Word: megalopolises
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The cops in Fuzz are the Keystone variety: louts and lovable fumblers who succeed at their work mostly out of dumb luck. The precinct has been transplanted from McBain's unnamed megalopolis to Boston for reasons that have little to do with milieu; the producers found it too expensive...
Still, there is a growing confluence of interests, particularly within Europe's industrialized heartland. After World War II, many countries in the area underwent the shattering upheaval of a switchover from rural-to urban-dominated societies. At the same time, they experienced a baby boom that has given West...
The set is a conversation piece all by itself. Manhattanites spend more time each day traveling vertically than any other people in the world. Designer Boris Aronson has embodied this in a kind of skyscraper-without-walls, a giant urban Junglegym with rising and descending elevators and the metallic, glassy...
Challenge to Boosterism. The need to balance population growth against its social cost will wrench the thinking of bankers, storekeepers and politicians. Slower growth for Houston, Akron or Miami? The idea violates all the tenets of local boosterism. A tremendous amount of entrepreneurial effort is harnessed to the expectation of...
In their passion for special and often quite obscure causes, Californians tend to ignore broader and more clamorous social issues. Though long among the nation's most ardent conservationists, they have nonetheless allowed untold pollution and desecration of their land, air, waters and wildlife. The nearly five million automobiles that...