Word: neighborhoods
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...India's cities. The money - for roads, sewer lines and mass-transit systems - comes with some very important strings attached. To get the money, state governments have to devolve more power to cities; and city governance would go hyper-local, giving some control over the spending to new, elected neighborhood councils. (See pictures of the tempestuous Nehru-Gandhi dynasty of India...
...India - including its villages - needs cities that work. Ramanathan, for one, is trying to organize neighborhood-watch committees in Mumbai, an effort slowed considerably by the resistance of the local police. To revitalize India's cities, the country needs a new vision of itself - and a government committed to the hard work of making it real...
Though he doesn't know it, shop manager Zhu Baohua is on the front lines of the battle to reform the global economy. Zhu's three-floor electronics store, crammed with Sony TVs, Motorola cell phones and HP PCs, is located in a nondescript neighborhood in the western Chinese city of Xi'an. Far from China's dynamic coastal manufacturing and financial centers, Xi'an for decades has been an economic backwater known mainly as the home of China's famed terra-cotta warriors, reminders of the city's glory days as a capital of ancient dynasties...
...Beef-brisket noodles are a Hong Kong specialty, and many say that this neighborhood stalwart (21 Gough Street) serves up the city's best. Brave the inevitable queues to sample the rich, deeply flavorful beef broth, the firm, springy egg noodles and the deliciously tender, stewed-for-hours brisket, which yields to the gentlest bite...
...crime and corruption, helped or hurt America's perception of inner cities? It was a very fine line that we walked. There were scenes of black-on-black violence that I was apprehensive about. I thought, Are we showing the truth, or glorifying what's wrong with the neighborhood...