Urban division in this case is a measure of government weakness, not ruthless strength.
"I thought it looked really cool," David von Spreckelsen, the president of the New York City division of Toll Brothers City Living, the developer's urban division, said.
For example, Chris Lighty, who runs his own hip-hop record label, Violator Records, and who manages prominent rappers like Busta Rhymes, L. L. Cool J, Q-Tip and Missy (Misdemeanor) Elliott, also oversees the urban division of Michael Ovitz's Artists Management Group.
One of Andre Snr's white colleagues persists in calling him "Dr Dre" and, though he is proud to be appointed the firm's first black Senior VP, Andre soon learns that his boss wants him to head up a new "Urban" division.
People are still buying single-family homes, she said, "but as a company, we've been focusing on our urban division for a while now because that's where things are going really well," and home values are holding up better, too.
As her clients began to expand into film and television, Scott-Young followed them, eventually partnering with the Artist Management Group to head up what was called the "urban" division, and to act as a link between her artists and film, television, commercial, and endorsement deals.
Urban division is a process formed by the reaction of several forces, among which, the role of urban policies in shaping division proves high prominence.
