Word: megalopolises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Headed for Megalopolis. Universities that have pioneered the cluster concept seem pleased with their progress. Wayne State University's Monteith College started the current trend in 1959. The University of the Pacific, which opened its first "college within a college" in 1962, will have three by next year. Two...
Today the city itself, with a population of 2,800,000, rambles through 469 sq. mi. of desert, mountain and valley. But the city is only the core of a vast, amoeba-like mass that makes up the Los Angeles metropolitan area, a 5,000-sq. mi. tract that includes...
Johnson's Great Society is in large measure based on belated governmental recognition of the complex needs of an urban nation. Indeed, the President himself, as James MacGregor Burns points out, has become the "Chief Executive of Metropolis." Not for 50 years has the heartland of America been the...
Because of this hostility-and the fact that the majority of top U.S. humorists are Jewish-Jews figure prominently among the dark breed that has been operating as "black humorists," an easily applied label that sticks to those who examine the megaton-megalopolis age and find it funny only in...
The developers' idea was that the old wanted a place in the sun, and large tracts of desert and seaside bloomed with the new "villages." The sign on the gate said, "No children, no dogs"; there were shuffleboard courts, hobby shops, a bingo game every evening, and to many...