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...last, a post-control-freak third way seems within reach in New York City. Suddenly, even a skeptic can imagine that 42nd Street stretching west from Times Square -- America's most famous city block, glamorous turned squalid and now comatose -- might really be on the verge of revivification. Of course, there have been grand plans before: in 1954 LIFE magazine said a new antisleaze law meant that "42nd Street will probably never again" be as tawdry as it was then (which was considerably less tawdry than it became...
Essentially, if it's pop -- Sir Mix-a-Lot videos, cookie-dough Haagen-Dazs, Harvey Wallbangers, Beauty and the Beast trinkets, tickets to a Madame Tussaud's waxworks -- and doesn't involve pornography, switchblades or free- base pipes, the powers that be want it on the new 42nd Street. "We're after vulgar heterogeneity," says the sly, donnish and influential architect Robert A.M. Stern, who drafted the new guidelines with the sly, perverse and influential graphic designer Tibor Kalman. Incredibly, they have persuaded the state and city to get behind an authentically populist spectacle, a potential mix of tourist traps...
...important The Death and Life of Great American Cities 32 years ago, Jane Jacobs declared that urban vitality depends on an eclectic mix of small stores. But that doesn't mean developers and bureaucrats haven't continued to pursue monumental, street- life-killing projects. Since 1981 the plan for 42nd Street envisioned four monstrous office towers. Lawsuits filed against that plan by neighborhood porno impresarios were beaten back, but they delayed the project for years -- enough time, fortuitously, for the real estate crash to kill it last year. Because the developers still dream of building their high-rises around...
Manhattan's 42nd Street, where Bizarro planning makes sense...
Bill Clinton said the election was about change. George Bush said it was about trust. Ross Perot said it was about the economy. In the end, all three were right, and the American people made Clinton the 42nd President of the United States...