Word: gruen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Erich S. Gruen; B.A. (1956) Columbia, B.A. (1960) Oxford, Ph.D. (1964) Harvard...
Twenty-four miles east of Sacramento, Architect Victor Gruen has master-planned a 9,800-acre project called El Dorado Hills, which in 15 or 20 years will be a network of twelve villages with a combined population of 75,000 in apartments, as well as houses ranging in price from $20,000 to $100,000. Each village will be centered around a single recreational activity?boating, golf, riding, swimming...
Another big Gruen project is a brand-new community called Laguna Niguel, 48 miles south of Los Angeles, in which about 40,000 people will live, work and play on 7,100 acres of rolling range land. The approach of Laguna Niguel's developer, Cabot, Cabot & Forbes of Boston, illustrates the difference between modern real estate development and old-fashioned lay-it-out and put-it-up methods. Before Master Planner Gruen was called in, the location, population growth, family income and industrial potential of the site were analyzed by two market analysts and placed under close scrutiny...
...room closed for lack of students. In high school and college bands she played the oboe and the bagpipe. From the State University of Iowa, she got a B.A. in art, an M.A. in oil painting, and a Phi Beta Kappa key. There, too, she married Composer John Gruen, now an art and music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. They have one crayon-crazy daughter, aged four...
...businessmen of Fort Worth-like those in many another U.S. city-watched in dismay as traffic congestion clogged downtown streets and customers fled to the suburbs. At their behest the city hired Architect-Planner Victor Gruen to redesign the downtown area, but Gruen's elaborate plan proved to cost more than the city fathers were prepared to pay. Then a downtown mall was tried, but planners failed to provide enough convenient parking space; in the Texas long hot summer, the few potted trees they installed did little to shade the wide concrete expanse, and business declined. But Marvin...