Word: expressways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minute expressway drive from Tokyo International Airport into the center of the city offers an unforgettable vision-mile after gray mile of squat, smoke-stained concrete and steel structures, punctuated now and then by smokestacks spewing black fumes. The 400-mile coastal strip from Tokyo to Osaka is the world's most densely industrialized tract of real estate: its factories produce more than half of Japan's $200 billion annual G.N.P. All this industry, says Michitaka Kaino, director of Tokyo's Research Institute for Environmental Protection, provided a kind of bestiary of kogai (pollution): "You name...
...described as "the belly of Paris." The market has now been moved to more functional quarters in the suburbs, near Orly airport, and a giant commercial center called the Plateau Beaubourg will rise in place of the old vegetable stands. Last month there were demonstrations against plans for an expressway along the Left Bank. "Today for the first time within memory," says Etienne Mallet, urban-affairs critic for the daily Le Monde, "people are going into the streets to protest against new construction...
...authorities are responding to some outcries, however. A hotel project on the fashionable Right Bank has been shelved, and plans for the expressway on the Left Bank have been modified so that it will be hidden. These belated actions point toward a new attitude about urban grace. If its promise is realized, the Paris of the future will be a vastly different, and more manageable city than it is today. The suburbs will be the bustling, growing, changing centers of activity. Central Paris, the Paris of lovers and tourists, will remain much as it has been for a century...
...interview the family, and the not very congenial story grew through the course of the afternoon. The interview itself was over quickly but the radio in the newscar kept burbling new accidents and other death scenes for us to visit. There was a death car on the Southeast Expressway; there was another shooting in the South End; there was a drowning in Dedham. When I got back to the Desk some three hours later there was another batch of clippings on my typewriter. A small sheet of copy paper with "fatals round-up" written on it held all the sheets...
Then in 1965, they renewed their friendship at the Napoleon House, a French Quarter bar. They discussed the imminent construction of an elevated Mississippi riverfront expressway, which would have been an aesthetic catastrophe for the graceful Vieux Carré. They launched a thorough investigation of the project and within two weeks produced a detailed report showing the expressway to be the result of shoddy planning. Their findings did not endear them to the Chamber of Commerce-nor, they were astonished to find, to many of their lifelong friends. They were quietly but firmly pushed out of what they refer...