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...organization in agriculture. Sofia is striking for its many sumptuously planted parks, its wide-domed churches brightly lit at night and the yellow cobblestones that pave the main boulevards. City residents, proud of their distinctive cobblestones, have successfully persuaded the municipal authorities to abandon plans to replace them with asphalt. One woman journalist explained, "We couldn't let them tear up our streets," adding, "after all, they're paved in gold...
...whose layout is so elaborate that the price can be no lower than $25, the strip without a doubt still represents one of the ugliest environments that has ever existed. It is easy for Venturi to avoid questions such as why acres of landscape have to be covered with asphalt for parking lots, why the construction of such enormous signs as overt displays of competition for the consumer's money, and why such dependence on the car when parking lots can be made to seem like Versailles and gambling halls like the Vatican. Indeed it is the commercial interests...
...many parts of the country, agricultural acreage is taxed so heavily that farmers are being forced to sell out to developers. Thus much of the nation's bottom land is now sprouting condominiums rather than corn, and asphalt rather than asparagus. Massachusetts residents are presented with a solution: a proposal to tax agricultural and horticultural lands not on the fair market value (what it is worth to developers) but on the agricultural and horticultural value (what it is worth to the grower). The tax relief would apply to tracts larger than five acres that have been under cultivation...
...thick that skywriters engrave their words with hammer and chisel. Population is so dense that the authorities sponsor a killathon, in which patriotic citizens dispatch themselves in diverse ways. The last California redwood has been replaced by a plastic memorial. Prize dogs compete not for ribbons, but for virgin asphalt on which to relieve themselves...
...cars on Western highways these days must have writers of one sort or other behind the wheel. There is getting to be rather a literary traffic tangle in which only the best drivers-Joan Didion on the Los Angeles freeways, Ross Macdonald in the canyons, Larry McMurtry on the asphalt-beribboned deserts-can make the trip worth...