Word: sprawl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Attempting to put a positive spin on the decision, Associate Dean of Freshmen in Residence Lorraine Sterritt argued, "These students will be as close if not closer [to the Yard] than those living in the Union dorms." But past expansion cannot justify another round of housing sprawl, let alone one that will land a dorm between the Hasty Pudding Club and the Delhi Darbar restaurant. And even if Hurlbut, Pennypacker and Greenough no longer have the Union, at least they have each other...
...archaeology professor father and school-librarian mother, Judge grew up amid the grim sprawl of '70s Albuquerque, New Mexico. After college he sampled and ultimately rejected a number of jobs as an electrical engineer before devoting his energies to playing bass in various blues-rock bands. Comedy was his deepest passion, however. "I always wanted to be in Second City," he says, referring to the renowned Chicago-based comedy troupe. "But growing up in Albuquerque I thought, How the hell do you get to be one of those guys?" It wasn't until 1991 that Judge, already married and living...
...response to industrialization, a determination by the inhabitants of a town that they would not be overwhelmed by immense factories. After WWII, zoning codes became even more restrictive so as to separate most aspects of life from each other. Today, Kunstler says, "What zoning produces is suburban sprawl, which must be understood as the product of a particular set of instructions.... [This] model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess...
Residents seem to most fear the arrival of suburban sprawl. To buy groceries here, people must drive to neighboring Ayer or Leominster--and they like that just fine...
Residents seem to most fear the arrival of suburban sprawl. To buy groceries here, people must drive to neighboring Ayer or Leominister--and they like that just fine...