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February 26, 1997, p. A2.
    83. Interview with Donal H. Lotz, intermodal manager, and Dimitri C. Rallis, principal shipping analyst, of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, April 20, 1998; Terry Brennan, “Eastern Ports’ Fate Hangs on Dredging,”
Journal of Commerce
, June 22, 1998, 1C–2C.
    84. Interview with Lotz and Rallis, April 20, 1998; Joe Mysak with Judith Schiffer,
Perpetual Motion
(New York: General PublishingGroup, 1997), pp. 229–34; and Lillian Borrone, “Intermodal Transport—The Role of Ports,” speech given at the International Symposium on Liner Shipping, Hamburg, Germany, June 15, 1993 (text courtesy of Don Lotz of the Port Authority of NY/NJ).
    85. On the tropical fish, see “Aquarium Shop Worker Accused of Trafficking in Endangered Fish,”
NYT
, April 17, 1998, B1; on the Seaman’s Church Institute in Newark, see Rousmaniere,
Anchored Within the Vail
, pp. 91–93; on the decline in the number of port workers, see
NYT
, October 13, 1997, B1.
    86. Statement by Rodney Slater, “The National Highway System: Commitment to America’s Future,” March 2, 1995, U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration.
    87. For an account of this congestion, see Theodore Prince, “Intermodal Bottlenecks,”
Journal of Commerce
, May 29, 1998, 7A; and “A Fragile System,”
ibid.
, editorial, August 11, 1998, 6A.
    88.
Ibid.
, August 11, 1998.
    89. On this bill, see David Rogers, “Route of the New I-69 Follows a Trail Marked By Politics and Money,”
WSJ
, May 22, 1998, A1, A9; Eric Planin and Charles Babcock, “Working the System,”
Washington Post National Weekly Edition
, April 13, 1998, 6; Richard Berke, “Lawmaker Takes Highway to Power,”
NYT
, September 25, 1997, A18; for a full account of the House bill, see “Highway and Transit Funding,”
Congressional Quarterly
, House Action Reports (March 31, 1998).
    90. “Small-Town Life Lures Young Professionals,”
WSJ
, September 29, 1995, B8; on road building’s boon for geology, see John McPhee,
Annals of the Former World
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998), pp. 23–25.
    91. These figures come from
Advertising Age
, September 14, 1981; May 12, 1986; May 6, 1991; May 12, 1997 (courtesy of Scott MacDonald, Information Center,
Advertising Age)
.
    92. Kenneth Jackson, “All the World’s a Mall: Reflections on the Social and Economic Consequences of the American Shopping Center,”
American Historical Review
, 101:4 (October 1996), 1111–21; for the 1972 figure, see, in the same
AHR
issue, Thomas W. Hanchett, “U.S. Tax Policy and the Shopping-Center Boom of the 1950s and 60s,” 1106. For the relationship of highways and development,see Owen D. Gutfreund’s dissertation, “Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Accommodating the Automobile and the Decentralization of the U.S.” (Dept. of History, Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1998).
    93. “Power Shortage for ‘Big Box’ Retailers,”
WSJ
, February 7, 1997, B12, and, for 1997 figure in shopping centers, see “The Scope of the Shopping Center Industry in the United States 1998” (New York: International Council of Shopping Centers, 1998), pp. 2–3. Thayer is quoted in the
WSJ
article. See also “Retail Building Surges Despite Store Glut,”
WSJ
, January 17, 1996, A2; and “Retailers Keep Expanding Amid Glut of Stores,”
WSJ
, May 28, 1996, A21, A26.
    94. See Anita Raghavan, “Mall Rises, But Will Shoppers Come?”
WSJ
(July 29, 1998), B6.
    95. Author’s visit, September 1996.
2. THE LANDSCAPE OF THE TEMPORARY
    1. “The Remembering Machines of Tomorrow,” in W. S. Merwin,
Miner’s Pale Children
(New York: Atheneum, 1970), pp. 127–31.
    2. This account is based on a sketch by Dean Takahashi, “Road Warrior,”
Wall Street Journal
(hereafter
WSJ)
, November 18, 1996, R27.
    3. Quoted in John Brinckerhoff Jackson,
Landscape in Sight: Looking at America
, edited by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), p. 246.
    4. For this trend,