Word: buildings
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...increasing number of urbanologists, a partial solution is to start from scratch, wherever possible, by building "new towns"-completely planned communities that could support as many as 1,000,000 people apiece. Such new towns, says Architecture Critic Wolf Von Eckardt, are "our best hope of coming to grips with the problems of megalopolis." Ed Logue, the city planner who rebuilt Boston's downtown area and recently became president of New York State's Urban Development Corporation, advocates tax incentives that would entice developers to build towns ranging in size from 100,000 to 250,000. "At that...
...concept is not unique to the U.S. There are now more than two dozen "garden cities" in Britain, housing 1,250,000 people. The French plan to build six new towns near Paris before the 21st century. The Netherlands, Sweden and Russia have already built a number of new towns. Tapiola, Finland, an urban Shangri-la six miles from Helsinki, is the new town that comes closest to meeting the ideal. Tapiola's main shopping center is a magnificent paved plaza. Nearby are a movie house, theater, hotel and swimming pool. Since no house is more than 250 yards...
...guarantee $250 million in loans for land acquisition and development to those builders whose newtown plans meet standards prescribed by HUD. The department has already received 17 formal applications and has tentatively committed $30 million to Park Forest South, 28 miles south of Chicago. If the U.S. is to build similar new towns on a large scale, however, HUD officials think that broader legislation and a vastly larger federal role will be necessary...
...group got off to a good start: Lockheed Aircraft Corp. agreed to lease 6.5 acres and build an aircraft-parts manufacturing plant that will employ 300 persons, including as many hard-core unemployed as possible. Allen promised that the park will also be open to local small businessmen. "What we are doing in Watts," he said, "is what should be done in every ghetto in America...
...hear the lilt of exploding bombs and the music of helicopter gunmen that so enthralled the author of Grapes of Wrath. We hear Thruston Morton pathetically suggest that the existence of a standing military-industrial complex with nothing to do but build weapons and use them might influence policy unwisely...