Word: suburbias
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...Walk on the Wild Side should carry a warning on the jacket: For Strong Stomachs Only. It is a picaresque story of the Depression, rich in shocking incident and rinsed in squalor that makes The Man with the Golden Arm seem like a novel of suburbia. Its hero is an illiterate, crafty boy of 16 whose talents are chiefly sexual, whose amorality would excite the envy of an alley cat. Yet he vaguely wants to better himself, and knows he can never do it in his Texas home town, where his father cleans cesspools and spouts drunken fundamentalism from...
Shield came in with a hatful of ideas, soon turned them into cash-register receipts. He systematically pruned away drab and inefficient old stores, studied population trends and home-building statistics to spot his new supermarkets. As the U.S. family moved to suburbia, Shield also packed up, moved his staff and executive offices out of downtown Manhattan to the heart of a shopping center in mushrooming East Paterson, N.J., where he built a glass-and-cut-stone emporium that chain-store experts refer to as "a mecca for supermarket operators." It is not only a thumping success in dollar sales...
Thus began an advertising campaign for Cincinnati's Episcopal Christ Church designed to meet the crisis of the city church. For active church life has followed the shift to suburbia, leaving the smoke-blackened downtown edifices behind to minister to dwindling congregations. Last year Christ Church decided to buck the trend, put up a new $1,500,000 church on East Fourth Street in the same downtown parish that it had served for 120 years. While the church was abuilding, Bishop Henry Wise Hobson of the Diocese of Southern Ohio received a grant ($5,000 a year for five...
...situation is also discouraging. The influx of ill-paid workers only partially compensates for the steady procession of wealthy citizens creeping towards suburbia. Likewise, industry is on the march--towards Route 128, where traffic is not clogged, expansion is not blocked by overpriced low grade housing, and taxation is not determined by a declining tax-base...
First, that efficiency crowds large numbers of people into a small area close to the center of a city. Those who wish more space must pay more and live in suburbia. Thus, when the area of crowding increases, it encroaches on former suburbs, and homes designed for comfortable family life are subdivided into rooming houses or tenements...