Urban dance is often regarded as a new phenomenon, but hip hop's roots reach further back than the 1980s. Zach Morris, a choreographer and Inter/National Programs Associate with New York City's Dance Theater Workshop (he coordinates cultural artist exchanges and residencies), recently set out...

When Saddam Hussein sidekick Tariq Aziz was captured recently, a casual reader scanning the coverage could be forgiven for mistaking the English word "urbane" for the title of Aziz's Iraqi government job. Almost everywhere you saw Aziz's name, the word "urbane" was nearby....

It's a frosted Sunday night in downtown Detroit. Further along the block from a musical production of Sesame Street Live sits a 3,000 seater called the State Theatre. Here, hordes of chain-smoking trailer-park thugs, junior pimps, name-brand-sporting Arab princes-and the tube-top-wrapped young ladies who love...

Storyline: With Urban Chaos, you play as Nick Mason head of a special unit called T-Zero, a task force that has been put together to help stop terrorist forces - and in this case, street gangs - that are trying to take over the city....

Examines the perspectives that co-exist and interact to create an ultimate urban experience. Describes contemporary city planning. Addresses the many long-range social and economic decisions that must be made.