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Rouse built one of the first enclosed shopping malls, in Glen Burnie, Maryland, in 1958 (he is even credited with first calling them "malls"). But he soon grew disenchanted with suburban sprawl and the unplanned chaos of most cities--"formless places without order, beauty or reason, with no visible respect for either people or the land." His solution was the planned city of Columbia, Maryland, built on 14,000 acres of farmland he had acquired. Instead of impersonal malls and isolated housing developments, the town (current population 84,000) has nine village centers, 78 miles of foot and bike paths...
...most alpha tests. HYPEMETER Silicon Valley's "search engine" companies are about to become the latest winners in the giddy Wall Street sweepstakes known as the high-tech I.P.O. Granted, companies like Yahoo and Excite, which use typed-in key words to guide users through the Web's sprawl, perform an important editorial service. But with minuscule profits and an uncertain future, market valuations hovering at 300 times revenue (for Lycos, which went public last week) strike some analysts as decidedly "optimistic." That's not slowing down the train, though. Yahoo, which had a million-dollar profit last year...
...COLD, FLAT STRETCHES of Garfield County, Montana, the self-proclaimed Justus Township is a bump on the taut horizon. fbi agents wearing flak vests and side arms who kept watch on the place last week saw a farmstead sprawl of family houses, cabins, trailers and some outbuildings in the midst of 960 acres of open land. All of it once belonged to Ralph Clark and his brother Emmett, busted wheat farmers turned fringe ideologues. Visitors say that these days Ralph Clark sometimes wears a lawman's five-pointed star, to signify that...
...many ways Bronfman's selection of Koolhaas is indeed as bold as his grandfather's choice of a modernist in 1954. After all, architects who refuse to condemn suburban mall sprawl and who favor cheap industrial materials aren't usually the beneficiaries of high-corporate patronage. Which isn't to imply that there are many--or even any--architects quite like Koolhaas. Some would label his disorienting, asymmetric buildings deconstructivist; he likes to consider himself an architect without style. For him, form not only doesn't follow function; the two are barely on speaking terms...
...SUNNY SUBURBAN SPRAWL OF WESTMINSTER, California, a city of 72,000 southeast of Los Angeles, the first-grade classrooms of the Neomia B. Willmore School offer two distinct recipes for the American melting pot. In Room B-3, an English-immersion class, teacher Judy Nguyen plinks on the piano. Winsome, if off-key, her 29 charges launch into "My country 'tis of thee," fading away uncertainly as they reach the line "Land of the Pilgrims' pride." About half the children are native Vietnamese speakers; nine are Hispanic. But the book box holds the Berenstain Bears and Dr. Seuss; cheery posters...