Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concept is known as a Woonerf, a Dutch word that might loosely be translated as "protected precinct." Right now, the Woonerf is spreading through Western Europe, and the concept, in whole or in part, is in use in Boulder, Colo., and Seattle, Wash., and under consideration in Washington, B.C., Portland, Ore., and New York City. "My own feeling is that we should slow down traffic, not keep it out of residential streets," says Donald Appleyard, professor of urban design at the University of California at Berkeley and author of Livable Streets. "And the Woonerfhas proved a great success in European...
...people by abolishing the street altogether. The modern ideal was Le Corbusier's dream of The Radiant City, which consisted of skyscrapers spaced far apart in a huge park, pierced by superhighways. The trouble was, of course, that the park too easily turned into a parking lot. The concept, which guided much urban renewal in the United States during the 1960s, had a deadening effect on city life...
...concept of the Angels seems to appeal to many. The volunteer force does for free part of the job that the public police force should be doing, and the force is composed mostly of underprivileged youths, who in turn receive the moral education from the Angels that the public school system should be administering. Two birds are killed with one free stone...
That our society is capable of breaking down is clear. The groups that have noticed these anarchical trends and then stepped in to stop the slide, might very well be themselves the most powerful catalysts to anarchy. The Angels are part of a concept, as is the world that they seek to patrol. It is difficult to avoid the distraction of arguing over the Angels' specifics: their berets, their rumbles, their bragging. At a certain level, the Angels are dangerous according to these specifics, but such a proof would apply only to the Angels. The next group would make sure...
...That concept, favored by many in the Defense Department, drew criticism from conservative quarters in those states normally friendly to defense, such as the Morman Church in Utah and Republican senators like Paul Laxalt...