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Hiroshima officials struck on the idea of reinventing the city. They proposed the construction of a large peace memorial as the city's new anchor. The memorial eventually became the Peace Memorial Park, a graceful 30-acre site not far from ground zero, designed by the late famed Japanese architect...
Be clear about this: no one is giving away choice property. The typical tract runs one-third of an acre in a new subdivision in which streets and utility lines have been laid. The parcels range in value from $2,000 to $20,000, depending on the town. But it...
This modern-day Homestead Act is a pale version of the one authorized by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, when settlers were given 160-acre tracts to encourage building out the frontier with farms and ranches. Today there is no central authority; the programs are initiated and run locally. Yet Washington...
It isn't a new idea. Locally organized land giveaways have been tried sporadically for years, without much success. Typically, a town springs to action only when there is talk of shutting down the school. Yet by then the town is already on the slippery slope. In July 1981, Harley...
O'Connor's independent and pragmatic idea of what America should be was forged in stages. The first took place on the Lazy B, a nearly 200,000-acre cattle ranch in the high desert on the Arizona--New Mexico border. The nearest town was 35 miles away, and the...