Word: sprawling
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Even more ambitious is the Urban Geo Grid proposed by Shimizu Corp. It would be an immense network of subterranean atriums connected by tunnels and filled with such facilities as offices, gymnasiums, libraries, exhibition halls and public baths. The project would be built 164 ft. below the ground, sprawl across 485 sq. mi. and accommodate 500,000 people. Not only would temperature and humidity be controlled, say the planners, but real sunlight would be reflected in through vents from the surface. Estimated cost: $80.2 billion...
...ramble through history ends as I arrive in El Paso, directly across the border from Ciudad Juarez (the two cities' combined population exceeds 1.5 million). But for the narrow concrete channel that guides the Rio Grande through the urban sprawl, it would be difficult to pick out the boundary. There is synergy everywhere, from the maquiladoras on the Mexican side, where American manufacturers pay less than $1 an hour to a largely grateful work force, to the shops lining El Paso's Bridge Street, where Spanish is the vernacular...
Ceasar is the paid organizer for a church-based citizens group that is struggling to bring drinking water to thousands of impoverished families along the Mexican border. As such, she mobilizes working-class Hispanics who live in unregulated subdivisions called colonias that sprawl across miles of cotton fields in El Paso's Lower Rio Grande Valley...
Murdoch's holdings may sprawl over four continents, but there is a clear pattern. "Everything is English-language related, global related and media related," says John J. Veronis, head of Veronis, Suhler & Associates, the investment-banking firm that brokered the Triangle deal. Adds Investment Banker Steven Rattner of Morgan Stanley: "Other U.S. media are exporting their products, but Murdoch is the only one buying indigenous communication systems and linking them together...
...Bozo's. In the glaring sprawl of suburban Metairie, this is the place to hunker down over the area's best boiled and fried oysters, shrimp and crayfish. Gumbo with chicken and smoky andouille sausage is properly peppery and thickened with a sprinkling of file...