It’s clear we need a new lexicon for emerging urban forms that are neither urban nor suburban in character. Yet when you raise that issue, you elicit some strongly held views — most of them negative — about whether anything other than a “real city” with its bad sections, panhandlers, and industrial areas can qualify as urban. I feel it is increasingly difficult to make such distinctions. This is particularly true as we observe the rapidly changing character of inner-ring suburbs in particular,

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Sharp will post its first loss in more than 50 years for its March 2009 fiscal year and plans to cut 1,500 temporary jobs because of falling demand for LCD televisions. As Bloomberg notes, Sharp now expects a loss for the year of about 100 billion yen, or $1.1 billion. Analysts had been expecting a of 57.1 billion yen. The Sharp warning is the latest in a series of cautionary statements and job cuts in the Japanese electronics industry in the face of softening consumer spending. Panasonic ear