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Called BMW Guggenheim Lab, the partnership is a six-year-long program designed to help architects, engineers, artists and scientists design new models for urban life worldwide.
FORBES: BMW, Guggenheim to Design Urban Future
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It's a new chapter for urban life in America.
WSJ: Stopping Urban Crime Without Jail Time
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When HIV arrived in Leopoldville-Kinshasa, it was one of the burgeoning cities of late colonial Africa, rich with a new kind of urban life and music like this, recorded in the mid-50s.
NPR: Origin of AIDS Linked to Colonial Practices in Africa
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But the exhibition also focuses on the specific innovations developed at Uruk and shows how they often arose in response to new challenges posed by urban life.
WSJ: The Ur-Metropolis | Uruk | Pergamon Museum | By A.J. Goldmann
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"It's filled with gritty buildings, has a rough texture and all of the amenities, which make it attractive for night life, " said Mitchell Moss, a New York University urban planning professor.
WSJ: Complaints Over Hell's Kitchen Bars
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Its goal is to explore new ideas, experiment, and ultimately the create forward-thinking solutions for urban life.
FORBES: Three Great Examples of Shared Value in Action
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With that comes opportunities of great interventions, new projects, rethinking urban transportation, creating vast new park systems, and experimenting with urban design strategies that might improve the quality of urban life.
BBC: Viewpoint: What makes an ideal city?
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MST's political success is stimulating a new migration to the countryside, as the children of those who moved to the cities find that urban life offers only unemployment.
ECONOMIST: Brazil
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With such diverse sound effects and samples as frogs croaking, children playing, side walk preachers preaching, and a New York subway door closing, The Education of the Individual Soul is tied to both nature and to everyday urban life, giving it the qualities of a sort of ethereal and mystical modern-day fairytale.
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