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For years, New York City-like almost every other metropolis-has spread relentlessly into the surrounding countryside. Meanwhile 167 valuable acres of land were all but going to waste right in the heart of the city. Last week a plan to devote that space to a new kind of big...
¶ An aerial photograph of Auschwitz extermination camp that takes the breath away with its immensity: mile on mile of barracks, a metropolis of death.
They are not the work of crackpots but of reputable men, some of them geniuses. Leonardo himself designed an "ideal city," and Piranesi planned a "cultural center" of moats and courtyards that seemed to fit inside each other like Chinese boxes. More recently, the visionaries have been apt to reflect...
The wreath that rings every U.S. metropolis is a green garland of place names and people collectively called Suburbia. It weaves through the hills beyond the cities, marches across flatlands that once were farms and pastures, dips into gullies and woodlands, straddles the rocky hillocks and surrounds the lonesome crossroads...
Metropolis, Ill.