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An Urban Jungle Serves as a Battleground Over ‘Perfect Square Lawns’

A bamboo stalk in the trash on the property of Carlos Carrion in New London, Conn., Oct. 20, 2017. The yard is at the center of a fight between the city and Carrion, who has become one of the first to be criminally charged under its expanded blight ordinance. (Jessica Hill/The New York Times)