Word: metropolises
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In the 1920s, New York let Robert Moses reshape the urban landscape by creating the parkway and the superhighway. Others imitated that city's highway system, whatever its flaws, because Moses had designed the first successful plans to move cars through a metropolis.
"I'm the first member of the family to actually leave the nest," she says. "I'm really psyched about living in New York. Derby is hardly a booming metropolis, so it should be an interesting experience."
New York City is in a class by itself. Last year the metropolis had 547 water-main breaks that cost $60 million to repair. Potholes and other road defects prompted 1,941 property damage claims totaling $20.9 million. The ramshackle subway system is notoriously unreliable. Three weeks ago, a train...
There are those who would have us believe that L.A. is the happy zenith of our Westward Ho, but the truth of the matter remains that the city stands as positive proof that William Bradford was right when he suspected we were bound for horror from the moment we hit...
WITH FAST, INTUITIVE brush strokes Carlos Diegues" Bye Bye Brazil captures the spirit of an entire subcontinent in the flux of modernization. Rambling from the dusty old town of Pirhanhas in the Northeast where the facades of buildings look like pastel stagesets, to the parched hopelessness of the plains, down...