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Helping inner cities Since the 1930s, mortgage lenders had denied predominantly Black city neighborhoods access to financing.—
Stephen Mihm,
The Mercury News,
15 Feb. 2025 -
In fact, my mother's high school, Eastside, is featured in Lean On Me, the Black film classic that details the true story of Paterson's own Principal Joe Clark, an educator who went to extreme lengths to help improve the test scores and livelihoods of Black students at the inner city school.—
Dria James,
refinery29.com,
12 Feb. 2025
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Initially designed as a garden city with villas, reminiscent of those eastern European cities lost in prior decades, Ankara symbolized the birth of a European country from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire—in the middle of Anatolia.—
Soner Cagaptay,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Feb. 2024
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Lee Kuan Yew, the city’s first prime minister, launched the idea of Singapore as a garden city back in 1967.—
CNT Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Sep. 2022
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Definitely going for the highest quality audiophile sound experience while still being suited for a small downtown Toronto home.—
Liza Lentini,
SPIN,
21 Feb. 2025
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In a sometimes vivid and sometimes dense press conference in downtown LA, Nathan Hochman revealed his office is opposing efforts by the siblings to have their life sentences for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents challenged and given new trials.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Core city.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/core%20city. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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