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...speech more than 100 times with applause. In Cleveland's Public Hall, a near-capacity crowd of 15,000 yelled, screamed, honked horns and rang bells for eleven minutes before Barry finally got them quiet by holding up a silver pocket watch. In Pittsburgh, 15,000 jammed the Civic Arena, raised the roof for 19 minutes before letting the candidate open his mouth...
Every self-respecting city seems to want to be hideous with rubble and raw earth, crawling with helmeted workers, snorting earthmovers and angular cranes. These are the signs and portents of the biggest civic building boom the U.S.?or any other country?has known. It goes by the name of urban renewal, but it might also be called emergency surgery. The metaphor is thoroughly consistent. Considerable pain is involved, and sometimes shock. There is inevitable destruction of healthy tissue, the operation is sometimes a failure, and the patient is really sick or he wouldn't be there...
...kind of heart disease; they have been dying at the center, where the great stores and great buildings and great enterprises are supposed to be. The suburban sprawl, in leeching the center city's lifeblood, was imperiling the whole urban organism. Suddenly everybody?bankers, businessmen, politicians, newspapers and civic associations of all shapes and sizes?found themselves united in a new concern for the city in a mustering of community forces unparalleled in recent times...
Cutting Teeth. One man coordinates, advises and stimulates all this activity?and the array of civic groups, politicians, architects, builders and real estate men necessary to keep it going...
...Cranbrook in our time, everybody was talking about what a wonderful thing the suburbs were going to be?discussing civic centers, working, shopping and living centers?that sort of thing," recollects Eames. "It was all quite new, and we were full of hope for the pastures. We were all gliding out of town on the freeways. But Ed Bacon looked at the first seep of city rot and saw the real crisis." After leaving Cranbrook in 1936, Bacon served for two years as a city planner in nearby Flint, then landed a job back in Philadelphia as managing director...