在阿拉斯加的雪山深处,藏着一座“一屋住一城”的奇镇——惠蒂尔。220人挤进一栋14层大楼,电梯一按,上班、上学、买菜、看病全搞定。没有车流,没有通勤,只有风雪与密闭走廊里的温暖人情。
Imagine that you don't have to spend hours in traffic jams on your way to the office.
No need to be squeezed in a crowd of commuters at rush hour.
To get to the supermarket, you don't even have to go out!
Just press a button in the elevator or walk down the stairs if you're in an athletic mood.
Sound like a miracle?
In fact, there's a town in Alaska where citizens have everything they need under one roof.
It's Whittier, perhaps the strangest town you've ever seen.
Whittier is situated on the coast of Prince William Sound in the Gulf of Alaska.
It was named after the glacier nearby, and the glacier in turn got its name thanks to 19th-century American poet John Greenleaf Whittier.
Was he Whittier than the other poets?
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