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NEWSPAPERS Many a metropolitan newspaper has tried to cope weith surburban sprawl rom downtown by slipping surburban supplements into regular editions and shipping them to outlying communitties. The Los Angeles Times was one newspaper following the practice, usuing many "zoned" editions to serve some 76 towns in the surrounding suburbs. Times Publisher Otis Chandler watched the process with growing dissatisfaction, then decided that the only solution is for a newspaper to grow the way a modern city-community grows...
...cities are designed to eliminate "suburban sprawl" which threatens to gobble up too much of the limited English farm acreage. New town homes are built in highdensity clusters. Parklands are placed between neighborhoods or on the outskirts of town...
...across the U.S. Their troubles are a source of particular concern because architects and developers alike feel that the best of the projects could teach the whole country how to surround homes with a more pleasant environment. Moreover, planners consider new towns a promising antidote to the suburban sprawl. Such haphazard building, they say, could wreck the countryside as the U.S. doubles its stock of housing over the next 30 years...
...years the land has been turned to farming (barley, potatoes, wheat) and later to citrus on a vast scale. The real crop began coming in only a decade or so ago, with the steady outward creep of urban Los Angeles, 35 miles to the north. As the megalopolitan sprawl pressed at its fences, Irvine's real estate value soared to well over $1 billion...
...went broke, but continued writing and recording songs at his own expense. In 1959, Way Over There sold 60,000 copies. Encouraged, Gordy borrowed $700 from his family and launched Motown in a seedy frame house on Detroit's Grand Boulevard, where his offices and studios now sprawl through eight buildings...