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...Island boomtime coincided with the hyperinflation of US domestic interiors, the moment in which the Dallas-style ranch begat the suburban McMansion....
...We loved our pit-stop in the tiny town of Salmon, Idaho, and have become urban clichés as we rave to our friends about how beautiful Montana is....
...His personal popularity used to be worth at least a few extra percentage points to an ANC that is thoroughly discredited with the black urban voters who should be its mainstay....
...The food ranges across the country’s northern half – from urban street stalls to rural villages to mother-in-law dining rooms – with no tikka masalas, vindaloos or samosas in sight....
...For decades, the Sea Ranch Lodge was the public face of the pioneering residential development of the same name, before beginning to gently give in to datedness....
...Lockie has never felt comfortable with the central role of money in conventional society or the material distractions of urban living....
...“It was precisely where [housing] should go if you care about putting it in the urban core rather than sprawling all over the place....
...The process of breaking down these batteries and repurposing them is known as “urban mining”....
...The 2005 photo shows then president George W Bush looking down on the city from a window on Air Force One as he returned from a holiday at his Texas ranch....
...Donna Kilpatrick, who works on a ranch in Arkansas, explains how we can make a difference as consumers....
...The proximity of some of them to the spectacular lakes and forests of Brandenburg, the state that surrounds Berlin, is an added attraction for those disillusioned with urban living....
...“You know, I grew up on a ranch until I was about five,” says Gabriela. “I went to school in the city in Montevideo, but I still spent every summer on the ranch until I rebelled and went to Australia....
...Hence Papageno House, a handsome 19th-century urban villa in Laren, a small town 28km from Amsterdam....
...And the cocktails – if there’s one thing that carries over from the group’s funky urban watering holes, it’s these....
...Typically they existed on the outskirts of urban areas....
...He and his American wife Carrie had built a 12-bedroom Spanish-colonial-style ranch in Uruguay (a country they had “fallen in love with”, says a blog post on the Vik Retreats website, on a visit “to introduce...
...“We are building a lot of houses in the wildland-urban interface....
...“In most of New Jersey, this is a very large loss for us,” said James Phillips, sitting on a finely embroidered sofa inside his ranch house in the suburb of Summit, New Jersey....
...best known for its past: the California town was founded in the early 20th century after prospectors discovered gold, and was later home to silent-movie-star Clara Bow after she and her husband bought a ranch...
...A neat ranch house on a small grassy lot and a commute down the highway to work in some faceless, sun-washed office park....
...Just $6,000 of lumber later, he’d built a house in Powhatan County, a timber ranch house with a metal roof and stone chimney....
...But this is Los Angeles County; at the western edge of the city that invented smoggy urban sprawl....
...A sense of mission permeates the ranch....
...Because ranchettes tend to be much closer to urban centres than the huge ranches, their appeal is not limited to outdoorsy types....
...But away from the urban area the scenery can be jaw-dropping, with the wooded foothills of the Andes framing the pale blue expanse of nearby Lake Nahuel Huapi....
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