January/February
2000
The
New Suburbanites
How today's immigrants are enlivening a landscape of
subdivisions and strip malls.
- Immigration Nation
New cultures are transforming America once again.
By Brad Edmondson
- Gujarat Goes to Jersey
Indian merchants revive a decaying retail strip.
By Sudip Bose
- Little Mogadishu
Somali refugees find a haven in an unlikely place.
By Reed Karaim
- Beltway Seoul
Koreans are drawn by educational offerings.
By Heather Won Tesoriero
- Delta to Delta
Vietnamese swap the Mekong for the Mississippi.
By Marc Leepson
Napa's Vintage Import
An English house built in 1480 is dismembered and
resurrected on a California hillside.
By James Hamilton
On the Campaign Trail
The legendary Lincoln-Douglas debates linger in the
memory of seven Illinois towns.
By Shirley Streshinsky
Preservation News
Transitions • A congregation
refuses orders to abandon its little 1922 church
• Chasing down Sen. Moynihan's parting thoughts
on preservation • Yikes!
A cheesy pizza parlor • A Sense of Cyberplace:
Itineraries of historic sites • Midcentury
architecture vies for recognition in the land of art
deco • Why is that San Francisco pooch
still grinning? • Salvaging
architectural fragments is bigger business than ever
• Cops charged with vandalizing a national landmark
in West Virginia • Who's
News
Place: Sweet Lorain: And was Jerusalem builded
here / Among these dark Satanic mills?
By Michael Dirda
Landscape: John Bartram's botanical garden,
a perfect self-portrait, looks much as it did 250
years ago.
By David Laskin
The Back Page: Cleaner, closer, and newer, goofy
renditions of old landmarks are doppelganging up
on us.
By Dwight Young
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