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Things are winding to a close. Out of the bottom of the barrel comes a coatimundi, looking like a fox that has attended the Harvard Business School. Guinea pigs: Hale starts the bidding at 25? and, working the crowd expertly, talks the price up to $1.50 a head. Sold to...
The new migration has surprised demographers, but it can hardly astonish anyone familiar with U.S. attitudes toward urban existence. Americans have always preferred smaller communities, and did so even during the years when the nation seemed bent on emptying its entire population into metropolitan clots. Surveys have consistently shown that...
Little towns do, of course, offer their own special allure. A small community of any one of the wide variety provides a setting for life that is profoundly distinct from the hectic atmosphere of the metropolis. The sense of warm, intimate community may not be universal
The idea behind Arcosanti is beguilingly simple: since cities shape society, they should be constructed in ways that accelerate human development. "We can't go back to nature," says Paolo Soleri, 61, the Italian-born architect who is Arcosanti's prime mover and chief guru, by way of...
The Deep Dish cult hit Boston last year too. Straight from the Italian metropolis of Chicago, Pizzeria Uno took fish city by strom with a massive media blitz. Now you have to line up on Boylston St. near Copley Square even to get inside, much less get a seat. And...