Word: sprawlingly
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...Harvard for once has the potential to work with its neighbors for better land-use development. Furthermore, the creation of an interdisciplinary professional schools campus on the Allston side of the river would free up space on the Cambridge side—easing some of the burdens of Harvard sprawl on Cambridge residents...
...wide, covered in man-made snow and over 100 fake trees, the mall has 220 stores, 30 restaurants, a 15-screen movie theater and a 3,716-sq-m go-cart track. Nestled amid grassy hills, office parks and apartment blocks in a massive ring of suburban sprawl 24 km southwest of Madrid - joining the big-box Ikea and Media Markt that already line the highway - Xanadú is the largest shopping mall in Spain and the sixth largest in Europe. So far, Xanadú is drawing crowds of the curious, suburbanites and thrill-seeking kids. When it opened...
...they’re exiled on the East), Dartboard does not stick up for the ray-soaked wasteland and wishes eastcoasters and westcoasters would just get over it. Southern California doesn’t deserve such reverence. It more than makes up for its brilliant weather with disgusting urban sprawl, choking traffic, pollution, aesthetic debauchery and an intellectually stifling “laid back” atmosphere. The city is a huge expanse of strip malls, crumbling homes and apartment buildings that were in bad taste to begin with, crammed freeways and unbelievably crowded public schools. Sure, rich Los Angelinos...
...opinion of the region. Even though I had seen the Eiffel Tower and the Great Wall of China, Door Country Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula were new to me. Of course, much of the Midwest is more picturesque than I had imagined, more diverse and not quite the sprawl of suburban family values from sitcoms like Family Ties (Columbus, Ohio) or Family Matters (Chicago, IL). My view of the Midwest is more like those John Hughes movies that take place in the fictional suburb of Chicago, Shermer, IL—average families living in average houses with kids just dysfunctional...
With regard to class, Cohen says that suburban sprawl wasn’t the same for everyone, distinguishing between “cop and fireman” suburbs and “upscale” suburbs to counter the false belief that America had one huge, equal middle class...