Word: megalopolises
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Sniping at Los Angeles for its smog, sprawl and gridlocked freeways is a time-honored pastime in the West. Traditionally, the gibing has been mixed with an abiding envy of the California megalopolis' trend-setting dynamism. But lately no amount of envy -- or imitation -- seems enough to offset the vitriol...
The people of Mexico City call it nata, or scum. It is the sickly brown cloud that stubbornly hangs over the megalopolis, home to 23 million people. Composed primarily of carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and ozone, the smog has made the winter of 1991 the most toxic in...
The survey will probably blast many viewers' assumptions about what Japanese art should look like. Forget about tributes to Mount Fuji or poetic evocations < of the changing seasons. These members of what one Japanese critic has called "the post-Hiroshima generation" have grown up in a technology-driven, fiercely consumerist...
Clay Center, like thousands of other small communities from Maine to New Mexico, is struggling to avoid becoming a ghost town. The population of rural America is being sapped by an epic postwar migration to cities and suburbs, a trend that has accelerated in the past decade. Each year since...
The complex characters that Wolfe so painstakingly describes are constricted by a system of emptiness and simplicity. The public life of a megalopolis like New York cannot do justice to the humanity of its constituents. The best and brightest, the Masters of the Universe, are gobbled up by the system...