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Ultimately, of course, urban-suburban sprawl is intolerable not just because it is ugly, oppressive and dull but because it is inefficient. Says Rouse: "Suburban sprawl stretches out the distances people must travel to work, to shop, to worship, to play...
...world of heavy construction, no one thinks bigger than a country boy from Alabama named Winton ("Red") Blount. Just after World War II, he was building fishponds in the rural South. Now he is preparing to erect an immense desert campus in Saudi Arabia that will sprawl across an area the size of 109 football fields. In partnership with the French firm Bouygues, Blount Inc., of Montgomery, Ala. (fiscal 1981 sales: $651 million), has captured a coveted $1.7 bil lion contract to build Saudi Arabia's new University of Riyadh. Last week the first payment on the deal...
...embarrassment as a real native not only edges closer to make conversation but threatens to stand up to welcome the outlanders. The California Avocado Commission promotes the nutritional value of its green "love food" with the help of aging Sex Symbol Angie Dickinson, 49, who in December will sprawl across two pages of recipes in some 18 national magazines. The copy asks: "Would this body lie to you?" Ads for B.V.D.s, now made by Union Underwear Co. in Bowling Green, Ky., are heavy on beefcake: one has a cowboy happily shaving out on the range clad only in skivvies...
Arthur Avenue with its commercial energy and tightly-knit community spirit embodies the determination of South Bronx residents to revitalize their neighborhoods. The smell of fresh fish fills the street. Vegetable and fruit stands sprawl on the sidewalk. Shoppers double park their cars as they run into bazaars to buy homemade pasta, bread, or Italian pastries. This is the old New York ethnic dynamism, thought to have died in the South Bronx with Charlotte Street...
During the late '50s, the firm of Cabot, Cabot and Forbes had planned a huge corporate office mall along Route 128, designed for companies like the First National Bank of Boston. The future of downtown Boston seemed grim. Its economic base was about to sprawl into the suburbs. But after Logue completed Government Center, First National changed its plans. Its corporate headquarters now stand as a landmark on Boston's skyline, and almost all the big corporations of New England have followed suit. Their headquarters are now congested into Boston's downtown rather than fragmented around its suburbs...