Word: exurbia
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...benefiting from another trend: the growth of exurbia, as more cities extend their reach into what were once rural areas. The company has more than 500 stores in 34 states yet plans to open 62 new stores this year and 75 in 2006 in such places as Enfield, Conn., and Dundee, Mich., that have proximity to urban areas. Although there's risk in that rapid expansion, CEO Jim Wright says the store growth is a reflection of greater numbers of do-it-yourselfers who want to get back to nature yet still commute to an office. "We are positioned...
FICTION. Neighbors by Thomas Berger. A surreal, slapstick comedy about life in exurbia. Joshua Then and Now by Mordecai Richler. The literary life, the shenanigans of the rich and newly rich, the pains of middle age and the importance of family loyalties, by Canada's most engaging novelist. Loon Lake by E.L. Doctorow. The author of Ragtime plays intricate and haunting blues variations on the American dream during the Great Depression. Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino. One of Italy's best novelists takes time out from his own fiction to become the Brothers Grimm...
...tenth novel Author Thomas Berger claims squatter's rights to the plot of the beleaguered household. Earl Keese, middle-aged and overweight, lives with his wife Enid smack at the end of a cul-de-sac somewhere in exurbia. Their plans for a normal Friday night have been made without reckoning on Harry and Ramona, a younger couple newly ensconced in the only other house on the block. Ramona appears first, while Enid is in the kitchen seeing to supper, and makes some lewd advances toward Earl...
Five years ago, after decades of stunted growth, Maine seemed poised on the edge of the American dream. Oil companies, hunting for ports to accommodate supertankers, were bidding to bring then" business to Maine's deep-water harbors. Land developers were revving up their bulldozers to push exurbia into rural Maine. Scores of urban-weary Americans were bringing skills and capital to Maine as they fled the megalopolis...
...scene is the new exurbia outside Paris, where a saucy mini-gratte-ciel apartment building full of affluent city commuters not only scrapes the sky but rubs nearby villagers and the demoralized peasantry the wrong way. Henri Castang, Freeling's new sleuth, is a low-key public servant who, like Van der Valk, cites Proust and Dickens without sounding pretentious...