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Hang the Cost. Brasilia is a skyscraper city sprung metropolis-size from a broad plateau where, just 43 months ago, Kubitschek recalls, "there was only solitude and a jaguar screaming in the night." It was thrown up at a hang-the-cost speed that wrenched the whole country's...
Creature of Habit. The problems that the commuter poses to the nation's cities are great and prickly-but they are not unique. In the 2nd century, the satirist Juvenal graphically described the swarming streets of ancient Rome. They were thick with litter bearers, chariot jams, and furious drivers...
The Newcomers, third volume in a unique study of metropolitan New York by the Graduate School of Public Administration, reaches book stands today. In it, Oscar Handlin, professor of History, assesses the position of Negroes and Puerto Ricans in a changing metropolis.
On further inquiry, however, among the debris of the landslide were found a Hellenistic chamber tomb, a Roman wall-painted chamber, two Lydian town walls, and a room of the seventh century B.C. These three Lydian finds represent three distinctly different phases of Lydian civilization and so will be immensely...
The enormous size of the urban aggregation of Lydian Sardis suggests a rapid state of organization in the metropolis. After a decline during Roman occupation, the large city revived, as determined from the Byzantine shops of the fifth century A.D., and remained prosperous until foreign invasions in the seventh century...