Category: Environment

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A marina on Lake Havasu with mountains in the background. (McCulloch photo)

Two New Town Mirages

Washington, D.C.   November, 1971   They are the most unlikely of locations: a remote hot, dry Arizona moonscape of dusty, rocky hills and dark, foreboding treeless mountains around a long forgotten reservoir lake on the Colorado River at the California border; and 500 miles

A view of the first small cluster of townhouses and greenery at Park Forest South.

The Midwest: An Unlikely Laboratory For New Towns

Freeways came late to the urban Midwest, after they had been tried to relieve traffic congestion in the crowded East and had created an entirely new pattern of living in California. Today, the multi-lane divided highways marked by prominent blue and red interstate route signs

Dateline Seoul: Will Success Spoil the ROK?

Dateline Seoul: Will Success Spoil the ROK?

Seoul–   This is the Oriental Year of the Boar, and throughout the Far East the English-speaking punsters are having an absolute circus with that one. But here in Korea – no matter what the zodiacal charts decree – it always seems nowadays to be

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Mishima: The Shock Waves Continue

In the wake of the ritual suicide of Yukio Mishima, Japan’s leading novelist, a profitable – and at times macabre – cultural phenomenon has evolved. The Japanese, who are much given to instant labels, call it the “Mishima Boom.” It is an apt designation. Mishima

The Citadel and ruins of Susa; what appear to be eroded hills are actually great piles of debris and rubble - potsherds, human and animal bones, shaped stones and other archeological remains.

How Lonely Sits The City – Part I

A Survey in Two Parts of the Human Impact of Agricultural Development from Prehistoric to Contemporary Times as seen from the Village of Shush-Daniel on the Khuzestan Plain of Southwest Persia Contents   Part One: 10,000 to 640 B.C. – Bedouin. PartTwo: Le Temoin –