Monthly Archives: February 2005

“RULE, SUBURBIA” — OR NOT SO FAST?

The game’s up between cities and suburbs and the suburbs are the hands-down winners, now and as far into the future as one can see, writer Joel Kotkin opined in a Washington Post Outlook section article February 6. The latest trend, Kotkin asserted, is suburbs finding ways to make themselves less monotonous, more diverse and [...]

LEARNING FROM EUROPE

Flying with 800 other people in a plane the size of a shopping mall is not a particular desire of mine, but if it were, I would have to do it on the new Airbus A380, whose completion was announced with great fanfare in Toulouse, France this week. The aircraft can carry more people — [...]