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...larger culture, Levitt's achievement was contested ground. Levittown entered 20th century folklore as the place where democratic equality edged into an unnerving conformity. By stamping whole townships onto old farmland, Levitt brought the machine into the garden in a very literal way. Unlike the automobile or the radio, the home was an ancient possession, a thing too intimate to be mass-produced without offending notions of Yankee individuality that were already under intense pressure from modernity. And as Levittown matured, suburbia itself began to look like humanity at room temperature, a place where the true countryside was denatured, while...
...course, and Walton hit the road to open stores wherever he saw opportunity. He would buzz towns in his low-flying airplane studying the lay of the land. When he had triangulated the proper intersection between a few small towns, he would touch down, buy a piece of farmland at that intersection and order up another Wal-Mart store, which his troops could roll out like...
...main value is the maintenance of biological diversity," said Wilson. "When you cut a natural forest and replace it with farmland or a tree farm, you go from thousands of flowering plant species...to perhaps one tree species and a tiny number of organisms associated with...
...landscape management, the Arboretum established the Institute for Cultural Landscape Studies last fall. The Institute supports management of landscapes with a history of human use by integrating research and experience from historic preservation, natural areas conservation and land use planning. It is currently working on historic plant inventories, farmland conservation in New England, managing park-neighborhood relations in urban areas and public-private partnerships for cultural landscapes...
Occasional British-style tabloid feeding frenzies and endless controversy over its educational merit have left the folks in Teletubbyland--actually six acres of farmland outside Stratford-upon-Avon--more than a little press shy. But TIME was recently permitted a rare look at the filming of two sure-to-be-classic episodes: "Don't Pull That Lever, Dipsy" and "Laa-Laa Has an Orange Ball." As Tubby body parts roll by in wheelbarrows and crew members carefully place live rabbits and racks of fake flowers on the Day-Glo green Home Hill, Davenport cautions, "There's a lot of intervention...