(Encyclopedia) city government, political administration of urban areas.
The English tradition of incorporating urban units (cities, boroughs, villages, towns) and allowing them freedom in most local…
(Encyclopedia) megalopolismegalopolismĕgəlŏpˈlĭs [key] [Gr.,=great city], a group of densely populated metropolitan areas that combine to form an urban complex. It was first used in its modern sense…
(Encyclopedia) Barberini, FrancescoBarberini, Francescofränchāsˈkō bärbārēˈnē [key], 1597–1679, Italian prelate and Orientalist, a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the nephew of Urban VIII.…
It Just Proves There's Someone for EveryonePronoun ReferenceIntroductionHow's That Again?It Just Proves There's Someone for EveryoneA Match Made in Writer's Heaven To prevent unclear pronoun…
(Encyclopedia) gentrification, the rehabilitation and settlement of decaying urban areas by middle- and high-income people. Beginning in the 1970s and 80s, higher-income professionals, drawn by low-…
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Clinton AdministrationBorn: 6/11/1947Birthplace: San Antonio, Texas Henry Cisneros served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1993 to 1997…
(Encyclopedia) Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton), 1874–1936, English author. Conservative, even reactionary, in his thinking, Chesterton was a convert (1922) to Roman Catholicism and its…
(Encyclopedia) Lansdowne, Henry Charles Keith Petty Fitzmaurice, 5th marquess of, 1845–1927, British stateman. A Liberal until 1886, he joined the Conservatives because of Gladstone's Irish policy.…
(Encyclopedia) Bennett, James Gordon, 1795–1872, American newspaper proprietor, b. Keith, Scotland. He came to America in 1819 and won a reputation as Washington correspondent of the New York…
