Word: sprawl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scene that many Angelenos worry about at night took place recently at the Imperial Courts housing project, a low-rise sprawl of faded blue pastel walls and barred windows in the mostly black district of Watts. John Beatty, a big, bearded African American, is coordinator of an alternative school that tries to rescue dropouts. Two weeks ago he led eight teenage boys in a discussion to caution them about events that might grow out of the King and Denny cases. All the boys agreed on the likely outcome: trouble. And if violence were to break out again, they told...
Even as Republican speechmakers were taking aim at Clinton from the podium last week, aides were crisscrossing the sprawl of Houston to underscore their points over breakfast, lunch, coffee and cocktails with reporters. Meanwhile, Democratic fax machines were churning out rebuttals -- including a two-page reply to Bush's acceptance speech before he had even finished delivering it. As the volley of stats and cost estimates flying between both camps increases, the campaign is likely to be fought in four major policy arenas as well as on the "family values" front. The key lines of attack...
...city's vastness. He quotes Jean Baudrillard, who wrote that "There is nothing to match flying over L.A. by night." Reid describes the awesome vision offered to a plane passenger approaching the city: the glowing web of streets displays an almost terrifying "limitless urban power and sweep...measureless sprawl...
...concrete jungle (Well, except for Holyoke Center) this region actually has trees. Many parts of the Square, including Harvard yard, Radcliffe yard and the Cambridge Common, are delightfully leafy shaded enclaves. In the winter, the city's open space turns into mud. But during the summer months, students can sprawl on Harvard lawns that were carefully made green for the Commencement crowds...
...pace Woody Allen, right turn on red); the "should not" is in the promise's failures. Cities of the future should not, for example, be without effective systems of mass transportation, as L.A. has been since the 1950s. Modern cities should not encourage the kind of uncontrolled urban sprawl that destroys a sense of unity and shared experience in its citizens. And modern cities should not stress growth over the environment as they plan for the future...