Word: pasadena
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looks as if it's going to be important to understand the culture of Southern California. After all, it has formed two Presidents and provided a congenial atmosphere for the retirement of a third. James McMichael's Four Good Things, a new long poem about--of all things--Pasadena, makes such an effort. It is also about worry, death, sex manuals, taxes, domestic architecture, the Industrial Revolution, real estate, and the American soul...
...central technique is making connections. What, for example, is the connection between Pasadena and the Industrial Revolution? McMichael notes that the rich of California, whom a world market brought into being, made houses out of William Morris's criticism of shabby machine production standards. Very beautiful houses, actually, and McMichael describes the principle of their construction with a wonderfully quiet (and faintly nagging) accuracy...
...then, here's the connection to Pasadena's California Institute of Technology and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where the planner's paradigm, the probability theory, took root...
...region famous for its devotion to the automobile, Pasadena residents have searched for traffic relief in their historic neighborhood for eight years. Residential traffic management will not work. Woonerf concept of channeling automobile movement is a positive and encouraging step...
...Pasadena, Calif...