Word: sprawl
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Consider L.A.'s notorious sprawl. Banham finds the city did not spread like a cancer to its present 455 sq. mi. Its precise shape was predetermined decades ago by the Pacific Electric Railway's network of rapid-transit tracks. Though critics frequently scoff that such sprawl makes L.A. seem like 100 communities in search of a city, Banham sees instead the excitement of diversity. The jumble of freeways that has replaced the old P.E. railway has maintained the diversity. Far from being destroyers of the urban texture, Banham says, the superhighways "seem to have fixed Los Angeles...
...cream cheese) became Swann's park, and it is there that the novel's thinly fictionalized narrator (whom Proust named Marcel) meets his first love, Swann's daughter Gilberte. The Pré Catalan is much the same today, except that one is not allowed to sprawl on the grass as Proust...
...unabashed eighth-grader in the "new town" of Columbia, Md. Yet the Wilde Lake Middle School (grades 6 through 8), which she now attends, looks at first like a model of irresponsibility. It lacks neat classrooms, desks in rows, hands raised before speaking. Many of its 750 students sprawl in conversational clusters on the carpeted floors. They spend most of their time jumbled into three vast rooms called "pods" that hold 250 kids apiece. Since the pods are really one-room schoolhouses, Wilde Lake sounds like a hive of teen-agers doing their homework with the radio blaring. Skeptical parents...
...much tax from buildings as from the site value of land. This low taxation of land re wards speculators, who can easily afford to keep property off the market until urban growth forces its price up enough for a fat profit. A costly consequence of this is "suburban sprawl," much of which is caused by subdivision developers moving farther out of town to find cheaper land while bypassing idle acreage closer to the city...
...carries the tiered effect even further, with floors of one room becoming sofas (also tables, chairs and beds) for another. "You can sit on the edge of the drawing room and dangle your feet into the studio," says Kappe. "There are so many places for people to sit or sprawl that we can entertain a hundred and still retain intimacy...