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Hardtop v. Greensward. "Our parks," Hoving found, "have remained lifelessly suspended in time like the Pyramid of Cheops." Says Hoving: " 'Parks are for people' is the most leaden statement, but it's true." And people need recreation. "Recreational facilities should have a flair," Hoving believes. "They should be spontaneous, offbeat, with a slight tinge of potlatch-letting everything go." Under Hoving, the Parks Department sponsored a Happening in which everyone painted anything on yards and yards of white canvas. When he found that a hill left during construction was the favorite area for boys in one park...
...People live in the city," Hoving states. "Are they supposed, like the ailanthus, to struggle for survival by thrusting themselves through cracks in the hardtop? I don't think so." To make sure that New Yorkers will have greensward to play on and open spaces in which to breathe is Hoving's aim. He is working on everything from a "green belt" park for Staten Island to far-out projects for concrete piers with swimming pools in the Hudson. "Wherever there is a conflict of interests," says New York's most popular parks commissioner, "it must...
...classic university campus is a grouping of quaint Gothic or red brick Georgian buildings adrift on a rolling meadow of greensward. But the exploding college population of the U.S. demands less casual and rustic solutions. In the Chicago metropolitan area alone, there are 150,000 college students. By 1980, estimates the University of Illinois, there will be 568,000 questing applicants. To meet this need, the university desperately needed a new campus, one that would be big, modern and accessible to city dwellers...
...struts-provides collegiate symbolism. Inside the grounds the pattern is yellow-beige brick (Jacobsen had several walls knocked down and laid again), sweeps of floor-to-ceiling glass and marble-smooth concrete beams-all interspersed with gardens, courts and a reflecting pool. The quadrangle is a rond-point of greensward offering a single, artfully off-centered tree...
Britain's enterprising Duke of Bedford, who last year turned over the greensward of his ancestral mansion to a pack of sun worshipers for an international nudists' frolic, announced that this year Woburn Abbey will angle for the sightseer trade (admission: 35? a head) without resorting to any sideshows besides a rally for helicopters and other aircraft, a horse show, a circus. "Nudism is played out," said His Grace summarily. "It was a good gimmick while it lasted...