Suburbia's Tide Threatens Identity of Rural America. Mark Sappenfield.
by Sappenfield, Mark; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 30Environment. Publisher: Christian Science Monitor, 2003ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): California -- Population | Central Valley (Calif.) | Culture conflict | Identity (Psychology) | Rural development | Suburban sprawl | Urban-rural migrationDDC classification: 050 Summary: "According to the odometer, San Francisco has always been 60 miles away from the intersection of Central and 11th Streets here. Yet for most of the past century, it has somehow seemed further away. This was a place where tractors churned almond groves into clouds of summer dust. Where the city's curious and well-connected met at the Tracy Inn every morning for flapjacks and coffee. Where residents knew which bottles of Heinz ketchup were made with local tomatoes by the code on the label. All the rest were whispers from 'over the hill'--tales of causes and cafes, traffic and high-tech millions that never made it past the rim of the Altamont Pass, rising like a great wall west of town. Today, however, that wall has been breached, as the suburban hordes pour through the pass every weekday evening on their way to new housing developments that stretch to the horizon's blur." (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) This article discusses the impact of suburban sprawl on rural America.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Suburbia's Tide Threatens Identity of Rural America, April 28, 2003; pp. n.p..
"According to the odometer, San Francisco has always been 60 miles away from the intersection of Central and 11th Streets here. Yet for most of the past century, it has somehow seemed further away. This was a place where tractors churned almond groves into clouds of summer dust. Where the city's curious and well-connected met at the Tracy Inn every morning for flapjacks and coffee. Where residents knew which bottles of Heinz ketchup were made with local tomatoes by the code on the label. All the rest were whispers from 'over the hill'--tales of causes and cafes, traffic and high-tech millions that never made it past the rim of the Altamont Pass, rising like a great wall west of town. Today, however, that wall has been breached, as the suburban hordes pour through the pass every weekday evening on their way to new housing developments that stretch to the horizon's blur." (CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) This article discusses the impact of suburban sprawl on rural America.
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