Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four or five years for a package project of the power plant, a housing project, and the Affiliated Hospitals Center. The Harvard/MASCO plan will have an impact on the people in Boston that is almost unparalleled in urban development. It is one thing to replace a section of commercial downtown with similar commercial construction it is quite another to move $220 million worth of construction smack into the middle of an established neighborhood when most of that money will be spent on things which will serve that community in no way at all. Harvard plans to spend $50 million...
...bitterest round of bloodletting between rival liberation groups had, in fact, left the Angolan capital a shambles. As thousands of whites sought to get out of the country, entire families crowded into the airport, waiting for any available flight out. Thousands of others, mostly blacks, jammed into the downtown section of the city in an effort to escape the fighting in outlying muceques (slums). After two hospitals closed down for lack of staff, medical teams were simply unable to cope. The wounded lay by the dozens in blood-smeared hospital corridors. Water was in short supply, and Portuguese troops...
...about eighteen when my great uncle Jake took the dinner hours to describe how he and a new partner had bought a street of slum houses in downtown New York He. Jake, during a lunch break in the signing of the partnership, removed all the toilet seats from the buildings and sold them for fifty dollars. But, asked my mother's cousin, what will the poor people who live there do without toilet seats? "Let us," said Jake, "approach your question in a practical manner. I ask you to accompany me now to the bathroom, where I will explode...
...Downtown on famous Printer's Alley one expects a Bourbon Street of country music--stand in the middle of the avenue and hear a dozen songs wafting and mingling from a dozen different clubs, not sailors and revelers with one earring stumbling out of doors, maybe, but at least truckers and dirt farmers on a night out. But it's just a row of dirty book stores and porno booths, privacy ensured, and the old auditorium, Ryman's, which used to be the Grand Ole Opry in better days, looks like a church turned bingo hall. The Ernest Tubb Record...
Contrary Approach. To be recycled, buildings must conform to an economic law as iron-cast as their own beams or facades: they must pay their way. The entrepreneur begins with a solid old structure that is well served by transportation facilities or on the fringes of desirable downtown areas. When architects come in to assess conversion problems, they have to take an approach contrary to all of their training; instead of form following function, function has to follow form. "We simply deal with what we find," says Boston Architect Paul McGinley of Anderson Notter Associates Inc. "The old building itself...