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Townspeople elsewhere merely carp about glass boxes and pine for the architectural past. San Franciscans have taken action. Earlier this month the board of supervisors passed an elaborate set of rules governing development in the 470-acre urban heart. The new code, sponsored by Mayor Dianne Feinstein, is more prescriptive and restrictive than any other ever adopted by an American city. At once radical and conservative, the Downtown Plan will permit only a couple of new towers to be built in the dense center of downtown. It will limit large-scale building citywide to an annual aggregate...
...ordinariness of the city that creates the sense of loss; what a normally pleasant city Hiroshima was before the bombing, what a normally pleasant city it is today. On any summer morning, the Hiroshima Carp take infield practice in the baseball stadium; fashionably dressed young men and women walk purposefully to work; traffic builds on the city's bridges. If you would picture the layout of the center of Hiroshima, which covers much of the ground of Kawamoto's story, place your right hand palm down on a flat surface with your fingers spread wide. Your fingers are rivers...
...risen at the site of the 2005 World Exposition. Visitors at the expo's Mitsui-Toshiba pavilion are taken on a multimedia journey through outer space that speculates on the feasibility of travel to distant reaches of the universe. At the Japan pavilion, saltwater red snapper and freshwater carp live side by side in the same pool-a marvel accomplished by infusing the tank with "oxygenated nanobubbles." Throughout the 173-hectare grounds, more than 25 robots are on patrol, sweeping the walkways and offering directions, while natural-gas-powered, driverless buses zip guests from one end of the campus...
...Carp's clarity of purpose and Perez's management seem to have engendered some enthusiasm, but this is epic work. Very few companies of this size, faced with a seismic shift in technology, emerge intact. When his team gets weary, says Pierre Schaeffer, director of business strategy for Kodak's digital and film imaging business, he boosts their spirits with a reminder. "We're involved in a really exciting transition," he tells them. "Regardless of the outcome--and hopefully, we're playing it for the best--the moments we're going through now will be making the textbooks...
...Carp says Kodak's workers understand the pressure the company is under. But that does not necessarily mitigate their misery. The tyranny of micromanaged productivity, says a veteran employee, hangs like a cloud over Kodak's rank and file: "You're accountable for everything you do, or don't do, all the time. You're worried that you may not have a job from one week to the next, and you don't know whether, if you come up with a good idea to save the company money, you could cost people their jobs...