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...challenging of all is Israeli Architect Moshe Safdie's "Habitat," a visionary, multilevel village, complete with shops. Prefabricated, prestressed concrete cubes are equipped with kitchens, bathrooms, wiring, plumbing, insulation and windows made in an assembly-line plant on the site. Then the units, averaging 80 tons apiece, are crane-hoisted into position like gargantuan building blocks. When the project is finished, more than 30 fully furnished houses, with from one to four bedrooms, are scheduled to go on display. The other 120-odd are already being rented at a fast pace as showrooms or living space by governments, corporations...
Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 joined Sullivan in voting against the office, claiming that Gray would provide more plans in a City already surfeited with plans...
...other city of only six square miles now being asked to digest the NASA project with 42 acres, the Kennedy complex with 12 acres, and--if it must be--the Inner Belt with oodles of acres?" Crane asked...
...said that a new master plan would only "dress up" old plans for expansion which the City has had since a Planning Board study in 1958. Those plans were never acted on, Crane said, and more plans would be "new labels on empty bottles...
...time has come to call a halt to this planners' world," Crane concluded...