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...problem is that creating something like a metro-regional consciousness runs up against middle-class autonomy in all it forms: economic liberty, local political autonomy, Reagan-Bush federalism, and all their corollaries...
...disoriented? More to the point, how can the French feel lost when France has emerged as the master builder of modern Europe? Not since the mid-19th century, when Baron Haussmann thrust his boulevards through rancid slums, has Paris experienced such a fever of construction and renewal. With a Metro that works, streets kept remarkably clean by 5,000 green-uniformed sweepers, parks planted like Impressionist paintings and bakeries galore, Paris may well represent the apogee of civilized city living -- for those who can afford the rent. Yet not since Parisians finally ousted Haussmann for his arrogant, free-spending ways...
...then, the swamp, once called Mosquito County, has become the top commercial tourist destination in the world. Currently it draws 13.3 million people a year, up from 4.6 million in 1980. As a shrine, it is surpassed only by Kyoto, Mecca and the Vatican. The 2,558-sq.-mi. metro area has the largest concentration of hotel rooms in the country (76,300), with the highest occupancy rate (79%). More than 18 million passengers arrive at Orlando International Airport every year, three times the number entering 10 years ago -- and, if the planners are right, half the number who will...
...airport around the city is being started just as the head of Disney Attractions, Dick Nunis, is beginning to talk about the need for a second such artery. And so far, no one can agree on where, or even whether, to build a public transportation system for the metro area...
...editor Adam Moss, the former managing editor of Seven Days, a defunct New York weekly that was popular among the yuppie Manhattanites whom the Times must hold as readers. The hope is that Moss -- "He's not a news person," grumbles a staff member -- will enliven the paper's Metro section, which has become something of a showcase for good writing...