Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, 100 soldiers armed with machine guns and bazookas suddenly sealed off a block in downtown Algiers. Then, like terriers, special squads went after their prey. He was Omar Harraig, 38, no less a figure than the police commissioner of Algiers...
Many a modern city is suffering from an epidemic known as the Downtown Disease, or Business Center Blight. There are three courses of treatment: 1) rerouting through traffic away from the business district; 2) cutting off vehicular traffic altogether, as Copenhagen did last month on its principal shopping street, the ⅔-mile-long Stroget; 3) performing major surgery known as "making a mall...
Bringing on the Bulldozers. A year ago, downtown Pomona seemed to be a terminal case. The main drag, Second Street, was a sorry sight; a third of its buildings were vacant, shops that once were elegant had become clustered holes-in-the-wall-paint peeling, screens rusted to holes. Businessmen and merchants who had not yet moved away were wondering if there was any future at all in the downtown area, and landlords were making things worse by forgoing repairs...
...department store, and midway on its length a 7½-story office building is under construction. Behind the stores the city had already built large parking spaces, considered by mall men to be a key factor in the success of pedestrians-only areas. In effect, downtown has been converted to an oversized shopping center. Pomona is also considering amplifying its parking facilities by building a monorail between the mall and the fair grounds, two miles away, which are used only 17 days of the year...
...bridges, city engineers drew up imaginative plans for a rapid-transit system that would include the shuttling of trains from Oakland to San Francisco through a six-mile tube under the bay. Now it takes a commuter an hour to drive the 20 miles from Orinda to the downtown area; the transit system would whisk him there in 18 minutes aboard swift, silent trains that would run every 90 seconds during rush hours. The 26-mile trip between San Francisco and southern Alameda County now takes 1½ hours by car in heavy traffic; by train, it would take...