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For centuries major cities have been enhanced by their universities. These institutions have attracted skilled people, scholarship, arts and culture, as well as enterprise and innovation. In this way the partnership between cities and universities has in countless places helped to create prosperity

to ensure the Centre City is a vibrant and caring place where Calgarians want to live, work, and play. Many other organizations are also taking an active role in creating the Centre City that Calgarians want. This series of Centre City Action Profiles highlights some of the many other local projects

How quickly things change! Not too many months ago, most individuals would contend that rural America was undergoing an economic boom. No doubt, the economic expansion touching our nation over the course of the 1990s was being felt even among small towns and cities in rural

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essential natural services, namely healthy food and clean water to both rural and urban communities. In effect, rural areas serve as a ‘supermarket ’ which provides nourishment for the inhabitants of the city and fuels industry. Furthermore, boosting food production through commercially intensive

Drawing the city is a proposal for an ethnographic research project in Rio de Janeiro. I begin by mapping the production of an international group calling themselves ‘urban sketchers, ’ whose collective project extols drawing as a form of looking, knowing and registering the experience of living

This article focuses on different social practices and representations undertaken by youth affiliated to the hip hop movement in the city of São Paulo. I reconstruct the trajectory of this movement to which rap is affiliated and analyze relationships between making music and new forms of urban

. Innovating companies are adapting to the demise of large corporate basic research laboratories by using their own research instead. Growth in university patenting is also striking, and universities have become dominant patentees in a few large, economically vibrant cities. The importance of universities

development activity. It is intended to provide information about our regulatory processes and help expedite your project. Omaha is a vibrant city that seeks both new construction and the renovation of our existing structures. The Developer’s Guide is part of an effort to assist you with your development