Word: skyscraperism
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Such shifts away from cities have already been in progress in several parts of the country and, to a small extent, in Boston, the speakers said, adding that the decentralization plan is far superior to city-housing projects that concentrate on tall buildings to accommodate increasing populations. Skyscraper dwellings are...
The weather was wonderful almost everywhere. Skyscraper, silo and factory stack stood sharply against October's bright blue sky. Nights held the first promissory note of frost. New England's sumac was already scarlet; and below the snow-dusted rimrock of the high Rockies, aspen gleamed like brass...
Perverted Capitalism. Typical of what happens to Russian dreams is the case of the Palace of the Soviets, a huge skyscraper the government started building in the early '30s. The planners chose a likely site, blew up a cathedral which was in the way-only to find that the...
Huey's roads, Huey's bridges, Huey's schools and Huey's friends & enemies are everywhere that Earl goes. Earl works in Huey's 34-story skyscraper capitol and lives in Huey's governor's mansion-an imitation White House which the Kingfish...
Frontier Town. Brazil-born son of a British missionary, Dr. Jim settled in Anapolis, he says, "because it just couldn't go any place but forward." It was a junction point for mule trains then, had "only two simple streets and a dozen houses." Fanstone was the first to...