Word: sprawls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MULTILEVEL PLATFORMS. Architect Michael Black was called in by Harold Slavkin, a Los Angeles molecular biologist, to plan a vacation house. He disposed of all furniture, building a complex of multilevel platforms covered with carpeting. Now guests sit, lie or sprawl, and flop from one tier to another as conversations catch their interest. "In a 10-ft. by 12-ft. area," says Slavkin's wife Kay, "we've had as many as twelve people in practically as many postures." Black also revamped the Slavkins' staid, traditional Los Angeles house. "The problem," he says, "was a cold, formal...
...carries the tiered effect even further, with floors of one room becoming sofas (also tables, chairs and beds) for another. "You can sit on the edge of the drawing room and dangle your feet into the studio," says Kappe. "There are so many places for people to sit or sprawl that we can entertain a hundred and still retain intimacy...
Environmental pollution is really a problem for everyone. It now turns out that even the nation's astronomers are bothered. With urban sprawl rapidly closing in on their lonely mountain observatories, the astronomers are faced with a problem of first magnitude: the glare of city lights is threatening to put some of the country's largest optical telescopes out of business...
EVEN its defenders admit that El Monte is an eyesore, a blur of suburban sprawl 14 miles from downtown Los Angeles. Its boundaries meander without obvious aim or purpose. Tiny houses, usually stucco and rarely worth more than $30,000, are jumbled together with tacky businesses along its dismal streets. Some 70,000 people call it home, but only a city father could love it. "This is a lower-middle-class workingman's community," says City Administrator Kenneth Bolts. Unnecessarily, he adds: "We will never be a Beverly Hills...
...Most serious is the lack of strong national standards for planning. This might well leave the field to weak state standards favoring assorted special interests. Moreover, the bill now requires the states to control only big developments and new projects in special areas; elsewhere, wasteful land uses involving urban sprawl and roadside slurbs could easily continue. Nonetheless, most conservationists agree that the Administration has taken a vital step by merely identifying land use as a key national problem...