A look at the horrifying encroachment of ugly new housing, strip malls, and other out-of-control development demonstrates that human greed is the culprit.
The main design parameters are length, variation of curvature of the spiral, relationship between the curvatures of shaft and housing, strip thickness and the variation of the bending stiffness along the length of the spring strip, which allow having different types of torque shaft rotation angle characteristic curves.
The central New Jersey suburb of David Maquiling's "Too Much Sleep" is a curiously indistinct, spatially indefinite environment made up of white frame houses, strip malls and bland office blocks.
It is a problem common in many parts of the state, but particularly in central New Jersey, which has seen thousands of acres of farmland sprout houses, strip malls and office complexes over the last two decades.
That's fortunate, since it would have made it ever so much harder to plan the 26-year-old's 1981 murder, look into her eyes as she was strangled in your parents' house, strip off her clothes, yank out her teeth and then dig her grave in marshland by the Neponset River.
The addition of more houses, strip malls and parking lots to serve the estimated one million people expected to move in to the Washington metro region between now and 2040 will increase runoff, contributing to localized flooding and increased pollution of the Bay as well as rivers and streams.
Collectively, they illustrate the innovative capacities of modern architecture, offering an antidote to the dispiriting sensation that the American landscape seems irretrievably destined to become a monochromatic blur of ranch houses, strip malls and glass-fronted office parks -- a sensation that finds reinforcement on the edges of seemingly every decent-sized city.
The house, stripped of all modern trappings and painstakingly refurbished, is a pristine example of turn-of-the-century middle-class propriety.
Barbara Wells, Prudential Connecticut Realty (203) 637-6226; www.prudentialct.com TAXES: $2,309 PROS: A developer redid this house, stripping off aluminum siding to restore the 1930's stucco exterior and gutting the interior.
Harroun, in broken Arabic, asked them to take him to Abu Kamel's group, but instead they brought him to a safe house, stripped him of his weapons, and held him as though he were a prisoner of war.
Back in Upper Manhattan, they were unimpressed by an East Harlem house stripped of all interior detail, but the agent there mentioned a place for sale on 141st Street, northeast of City College.
