Word: metropolises
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Such is the utterly subjective nature of home that the very word must fetch up a distinct and unique image and sensibility in every person. And indeed home can be many things: a house, a town, a neighborhood, a state, a country, a room. Home can be wherever one feels...
Boston, perhaps more than any other American metropolis, is a city whose politicians and bureaucrats are kept honest by the press--a city where investigative reporting has a tangible, healthy influence on day-to-day policy-making. Just by publishing daily, the Herald keeps the level of this influence high...
The idea behind the project, Denes says, was to devise "an intrusion of the country into the metropolis, the world's richest real estate. To grow a wheatfield on it, seemingly such a waste of precious space, is to create a powerful paradox: the congestion of the city of...
When Cortés and his fellow conquistadors first glimpsed Tenochtitlán, they had every reason to be astonished. Built on an island in Lake Texcoco, it was a thriving metropolis with a population of perhaps 200,000, larger than any European city at the time. It was divided...
"The Port of New York became my Walden Pond," Lewis Mumford recalls in this luminous autobiography. It still is. With unflagging energy and unfailing memory, Mumford, 86, assumes the tone of an urban Thoreau, ransacking the familiar for overlooked truths. His principal turf is the city; his main object of...