today as it was in 1971 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z

Twenty years since the film’s release, the fusion of folklore, urban myth and modern technology holds up nicely, although anyone addicted to rapid-fire editing may now find the pace a bit stately. Top 20 Japanese horror films – ranked! 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Speer, Jr., an eighty-two-year-old with a perennially serious expression and a fondness for energetic hand motions, is one of Germany’s best-known urban planners. The Complicated Architecture of Albert Speer, Jr. 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

Ms. Rosenfelt described meeting there as a form of “urban hacking.” New York?s Literary Cubs 2011-11-30T23:21:40Z

“It pits a nervous, trigger-happy police force against an aggravated urban underclass in a battle of wills and weaponry that is all too universally recognizable,” wrote Variety critic Guy Lodge. Cannes filmmaker urges Macron to watch tale of French police violence 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

The video for Caffeine, by Diaz and filmmaker Patricia Luna, shows the same figures in a perpetual motion machine of urban life. Brandt Brauer Frick say you can get (slightly) jiggy with it 2011-08-04T21:30:03Z

And it is precisely the conflict between urban elites and culture-war conservatives that would become emblematic of the political climate in subsequent decades. ‘Mad Men’ and the 1960s as Wild Republican Times 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

In a recent e-mail interview, Mr. Binelli discussed the rise of urban agriculture in Detroit, apportioning blame for the city's problems and more. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Mark Binelli on His Book 'Detroit City Is the Place to Be' 2012-12-05T19:36:36Z

News articles about adventure playgrounds tend to focus on the hammers and the saws, but for many urban children simply mucking about can be a pleasurable way of spending an afternoon. What It Would Take to Set American Kids Free 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Food issues have been a rallying cry for many urban leaders in recent decades, and New York mayors have been no exception. New York’s Mayor Is Building an Agenda Around Food. Will It Satisfy? 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

DreamWorks Animation releases are distributed by Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc. "Death at a Funeral," an urban remake of the 2007 British comedy of the same name, opened within industry expectations. "Dragon" edges out "Kick-Ass" at box office 2010-04-18T18:24:00Z

Mr. Grooms and Ms. Gross’s distorted rendering of the city in papier-mâché, vinyl and fiberglass spoke to the precariousness of urban life, the impermanent character of the city at any given moment. Art Is Fleeting, but Red Grooms Is Forever 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Yet here we are, in the position of having to manufacture new urban spaces, as though cities were just another type of product. The urban age: how cities became our greatest design challenge yet | Justin McGuirk 2010-03-29T13:39:00Z

At its heart is the on-camera testimony of Frédéric Bourdin, a damaged pathological liar and serial impersonator who "always wanted to be someone else" and whose exploits have become the stuff of urban legend. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-01-06T00:08:07Z

A little later, another talking head proclaims that NPR exaggerates the unfortunate consequences of urban sprawl. 'Urbanized': sprawling views on urban planning 2012-01-05T21:44:04Z

The life drawings were composed at evening classes in Manchester in about 1916 - the year before Lowry began his famous urban "matchstick" paintings. Lowry nudes 'delight' auctioneer 2013-06-28T19:49:58Z

Which, along with the pop urban psychology, was the point. What’s New York Fashion Really About? 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z

The ramped surfaces bring to mind the fluid spaces of the emerging information age; the Brutalist forms echo our recent fascination with large-scale urban infrastructure. Architecture Review: A Paris Tribute to an Almost-Sideways View of the World 2010-03-09T23:26:00Z

He also has a clothing line named for him by Ms. Rowley, based on his urban daddio look, called “Mr. Powers.” Cynthia Rowley and Bill Powers Are Everywhere at Once 2012-03-16T23:26:35Z

By introducing programs and urban planning initiatives, such as wholesome school lunches, corporate wellness programs and more bike paths, Dyson hopes to reduce overall rates of obesity and chronic disease in these towns. Tech investor gets five towns to join social-health experiment 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

The site also gives shout-outs to blogs that identify urban wildlife, like urbanhawks.blogs.com or citybirder.blogspot.com. Weekend Miser 2011-03-17T23:23:29Z

Mr. Holl’s noteworthy projects include the Chapel of St. Ignatius in Seattle; the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki; and urban development projects in China. Steven Holl and Athol Fugard among Winners of Praemium Imperiale Awards 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

So how did this idea, which is largely an urban legend, start? Razor blades and weed edibles: Behind the enduring Halloween "candy poisoning" urban legends 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z

Vowing to be “man-free,” she flees urban life to her second home in the country. Review | Decades after ‘Sex and the City,’ Candace Bushnell returns to her old stomping grounds 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

AM This excellent series has taken a positive spin on the challenges facing India's urban underclass. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 15-19 October 2012-10-15T07:00:00Z

And they are starting with top urban areas in Florida. Traveling Around Florida? Ditch the Car and Ride the Rails, Says Virgin 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Just as the new-money Russell family across the street took over 19th-century New York, so have animals taken over as close companions, especially for those in urban areas. The value of Pumpkin on "The Gilded Age," descended from a breed that's all about the good life 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Or are we talking about everyone getting what they want: wealthy people getting to move to urban cores, and immigrants finally getting a shot at a lawn and a two-car garage? Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun 2012-05-19T13:00:00Z

The ad, for a new ice beer aimed at the so-called urban market, features a bunch of partygoers splashing around in a pool. Shalom Auslander creates a curmudgeon much like himself in 'Happyish' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Like the Chinese-takeout container, said Mr. Moore, “it’s very urban, very New York, very iconic.” Tired of Twee Edison Bulbs? Bring On the Neon 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

If anything, it’s blogs like these that are carrying forth the freewheeling urban voice, while many alt-weeklies have started to feel bizarrely uptight. Goodbye, alt-weeklies 2012-10-06T17:00:00Z

“The Colony,” on Discovery — now advertising for Season 3 volunteers, if you’re interested — sticks a group of ordinary folks in a desolate urban or suburban landscape. Critic?s Notebook: Gutting a Porcupine and Other Tips for the Apocalypse 2010-12-29T20:22:17Z

If shop you must, then head out to the Zurich West neighborhood, sort of the Williamsburg of the city, which is poised between industrial use and hip urban renovation. Zurich, for a Song 2010-09-24T18:42:00Z

There will, though, be a place for urban arts – skateboarding, BMX biking and graffiti art – if it is wanted in the new development. Southbank centre unveils ambitious £100m redevelopment 2013-03-06T17:30:05Z

A chef, minister and mother of 10 children, Ms. Brown, 59, grew up in Black Bottom, a haven of Black-owned businesses and culture then threatened by urban renewal projects. In Detroit, a Bet That Healthy Restaurants Can Help the City 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

The fact that he had done urban fiction did not lead her to think he could do only that. As Audiobook Market Grows, Narrators of Color Find Their Voice 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

His striking portraits situate divinely decked-out dancers against dilapidated urban backdrops, acts of self-transformation juxtaposed with circumstances that are harder to change. French and American Dance Festival, All Around New York 2014-05-06T15:05:13Z

A new generation of Korean artists was growing suspicious of gestural painting, while others were embracing temporary urban interventions and visceral performances. A Full View, at Last, of Modern Art in South Korea 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

And when the belly-busting glut becomes too much, Osaka’s top-notch museums and urban parks provide welcome, necessary respite. 36 Hours in Osaka, Japan 2012-06-07T21:16:15Z

When the architect Lord Rogers was asked by Tony Blair to do a survey of urban Britain, he was advised "to avoid using words like beauty if I wanted to be taken seriously". We all care about beauty ? why don't politicians? 2010-04-08T07:06:00Z

Advanced mapping tools, around since the 1960s, were initially used primarily for environmental analysis and urban planning. Humanities 2.0: With Digital Mapmaking, Scholars See History 2011-07-26T13:43:41Z

The bustle of the urban alleyways and the restiveness of the small towns come across credibly throughout. The Summer of Josh Brolin Continues, on Netflix 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

An idea gaining traction would restore the 38 acres as a sustainable urban park-within-the-park. The National Mall’s immortal reflection 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

Similar broth bars souped up the scene in other urban centers and college enclaves, along with bone broth home delivery services and carts or freezer-packs. Magic or mythic? Bone broth is at the center of a brewing cultural divide 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

This is one more sad event in a long history of urban violence in Brazil. Brazilian rapper MC Daleste fatally shot on stage 2013-07-09T11:19:20Z

I’m encouraged by signs of rewilding in even the most intensely urban parts of the city, where it’s most needed. Rewilding: Garden in harmony with nature 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

For example, barbarian shootouts in inhabited urban cities that are nowhere near those in my books. The Russian Tom Clancy Is on the Front Lines for Real 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The effect – now a common analytical technique, known as figure-ground – reveals the characteristic pattern of streets and buildings that underlies urban form. Grand plans: how the simple planning diagram has shaped our cities 2012-11-22T15:24:06Z

“I was like, ‘Omigod, I am meeting with this group of urban planners and I’m being served eviction papers.’” Rent hikes and evictions — is this the last stand for artists in the Arts District? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton lookalikes emerging from the innerworkings of a giant clock to strut the catwalk in urban variations on "The Tramp'"s black suits. Mexican masks, retro futuristic suits hit Paris 2010-06-25T21:59:00Z

I was determined to stay away from big cities, traffic and crowds — anything that would remind me of my urban home or what my urban home used to exude. In the hills of western Pennsylvania, a skeptical New Yorker gives glamping a try 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

London, with its cosmopolitan energy, urban memory, cultural openness, literary traditions, gender equality and freedom of expression, was everything I could not find in Istanbul. ‘Britain Is No Home to Me’: Five Artists Respond to ‘Brexit’ 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

The city has adopted innovative zoning and permitting ordinances to support small-scale urban agriculture. Food forests are bringing shade and sustenance to US cities, one parcel of land at a time 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

First produced in the late 1980s, Howard Korder's "Boys' Life" garnered a Pulitzer nomination for its portrait of three disaffected young urban men on the prowl for women. Age has dimmed this 'Boys' Life' 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Just as in a Hallmark movie where the overextended urban single woman gets lured out to a distant aunt’s rural bed-and-breakfast, there are going to be some life changes. ‘The Last Full Measure’ Review: Remembering a Fallen War Hero 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

In Greg Pierce’s play about returns and restorations, a woman returns to her hometown with a colorful plan for urban renewal — paint the place red. What’s New in NYC Theater 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

They’re made of plaster and reference New York’s urban landscape, including fire escapes and laundry drying on lines. In Chelsea, a Little Piece of Prerevolutionary Iran 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

The key challenge for these countries will be meeting the needs of their growing urban population with basic services like education, health care, housing, infrastructure, transportation, energy and employment. World cities, home to most people, to add 2.5 billion more by 2050: U.N. 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

If you stand on the Mall side you can see the tops of trees and, in the far distance, a venerable piece of urban earth art, the Washington Monument. A Bold New Landing for Modern Art at the National Gallery 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

A fashion show, with riders from local bike groups modeling urban bike-fashion trends, will occur on Saturday. All things cycling at Seattle Bike Expo 2013-03-06T22:28:13Z

But even when a command to smile is just that, Fairchild says there can be a “cumulative effect” if it happens often, as it can in urban areas. Masks are off — which means men will start telling women to ‘Smile!’ again 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z

From Notting Hill in London to the Colaba district of Mumbai, there are countless striking examples of urban development that complement a city’s historical fabric. Returning to Hyderabad, Once a Land of Princes and Palaces 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

She worked as a research fellow at the University of Leeds on a three year project examining prospects for urban youth across Europe, funded by the European Commission. Teaching Shakespearean insults helps my students decode the Bard's language 2013-04-24T14:52:17Z

Long scenes of driving through Paris offer a feast of urban textures along with ample views of injury, infirmity, and the daily grotesque. What to Stream This Weekend: Agnès Varda’s Chronicle of a Parisian Pop Star’s Dread-Filled Afternoon in “Cleo from 5 to 7” 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

The Guggenheim curators had invited them to the space, designed by the Tokyo architects Atelier Bow-Wow, to participate in programs that explored the complexities of urban life under the umbrella theme “Confronting Comfort.” Inside Art: Meals as Art at MoMA; David Altmejd at Peter Brant?s Gallery 2011-10-27T22:47:46Z

Hatoum meant the work as a meditation on urban architecture and the surveillance methods used to police it, themes that began to preoccupy her after she moved to London in 1975 from Lebanon. Mona Hatoum and the 6ft cheese-grater 2010-12-12T21:46:00Z

“The Nutty Nutcracker, I always tell kids now, is an urban myth,” Glover said. ‘The Nutcracker’: Fairies and tulle onstage, total nuts backstage 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

She compared his photo to work by the Venetian painter Canaletto for its color and urban setting. Treating Sports Photographers as the Artists They Are 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

To paraphrase the manly poet Hamlin Garland, they let urban professionals be savage again. Extreme Obstacle Course Races Forge a Bond in Mud and Guts 2012-12-07T23:56:00Z

I’m making the rounds at a small gathering of urban literary types in a bougie brownstone in Brooklyn, New York. My secret sex-work past 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z

Where but in the Eternal City is it possible to map a 2,000-year-old eyewitness account onto an intact urban fabric? Rome, Through the Eyes of Flavius Josephus 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

Here, they have scored a coup, placing Aeschylus's great tragedy of war on the edge of the Epynt hills in Cilieni, a mock-up village where today's troops train for urban warfare. The Persians 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

Like any urban legend or media sensation, the alleged "curse of the pharaohs" grew to epic proportions over the years. 9 Victims of King Tut's Curse (And One Who Should Have Been) 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

This is a caper populated by urban elites. ‘Let’s Not Do That Again,’ a Crackling Satire Set Against a Senate Run 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

In the morning, adventure playgrounds become settings for an urban version of a forest preschool, where small children learn the basics of getting along outdoors. What It Would Take to Set American Kids Free 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

It’s hard to sing around a campfire in the middle of Manhattan, so this weekend Lincoln Center offers children an urban alternative: singing around a fountain. Spare Times for Children for May 8-14 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

It gave the spring musing a harder, urban edge. Naomi Campbell steals Lanvin show at Paris Fashion Week 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

In 19th century America, a new urban middle class developed along with a transformation within the American home. The real history of the “war on Christmas” 2013-12-24T12:45:00Z

Even small backyards and urban jungle pocket parks host resident and migratory species, which all vary depending on location, as well as time of year for the latter. A concise guide to birding in your own backyard 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

Here, old-school stalwarts mingle with artsy young people, helping to create a city that serves as a canvas for the kind of urban dreams that more crowded and expensive cities can’t foster. 36 Hours in Pittsburgh 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

"I feel very few films convey the communal nature of urban life these days, the lack of boundaries," Sachs says. New-wave queer cinema: 'Gay experience in all its complexity' 2012-10-04T18:59:01Z

Mr. Wurtz’s indoor sculpture tends toward wry conjunctions of unassuming materials, including the kinds of flimsy plastic shopping bags that festoon so many urban trees, unintended ornaments to which these interloping “Kitchen Trees” nod happily. 3 Outdoor Art Shows and One Trusty Dog (With Tricks!) 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

In “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” published in 1961, the urban theorist Jane Jacobs famously suggested that diverse and densely populated neighborhoods helped a city thrive. What Public Life Used to Look Like in San Francisco’s Mission District 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Certainly, city governments need to provide for their people and run a tight ship, but a city that operates like a valet service works against urban life’s primary strength. Urban entertainment districts: Blocks where no one has fun 2012-05-19T13:00:00Z

Musical styles have ranged from R&B to upbeat soul, to pop with rap elements, to urban dance music. Eurovision: it's time to stop laughing at foreigners 2013-05-17T11:47:54Z

Rinse FM has been awarded an FM broadcasting licence, giving it further opportunity to bring dubstep, UK funky and other new urban sounds into the mainstream. Rinse FM awarded broadcasting licence 2010-06-18T10:20:00Z

Now, urban mixology has added its own peculiar twist: the seasonal cocktail bar. Pop-Up Bars Proliferate During the Holidays 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

Today, New York’s Central Park on a balmy Saturday is a picture of thousands of city dwellers walking, jogging, picnicking and generally being in love with urban life. Review | Dig into these gorgeous books for gardening inspiration 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

They have never stopped innovating and caring, and nowhere is this more evident than in the vast proliferation of urban gardens and farms that dot the city’s landscape. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

We're not yet at the stage of thinking the same thing of a boy turning 13, although in some parts of urban Britain we appear to be not far off it. Rewind TV: How TV Ruined Your Life; Scenes from a Teenage Killing; Posh and Posher; The Killing 2011-01-30T00:06:19Z

After losing its longtime home to urban redevelopment, the Drilling Company’s Shakespeare in the Parking Lot has taken possession of a new square of asphalt. Theater Listings for July 1-7 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Their urban sensibility was elevated into a national platform for contrarian and anti-authoritarian rebellion, led by a mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, whose misaligned facial features and insouciant grin graced nearly every Mad cover. A World Without Mad Magazine 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

However, I did arise long enough to look at today's Seattle Times, where I read my pal Marc Ramirez's story about Seattle's urban farms. Monday, Monday, so bad to me 2010-06-07T17:16:00Z

Trail cams offer an amazing look at the natural world of urban wildlife. What wild animals walk through your yard? A trail cam can help you find out. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

In the painting, Delft is an urban center clustered in the lower third of the canvas, dwarfed by enormous clouds — some white and fluffy, some gray and menacing. Cultured Traveler: Drawing Yourself Into the Scene 2013-12-12T16:43:08Z

But he, like many others, said they were simply taken with the festival's urban setting. Made in America tests Grand Park, with mixed reviews from fans 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

But the market was an urban wonderland that her young children explored then. Molly Shannon Loves You, but Will Not Give You Her Number 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Within, a crafted sequence of spaces revolves around a chiselled brick and concrete atrium with the urban qualities of a real civic place. Riba awards 2013: buildings for nuns, pupils, tourists … and Ferraris 2013-06-12T18:58:19Z

The Bauhaus’s progeny produced millions of buildings of unparalleled ugliness, blighting urban environments worldwide. Review | Bauhaus designers changed the way the world looks. But did they make it better? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

Scott’s “Blade Runner” envisioned Los Angeles in 2019 as a sprawling urban metropolis infused with Eastern and Western cultures. Replicant or human? 'Blade Runner 2049' reignites existential debate 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

In the view of Mr. Mayer, the site can attribute its success to a connoisseur impulse that is on the rise among young urban professionals. With Wristwatches Website Hodinkee, Benjamin Clymer Carves a Niche 2013-12-20T21:44:57Z

Despite the urban location, double-glazed sash windows keep the night passably peaceful. Five new London hotels: reviewed 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

That left space for his thoughtful rhymes, which grapple with stardom, urban struggles and sometimes apocalyptic visions. Music Review: When the Bass Is Like a Conqueror, Crushing the Guitars and Words 2011-08-14T22:30:28Z

“Fashion is full of meaningless terms like ‘tribal’ and ‘urban,’ ” said Ms. Jennings, who is also the editor of Arise, a two-year-old monthly African fashion and culture glossy. Africa?s New Fashion Influence 2011-12-07T21:32:37Z

It’s no longer urban — not even in the geographic sense — and it’s not about Combs anymore. They laughed when Diddy launched a fashion line. Then he changed the industry. 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Most of these stories offer variations on a particular sort of woman: in her 30s, urban, emotionally adrift. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

Designs hitting the catwalk will include the usual casual urban streetwear, outerwear and couture gowns, plus colorful saris and other designs influenced by Asia and Africa. Seattle Fashion Week has an international flavor in 2010 2010-05-11T20:48:00Z

While that connection makes marketing sense, in spirit the endeavor is more like a suburban version of the urban “Sculpture Projects Münster,” a once-per-decade exhibition of commissioned public art throughout the German city. International art invades the suburban Coachella Valley: The best of 'Desert X' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

And any Cunningham devotee will recall urban studies like his “CRWDSPCR,” in which the movement of one human being is circumscribed by that of others. The Art of Summer: Art of Summer: Grand Central?s Fluid Human Dance 2011-08-31T12:02:00Z

Rural and urban environments are conjured with a specificity that evokes the very different, equally daunting vastness of each. ‘Lula del Ray,’ a Spectral Parade of Fantastical Images 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

As far as Scottish island distilleries go, Bowmore is practically urban. The Whisky Chronicles 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

“What a valuable life lesson! Kids, when you see an urban military strike vehicle, run toward it for the free teddy bears!” Stephen Colbert’s best idea yet: Make MRAPs less scary by making them look like hot dogs 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

“I’m writing this paper and the chair is wobbly, and I don’t know how to fix it,” Epona said of her time in the urban world. How to Prepare Now for the Complete End of the World 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

Actually, the bra-burning urban legend can be traced to a young female reporter at the New York Post. No bras were harmed in the making of feminism (sort of) 2014-04-18T21:35:00Z

In urban areas, directional and transit signs are usually bilingual, although some English signs are more decorative than designed to convey information. Why your next vacation should be in Japan 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

“High Maintenance,” one of the most sensitive and realistic portraits of urban life I’ve ever seen, turned out to be as great on HBO as it was as a Web series on Vimeo. My Most Memorable Cultural Moments of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Perhaps, he thinks, he should start a foundation “that would help urban youth buy their first mechanical watch and learn to care for it.” Review | Gary Shteyngart takes aim at white male privilege 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

Indeed, Ms. Coddington sometimes fantasizes about fleeing such tableaux of urban sophistication entirely. Grace Coddington Is Always in Fashion 2012-11-17T11:00:00Z

“There was this expectation that these vans would be a perfect substitute for conventional transit,” says Columbia University assistant professor of urban planning David King. When libertarianism fails 2012-06-09T16:00:00Z

"My interiors, like my clothes and bags, are quite urban," she says. | Ulrika Lundgren 2012-09-13T20:17:06Z

Yet they manage to suggest urban landscapes whose loveliness is all the more poignant for being fugitive. Bob Law drawings find poignancy in simplicity 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Bettany Hughes’s “Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities” is a brilliant and beautifully written urban biography. Read Your Way Through Istanbul 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

They are alternately rural and urban, tender and apocalyptic, written in the face of oil spills and also under a “raptor’s / accurate shadow / falling over me always / premonitory.” Four New Poetry Collections Confront Despair With Wonder 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

Muse section, is an examination of the movement of urban gardening told through a handful of stories centered on South Los Angeles. Los Angeles Film Festival reboots with focus on discovery, world premieres 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

While you might not classify preserves grown from urban farms as works of art, Benjamin wouldn’t see anything wrong with Grasse’s entrepreneurship. | Snap Tonic 2010-10-25T15:39:00Z

Joe: Why must every fictional date between youngish people in urban areas include an art opening? 'Girls' Recap: An Awkward Date Night for Hannah 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

Vancouver, with its snowcapped mountains and sleek, squeaky-clean downtown can seem to a new visitor to be lacking in urban grit. Five Places to Visit in Vancouver 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

“We’re imagining the moment of the beams going up a bit like the chiming of Big Ben; a moment of urban consciousness,” she said. London Bridges are Lighting Up 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Our new study offers an insight into which specific pollinators we need to encourage to support and expand urban fruit and vegetable production. Bees and hoverflies are key to growing more fruit and veg in cities 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

A study I looked at found that injuries among pedestrians wearing headphones tripled between 2004 and 2011, with most accidents occurring in urban areas. Perspective | Ask Amy: Surgeon’s risky behavior must be addressed 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z

Projects range from greening urban gardens to reforesting miles of fragile coastline. Designer Thomas L. Woltz Is Changing the Landscape of Green Space Design 2013-12-05T05:00:00Z

Others are less heralded, like a jogging video by multimedia performer Jillian Mayer, in which rural video is projected against the urban landscape along her path. 125 YouTube videos shortlisted for Guggenheims 2010-09-20T12:16:00Z

And by using her own children, their friends and her neighbors as models, in urban and domestic settings, she puts her own skin in the game. Oasa DuVerney’s Black Power Wave 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

The urban farming group meets on Saturdays during the school year and twice a week during the summer, including at least three farmers’ markets held at the church. Fresno’s Freedom School is changing the narrative on farming for black youth 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

“Mr. Tambourine Man,” a song of unrelenting insomnia and urban bleakness whose precise meaning has remained a puzzle for decades, was on the acoustic side of the album. Bruce Langhorne, guitarist who inspired Bob Dylan to write ‘Mr. Tambourine Man,’ dies at 78 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

What follows is a quick history lesson – backed up with archive footage – by Dre on how desegregation led to white flight and urban pools were “defunded, drained and closed”. Trump called it racist, Obama loves it: why Black-ish is TV's most divisive show 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

The first was a $10-million Ford Foundation grant to the university in 1966 to be used for “urban and minority affairs.” Challenging the whiteness of American architecture, in the 1960s and today 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Birmingham, with its enthusiastic embrace of urban sprawl, lapped them up. Rediscovering Birmingham's movie meccas 2010-03-30T15:38:00Z

What they call urban culture is now pop culture. Jay-Z’s Producer No I.D. on the Grammys: ‘Urban Culture Is Now Pop Culture’ 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

In other words, a diploma from a suburban California school should mean that a student is as well prepared for college and the workforce as a student from rural Iowa or urban New York. What Standardized Tests Teach Us About the Future of Testing 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

The Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis focused on a young urban folk singer hoping to get a big gig in Chicago. Nebraska: Alexander Payne’s America, Plains and Simple 2013-05-23T19:09:59Z

In a playful retort to what were once deemed proper materials such as bronze, Barlow looks to the urban environment, crafting everything from toppled spires to big scrunched-up fabric boulders from recycled cast-offs. This week's new exhibitions 2011-08-26T23:05:08Z

It was dreamed up more than a dozen years ago by a former urban planning student at Georgia Tech, Ryan Gravel. In ‘By the People,’ Designing for the Underserved and Overlooked 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

The bride’s father retired as an urban planner for the City of Raleigh. Bethany Hill, Mitchell McCarthy 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

They are an integral part of local economies and communities in every corner of rural, suburban and urban America, and they are seeing their life’s work and livelihoods suddenly vanish. A ‘Great Cultural Depression’ Looms for Legions of Unemployed Performers 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z

I went to Emerson to be around nerdy artistic kids in an urban setting, but I arrived to find the small liberal arts school lacking in a party atmosphere of any kind. I married my sorority sister 2013-01-23T01:00:00Z

In my previous life of dive bars and urban rooftops, it didn’t matter what you said or whether you meant it, as long as you twisted your words into something clever. Modern Love: Learning to Silence My Inner Editor 2014-02-13T19:38:06Z

Washington, like other urban centers that attract culture lovers, remains, because of the pandemic, largely demagnetized. Perspective | D.C. theater is taking cautious steps back to ‘live’ with plexiglass screens and plays on headphones 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

This season can make even the grouchiest New Yorker an urban romantic, and encourages local residents and visitors alike to rediscover the museums and monuments we sometimes take for granted. Holiday Museum Guide: Where to See Art This Season 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

The stories she tells of life in the village, where a young mother is drowned as a witch, imply that poisonous sexism isn’t exclusive to the urban West. Review: In Zawe Ashton’s ‘for all the women,’ the Price of Uprooting a Life 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

The San Juan Islands seemed perfect for Caroline, a native New Yorker who has long tempered her urban soul by painting watercolors and growing strawberries on her balcony. Going frugal in Portland, Vancouver and Orcas 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

He invented the supernatural thriller in novels like "The Place of the Lion" and "The Greater Trumps," books that created a genre we now call urban fantasy. J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and 'The Fellowship' of fantasy writers 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Graffiti and the occasional wrecked car line the banks, all of it combining to create a surreal tableau of urban and pastoral. Let’s swim to work! 2012-09-15T13:30:00Z

One of my favorites urban pleasures has long been buying books on the street. Book stalls, used books and other pleasures of New York City 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

To date, all the vertical farms I’m familiar with grow herbs and greens, high-value crops that they sell to well-heeled urban consumers. Will indoor, vertical farming help us feed the planet — or hurt it? 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

In the agrarian America of the 1700s women were respected as hard workers on the farms, but that changed with urban migration in the 1800s. Women of a Certain Age, Gail Collins Has Your Back 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

As I write, in a blessedly hot July, that icon of the urban wild, the swift, has returned to its brick and concrete parishes. Richard Mabey: in defence of nature writing 2013-07-18T13:00:02Z

It’s a very tropical culture with an urban influence. Panama City’s Casco Viejo Cleans Up Nicely 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

It's becoming less urban and more pop/dance. How Jay Sean and Taio Cruz took America by storm 2010-04-01T20:30:00Z

This progressive turn is simultaneously a product of and a response to the changing mores of the urban middle class, which has developed a more tolerant view than other segments of society. Gay-Themed Movies in India Fight Back Against Taboos 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

And by being displayed in Queens, the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world, the work also turns into a celebration of immigrant communities and of living together in difference. Monuments That Celebrate Communal Struggles, Not Flawed Men 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

It makes the building foremost an urban object, part of the boulevard and the public realm. LACMA redesign avoids tar pits, creates challenges 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

The sprawl surrounding urban cores, the researchers found, is responsible for a full 50 percent of the country’s household emissions — while containing far fewer than 50 percent of the population. This map shows how suburban sprawl is destroying the environment 2014-01-08T16:50:00Z

But these are big changes that require support from politicians, urban planners and community members, as well as funding. Could you skip your workout if you built more activity into your day? 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Echoing Jane Jacobs, he argues that the sheer density of urban life, “the proximity of all those overlapping minds,” forces people to mingle and interact with a diversity of individuals. Books of The Times: ?Imagine: How Creativity Works,? by Jonah Lehrer 2012-04-02T21:58:15Z

By 1900, shutterbugs in these Latin American capitals were snapping plush urban parks in Buenos Aires and Mexico City, spaces of leisure for the new bourgeoisie. How Latin America Was Built, Before Modernism Came Along 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

This was a century at war with itself: urban revolt, civil war and international conflict, and sometimes all at the same time. Climate Change and Human History 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

Also in the exhibition, designed to reflect an urban community, a wall mural, created by the artist Kenya Lawton, a.k.a. Birthday Messages to Celebrate Lives, Not Mourn Police Killings 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

Li’s narrative hinges on her failure to thrive in the city; that failure is antithetical to China’s overarching narrative of progress and urban opportunity. Country life: the young female farmer who is now a top influencer in China 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

It has stuck to good urban strategies: mixed use, slow growth, pedestrian-friendly streets, sensible restoration alongside new construction, and an emphasis on active and ample public space. Critic’s Notebook: A Rothschild Building in London 2013-01-09T21:32:09Z

The images in the BlackRock Center for the Arts show were made at Chinese movie studios that are busier and more urban than their Spanish counterparts. In the galleries: D.C. artist summons the supernatural in the everyday 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

We have to keep pushing these conversations outside of liberal urban centers and social media silos. After my abortion I felt relieved — and I’m in the majority 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

The inspiration for the third component might be explained by a gallery note that reveals the Mexico-born local artist’s current field of study: urban planning. Review | In the galleries: In two exhibitions, three painters put aside their brushes 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

"The electronic thing got identified as everybody in this urban environment singing about being disassociated from the world," says Ware. Forgive us our synths ? how 80s pop found favour again 2010-11-18T23:33:00Z

He graduated from Saint Louis University and received a master’s degree in urban affairs from Hunter College. Mark Lowe, Stephen Noonan 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

The duo built a 7,000-square-foot cake castle and candied urban block party called “Break Bread,” which opens Saturday in downtown L.A.’s Think Tank Gallery. Artists' immersive cake castle is a sugary installation with a dark twist 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

It is a harrowing story, lifting the lid on urban poverty and grim exploitation. The explosive film lifting the lid on sex trafficking between India and LA 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

Many attempts have been made to prove she was a genuine historical figure, but author, genealogist and historian Sean Murphy is convinced Molly is merely an ever-evolving urban legend. Tart with a cart? Older song shows Dublin's Molly Malone in new light 2010-07-18T16:48:00Z

The latest entry in the urban rental market is not a tiny apartment in a hip neighborhood. D.C.’s latest twist on upscale urban living: A dorm for grown-ups in a historic mansion 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

Could they build their dream vacation home that would allow them to step off the urban treadmill? An Eastern Shore river home is a family getaway for all seasons 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

Not only is it one of his best albums but for American hip-hop and urban music it's a real slap in the face saying, 'This is what it should be'. Stars pick favourite albums of the year 2010-12-27T07:27:17Z

Again and again I marveled at the efficiency of an Interstate System designed to penetrate deep into the urban grid. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

How to marry the character of the hyena and this urban feel with the music and the costume without becoming the stereotype that we know all too well. How ‘The Lion King’ Got to Broadway and Ruled for 25 Years (So Far) 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

The first announced content deal between MySpace and TV producer Ben Silverman's Electus production company will put the spotlight on an urban dance movement known as Jerk, or Jerkin', which originated in Los Angeles. MySpace developing "Jerk All-Stars" dance series 2010-10-25T09:01:00Z

Hilfiger's show will be Sunday at the open-air High Line, an urban park built on an old freight line overlooking the Hudson River, which he describes as an ideal venue for springtime clothes. Fast-forward fashion: Spring catwalk shows begin 2012-09-06T14:06:14Z

The compression of time intensifies the imagery’s color and texture as we travel from day to night, rural to urban, and make stops almost everywhere in between. Meditations on southern California's water lifeline 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Guirgis has a tremendous ear for the poetry and profanity of urban speech, in artfully earthy dialogue that both masks and reveals. Gritty tale of faith, redemption and prison in 'Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train' 2012-06-21T20:29:06Z

Mr. Oskolkov-Tsentsiper said plans are afoot to turn Gorky Park and three adjacent parks into a super-park — along the lines of New York’s Central Park — that would change central Moscow’s urban landscape. Architecture: A Warmer, Friendler Gorky Park 2011-10-20T11:59:51Z

Mr. Mack’s guitar work combined the harsh attack of urban blues with the frenetic tempos of rock-and-roll. Lonnie Mack, guitarist and singer who influenced blues and rock acts, dies at 74 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

She transformed streets and freeway offramps with palm trees, turf and animals, predicting the current craze for parklets and urban agriculture. The Bay Citizen: California?s 1970s Conceptual Art Comes Home to Berkeley Museum of Art 2012-03-02T00:41:07Z

But he’s had positive reactions to “Hillbilly Elegy” from both white blue-collar readers and from the urban educated class he moves through now. Everyone is reading books trying to explain Trump voters 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

Such looks “are my idea of urban armor protective cocooning,” he said. New York Fashion Week’s Under-the-Radar Talents 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

This year’s official Republican Party platform explicitly criticizes the “urban vision of dense housing and government transit,” calling it “social engineering.” Do Democrats hate cities? 2012-09-08T17:00:00Z

One offered a workshop for an itinerant cabinet maker, enabling whoever operated it to transform urban detritus into furniture. Planning for the future: how design students got serious 2010-07-13T13:18:00Z

State funding disproportionately favors coastal communities and major urban centers like Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, she said. ‘The Cheech,’ a Game Changer for Chicano Art, Opens in Riverside 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

There were the Guantánamo-like cells at headquarters, the tense urban warfare, the National Guard troops stretched to the breaking point. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Recap: I Saw the Devil's Face 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

It also connects L.A. to an expanding conversation about the future of urban highways across the country. A colorful vision for the 2 Freeway spur, remade as elevated park 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

The first leg of that relay, Drabelle avers, was run by Frederick Law Olmsted — the same Olmsted who “magicked” the makeover of Central Park and other urban oases. Review | How did our national parks come to be? A new book explores their rocky start. 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

“It’s not the solution to every urban water problem,” says Rohmer. This Floating City May Be The Future of Coastal Living 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Maybe to some, but declaring so as fact misses the weird friction that truly defines urban cool. Houston is not cool 2012-07-30T20:15:00Z

A city’s urban history as a backdrop for social unrest. Roundup: Dallas urbanism and the shootings, a graffitist apologizes, essays on gentrification 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

While the novel maps Shirley’s obsessive searching within a gray urban grid, its real journey is subterranean, taking the form of peregrinations through her jumbled psyche. Her Lover May Not Exist, but Her Doubts About the Patriarchy Are Real 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

A particularly incisive commentary on the relationship between social unrest and urban transformation was provided this week by the Dutch architectural historian Wouter Vanstiphout, who is currently researching a book on the subject. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-08-12T14:57:47Z

For instance, while urban planning is concerned with tree-planting for aesthetics, using our model, the choice of trees could be those species that provide multiple functions. Nigeria’s street food adds to the plastic problem — green leaves offer a solution 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

"It was a huge surprise," recalled Bloomsbury's urban art specialist Mary McCarthy. Damien Hirst doodles put up for auction 2010-10-17T19:12:00Z

According to the program notes each installment “re-imagines itself through dialogues with civil engineering and urban planning, computer science and artificial intelligence, aerospace and astronautics.” | ?World of Wires': ?World of Wires? at the Kitchen ? Review 2012-01-16T22:46:30Z

His urban vistas show skies streaked with industrial smoke that may be the residue of another incendiary confrontation. Miss Bala: Beauty and the Beasts in a Mexican Drug War 2012-01-19T19:15:02Z

Its southern facade will overlook a new urban square about the same size as Red Square in Moscow. In Kazakhstan, a Shimmering Skyline on the Steppe 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Last year, the Queens Quay on Lake Ontario reopened, part of the largest continuing urban revitalization project in North America. 52 Places to Go in 2016 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The Whitney quickly took on the heterogenous characteristics of America itself, particularly its urban side. Don’t be aloof 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Welcome, if you dare, to Wilson’s portrait of the urban 1980s — and newcomers to the Wilson project are especially warned. The ’80s are back with a vengeance in Wilson’s ‘King Hedley II’ at Arena 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Here are urban folk-memories from an age before the triumph of the paste-up poster, cinema, magazine, telly and internet advertising. Our vanishing historic adverts 2010-04-11T18:00:00Z

Among the check cashing locations, pawn shops and bodegas that lined the commercial thoroughfare when she was growing up, she said, were street vendors selling an assortment of books — from urban fiction to dictionaries. Coming Soon to the Bronx, a Long Overdue Book Festival 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

Part urban travelogue, part first-person essay, the show is, at its core, an anthropological exploration of people — most often New Yorkers — in their native habitats. John Wilson Reveals the Absurd Poetry of New York 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

Unlike the chiseled tales of her contemporary Raymond Carver, Berlin’s beautiful, rangy prose builds into unpredictable shapes that speak of the sprawling rural and urban western and South American landscapes that fueled her imagination. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Eckhart, meanwhile, said he was convinced to do the movie by Liebesman, who showed him a presentation involving soldiers doing urban combat in Fallujah to show how he wanted to shoot the movie. "Battle: Los Angeles" wows Comic-Con crowd 2010-07-23T03:31:00Z

TUE Seattle Architecture Foundation stories of the design process for small urban parks, 6:30 p.m. Community calendar 2012-11-07T21:54:04Z

We found both rural and urban streams have high levels of Escherichia coli, a bacterium found in human or animal feces and commonly identified in freshwater and coastal environments in Aotearoa. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in New Zealand's wild cockles and watercress puts people at risk 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z

But, like Daleks encountering a staircase, they need help when they hit a slope, or a constrained urban site, or the individual needs of particular schools. Architects do matter, Mr Gove 2011-03-06T00:09:40Z

Time outdoors, spent among friends, enjoying a Saturday night on one of the most beautiful spots in the modern urban world is never a total wash-out. REVIEW: Great Chicago Fire Festival by Redmoon 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

This guerilla-landmarked site was one of nine stops on Gay Bars That Are Gone, a free tour offered as part of Jane’s Walk, which celebrates urban activist Jane Jacobs each May. You Could Be in a Gay Bar Right Now and Not Even Know It 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Alpha, considered the father of Ivorian reggae, takes the stage in Abidjan clad in a shimmering pink suit, golden tie and Panama hat of an urban dandy. Ivorian reggae singers bury rivalry for "peace" tour 2012-11-06T16:18:30Z

The other boy, Arthur Agee, has made his own educational documentary called Hoop Reality to stress the importance of school to urban youngsters. Trailer trash 2011-08-13T23:06:21Z

We jumped from the gritty tejo courts to hip record bars, via an urban beer garden, basement drinking dens and a wild drag club. Bogotá, Colombia’s banging capital 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

Rauschenberg soon achieved stardom with an art that was a whole bend more urban, abrupt and grungy than anything Pollock and De Kooning had come up with. Cy Twombly and Nicolas Poussin: the odd couple 2011-07-06T15:00:01Z

Kenn Taylor is a writer and journalist based in Liverpool with a particular interest in community, culture and the urban environment. The breathtaking potential of Liverpool (and Wirral) Waters 2013-03-07T17:00:00Z

I was raised in a poor part of Pasadena, in Los Angeles, during the 1980s and I was always around urban culture. ILL-Abilities: the b-boy supercrew taking on the able-bodied 2013-05-02T16:32:51Z

Who better, then, than Mr. Russell Beale to portray one of the more faceless figures of urban life, a taxi driver? | 'Bluebird': He?ll Take You Anywhere You Want to Go 2011-08-23T02:01:00Z

Military drumming, marching figures in urban guerilla gear, a stage full of khaki/olive clad funkateers pledging allegiance to the Funkadelica flag. George Clinton: 'Even now the music scares us sometimes' - a classic interview from the vaults 2012-06-26T17:00:00Z

In poorer, urban areas, residents were generally welcoming of the intervention. Invasive mosquito that calls the U.S. home is a known Zika carrier 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

And into the irrepressible experiment in urban revitalization that is Baltimore’s arts district today. Can the arts save Baltimore? 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

Fisher runs a music collective called 1000 Stations and writes songs exclusively about urban rail systems. Setting urban transport to music - the strains of trains 2012-11-27T15:00:00Z

It was a day of urban riding, part of a day anyway, something I haven’t done, really, the entire trip. In Transit Blog: In Wisconsin and Minnesota, in Good Company 2011-09-19T15:49:50Z

Another urban legend floating around: You shouldn’t run your disposal while the dishwasher is operating. Six common mistakes you make when operating your garbage disposal 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

As immigrants’ numbers and their disproportionate support for egalitarian, government-led urban policies increase, they may provide the biggest political challenge to suburban strongholds of the New Right and its segregationist legacies. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z

One, in May and June, explored ground zero with a gestalt therapist; another, led by an urban designer, considers homesickness. Where the Sidewalks End, and the City (Really) Begins 2010-09-10T04:30:00Z

But those behind the project say the site has always been more than a public park, and that the undertaking is Europe’s largest urban development project. A Music Museum Opens in the Heart of Hungary’s Culture Wars 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

Lily Kwong is a 22-year-old sociology and urban studies major at Columbia, who is also a sometime fashion blogger and Elite model. T Magazine: 'Girl on Bear Rug,' (Lily Kwong, c. 2011) 2011-01-18T20:15:32Z

But though far fewer are being killed, black men are still dying at alarming rates in the toughest urban pockets. Murder, she wrote 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

The show will also include large-scale urban installations by four different architecture studios. | The Biennial of the Americas Turns Denver Into a Giant Art Fair 2013-07-15T16:37:10Z

Much of the action takes place on the rooftops of London, where urban climbers perform feats to rival those of their counterparts in the Himalayas. ‘Dark Corners,’ Ruth Rendell’s final mystery novel, ranks among her best 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

As for urban experiences, I am fascinated by Mexico City and can’t wait to go back, as there is a very inspiring energy within this bustling mega-city. | Paul Kominek 2011-07-15T12:00:17Z

The show speaks to a very specific demographic of young, urban, black professionals. ‘Insecure’ Season 2 Finale: Prentice Penny on Issa, Lawrence, Safe Sex and Narrative Swerves 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

“Spending my entire life in urban cities, I was somewhat surprised that not only does this competition still exist but a career in auctioneering is a thriving profession,” he said. The Hypnotizing Chants of Champion Livestock Auctioneers 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z