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The phrase ''dream house'' began to acquire ironic overtones. Even those families who would have accepted nearby gas or electrical installations refused to be near a nuclear plant or an LNG terminal. The political movement launched by environmentalists had one great success by 1982. Steady, sustained political pressure on both utilities and government regulatory agencies had made it clear that nuclear power plants were financially unprofitable to design, build, and operate. This citizen resistance to poor energy planning marked a significant achievement for Americans concerned about the safety of their neighborhoods and the social responsibility of major corporations.
They formed a verdant heart for every settlement, bordered by the meeting house, the minister's. house, and the houses of other settlers. 3 Because they represent American citizens' earliest covenants to provide and maintain public space, the village greens are an important part of our political heritage as well as our landscape heritage; they are our first and best planning tradition. Each Farmer on His Own Farm By the end of the eighteenth century the New England pattern of town building was challenged by an alternate approach.
8 When ''In the New Garden, in All the Parts," Whitman imagined himself walking through modern cities, he was most interested in finding this type: ''with determined will, I seek-the woman of the future, I You, born years, centuries after me, I seek. " 9 In addition, as a single man who was given to wandering the streets, seeking lovers both male and female, Whitman celebrated a public domain open to "the dear love of comrades'': I dream 'd in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth, I dream 'd that was the new city of Friends, Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love, it led the rest, It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words.