Word: megalopolises
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Swinger & Bum. After the Updikes moved to Ipswich in 1957, John found himself more than ever in thrall to his homeward-looking vision. So many short stories flowed from his reservoir of nostalgia that he collected eleven of the best in a volume called Olinger Stories-Olinger being "audibly a...
New York's city hall has been the political graveyard of virtually every man who presided there. Its present landlord may be the exception. On the eve of his second anniversary in office, John Vliet Lindsay is still threshing out the megaproblems of megalopolis, yet refuses to sink below...
Since Reston's construction began in 1962, the town has been severely criticized by the academic community of city planners. They claim that Lake Anne Village, the first of Reston's seven projected sub-towns to be completed, is too picturesque in its setting among the rolling Virginia hills and...
City planners see Reston as an oddity, an inappropriate regression to rural Americana. A planned community cannot be a model for megalopolis when it deliberately keeps its population density at 13 persons per acre. Wood and trees, they claim, are irrelevant media for the city of the future. And the...
Producers Benjamin and Kleinerman first envisioned the program as a limited project of perhaps six specials, but found after four months of research that they had material enough for a full series. Now scheduled for at least 16 segments, the program will explore oceanography, the megalopolis, transportation, housing, computers, demography...