Word: suburbanitis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Having spent the summer living at home on the suburban North Shore of Long Island, I have come to appreciate the holistic nature of Cambridge. This is not to cry about a dearth of activity in the 'burbs, which also have the shopping, movie theaters, houses of worship, educational institutions, parks, restaurants and government buildings we find here. But it is to decry the decentralization of life found in suburban America, the separation of businesses from residential communities and schools; of churches and temples from the village green; of wealthy neighborhoods from those less affluent...
...zoning was a response to industrialization, a determination by the inhabitants of a town that they would not be overwhelmed by immense factories. After WWII, zoning codes became even more restrictive so as to separate most aspects of life from each other. Today, Kunstler says, "What zoning produces is suburban sprawl, which must be understood as the product of a particular set of instructions.... [This] model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess...
...chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., rolled out of bed after a brief night's sleep. There was no time for breakfast. He showered, pulled on his customary slacks, open-necked shirt and sweater, and climbed into his Lexus for the 20-minute drive from his suburban Bellevue, Washington, home to the Seattle convention center...
Residents seem to most fear the arrival of suburban sprawl. To buy groceries here, people must drive to neighboring Ayer or Leominster--and they like that just fine...
...local school boards and the N.J.E.A. often involve hardball tactics: in Madison last fall, teachers stopped writing college recommendations for seniors after they had worked nine months without a new contract. Yet even the N.J.E.A, says Lynne Strickland, director of the Garden State Coalition, a lobbying group for 118 suburban school districts, is making some "midcourse corrections" and now supports charter schools...