Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...journey for the commuters his trains had delivered to North Western's Madison Street station. Said he: "We discovered one completely unused 'expressway' right in the heart of the city. It is wider than most Loop streets; it is the one remaining traffic artery in downtown Chicago that is completely free of people, vehicles, stop lights and 'No Left Turn' signs...
...years, downtown storekeepers in the nation's cities have been standing morosely watching all the ladies go by-to the suburban shopping centers. It is the city's biggest dilemma in the age of the automobile: the stores have the goods, but where does the shopper park? After a few more years of this, says Planner-Architect Victor Gruen, the cities of America are going to be like doughnuts-"all the dough on the outside, and a hole in the middle...
...Victor Gruen, 58, a lively Vienna-born leprechaun, solving the problems of the deteriorating downtown has become something of an obsession. The automobile, he says, is downtown's most virulent enemy. "No automobile-not even the most elegant Cadillac-ever bought a thing." Dismount the shopper, free him of driving and parking worries, give him a modern version of the old town square, and the city will be born again...
Next week the Boston Redevelopment Authority will begin demolition of an historic row of bookshops along Cornhill in downtown Boston. The Oldest extant book store in America, browsing ground of Emerson, the elder Homes, and Whittier, will yield to a new Government Center. And while a few citizens struggle to maintain some evidences of the past, the rest of Boston stands idly...
...Boston Redevelopment Authority will begin demolition next week of the historic book shop row along Cornhill between Scollay Square and Fanueil Hall in downtown Boston. The buildings now slated for eventual destruction include the Brattle Book Shop, formerly Closeworthy's, the oldest extant book store in America...