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...Rudolph Wittenberg, Swan’s father, was the scion of a cultured Jewish family in Berlin and a writer, who used to read out chapters of his novels on the radio....
...The flat roofs of Middle Eastern and Asian cities constituted another layer of urban domesticity, a horizontal plane of sleep from Cairo to Kolkata....
...Ironically, the Townhouse most closely resembles the work of US architect Paul Rudolph (1918-97) much of whose best work is now being ruthlessly demolished....
...“I went to Yale because of the people there: the new Dean was Paul Rudolph, who had pioneered an extraordinary new architecture in Florida....
...David Dinkins, its first, served a single, unsatisfying term before being displaced by Rudolph Giuliani, a federal prosecutor who promised law and order....
...“The transformation of lower Manhattan was one of the great legacies of Bloomberg,” says Mitchell Moss, an urban studies professor at New York University. “Downtown’s recovery is due to his vision.”...
...All were designed to give dignity, solidity and urban presence to a newly educated, suddenly more affluent working class. It didn’t last....
...These are not particularly high-profile projects, but they exert a major impact on their particular urban surroundings. “What we’re doing is not the norm anywhere,” Fretton says....
...Paul Rudolph’s Temple Street Parking Garage in New Haven, for instance, is a modernist masterpiece. Some of the best have already gone....
...Plagued for decades by high crime and urban decay, at first sight it appears to lack the typical New England charm of other cities that dot Connecticut’s eastern shore along Long Island Sound....
...On September 10 2001, I would have described myself as disappointed with Rudolph Giuliani, the mayor of city....
...Serious attempts to construct a golf course did not begin until the 1990s under the mayoral administration of Rudolph Giuliani....
...But it was his support for Manhattan’s High Line, an urban park on a disused rail track, that he counted among his best achievements....
...leaders such as Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York....
...The information circulates along the plane’s aisle like radio-trottoir (informal communication networks used primarily in urban Africa)....
...Nevertheless, Mr Bloomberg has at the very least shown that his predecessor Rudolph Giuliani was hardly sui generis when it came to cutting crime....
...Under mayor Rudolph Giuliani, New York turned around its crime problem. Shintaro Ishihara, the four-term rightwing governor of Tokyo, introduced a mandatory carbon trading scheme....
...This teenager, yo-yoing through urban canyons in his skin-tight red, is as amazed as we by his new aerial wizardries....
...Rudolph Penner, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute and former head of the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office, says: “The bad thing about it is that you could end up giving a windfall to people who...
...Rudolph Valentino’s The Sheikh (1921) and Blood and Sand (1922) set a taste for the Islamic style that found expression in an emerging building type, the cinema....
...Whether it is Mitt Romney, Rudolph Giuliani or Mr McCain, all three can plausibly dissociate themselves from Mr Bush....
...It is the solid, competent, often very fine buildings that form the urban background that are most in danger, and hardest to preserve....
...Gerald Rudolph Ford, who died on Tuesday at the age of 93, may not have been the first American to have the presidency thrust upon him by act of man or god....
...Lord Foster credits two contrasting architectural influences: Paul Rudolph, “the quintessential American, the doer” and Serge Chermayeff “the European intellectual thinker”....
...FT: A lot of credit is given to Rudolph Giuliani [Former New York Mayor from 1994 to 2001] and Mayor Bloomberg for curbing organised crime there....
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