Word: sprawl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...portrait in American fecundity: every day hundreds of young women, their bodies roundly pregnant, descend on the University of Southern California Women's Hospital. They overflow the available chairs and sprawl awkwardly on the floor. They come for prenatal checkups, gynecological care and, finally, to deliver their young. Last year more than 18,000 babies were born in this building, roughly 1 out of every 200 babies born in the U.S. "Sometimes they are lined up in the hallways and stacked up for C-sections like planes at LAX, six or seven deep," says obstetrician-gynecologist David Grimes...
Sniping at Los Angeles for its smog, sprawl and gridlocked freeways is a time-honored pastime in the West. Traditionally, the gibing has been mixed with an abiding envy of the California megalopolis' trend-setting dynamism. But lately no amount of envy -- or imitation -- seems enough to offset the vitriol that is being aimed at L.A. from every direction. Los Angeles has become the butt of abject opprobrium -- the "villain" of the West...
...even Walt, ambitious social engineer that he was, might have been taken aback by the adoption of his commercial vision as Orlando's urban-planning model. Many new arrivals value the place because it offers the virtues of an escape: it is a suburban sprawl that strives to eliminate every kind of vexatious complexity. "People come here because they know it's going to be safe," says Thomas Williams, head of Universal Studios Florida. "They don't have to worry about the weather. They don't have to worry about the car getting broken into. They don't even have...
...more than a decade, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, a Miami- based husband-and-wife team of architects and planners, have been reinventing the suburb, and their solution to sprawl is both radical and conservative: they say we must return to first principles, laying out brand- new towns according to old-fashioned fundamentals, with the locations of stores, parks and schools precisely specified from the outset, with streets that invite walking, with stylistic harmony that avoids the extremes of either architectural anarchy or monotony...
...stretch of the road has a steep mountain wall on one side and a near vertical drop on the other, in places falling away for several hundred feet. Old men overtaken by exhaustion sprawl dangerously close to the brink. Other refugees step over them, too tired to lend a hand. Distressed mothers, wondering when dehydration and shock will claim their children, hold their diarrhea-plagued babies over the road's edge and let them relieve themselves...