Word: suburbias
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...DIED. PIERRE KOENIG, 78, pioneering California architect who shocked suburbia with Modernist glass-and-steel frame homes; in Los Angeles. His cantilevered Case Study House No. 22, below, remains one of the most photographed residences in the world and has been featured frequently in films, advertisements and TV shows. A San Francisco native, Koenig graced southern California with more than 40 eye-popping Modernist homes, including his own magnificent, multilevel Brentwood abode...
...done. Outside, his alcoholic father (Kevin Spacey), his girlfriend (Jena Malone) and others in the community grapple with the repercussions of this terrible act of violence. What does it mean for their community? Although many critics have mocked it as a now predictable execration of the darkness behind modern suburbia, in this time of school shootings and anti-depressants, this is certain to be interesting and intentionally boundary pushing...
...need walk unaccompanied. Walking isn’t physically demanding, either, and we are in the bloom of our youth anyhow. Our hesitancy to walk seems instead to be a side-effect of our late-20th-century upbringing. We come, many of us, from a sidewalk-less, SUV-saturated suburbia that is famously inhospitable to walkers. Acquiring our cars was a rite of passage; our high schools were flanked by expanses of asphalt. Most of our walking was done at saunter, as we described long, lazy circuits of the mall. In my hometown, walking seems a dangerous eccentricity; when...
...figure in all Suburbia, the thread that weaves between family and community--the keeper of the suburban dream--is the suburban housewife. In the absence of her commuting, city-working husband, she is first of all the manager of home and brood, and beyond that a sort of aproned activist with a penchant for keeping the neighborhood and community kettle whistling. With children on her mind and under her foot, she is breakfast getter, laundress, housecleaner, dishwasher, shopper, gardener, encyclopedia, arbitrator of children's disputes, policeman. If she is not pregnant, she wonders if she is. She takes her peanut...
...Prius, he spent years battling the idea that environmentally friendly cars would never appeal to consumers or make a profit. Today he stands proudly on the wreckage of that conventional wisdom, having helped create the first eco-car to decisively leave the drawing board and storm the streets of suburbia. More than 110,000 units have been sold worldwide since the first-generation Prius was introduced in Japan in 1997. "Our challenge," he says, "was to achieve our environmental goals without compromising performance and design...