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...problems of traffic congestion and public reaction to planning were stressed by the two other speakers on the program, Victor Gruen, an architect, and Andrew Heiskell, publisher of Life magazine. Heiskell emphasized the opposition encountered by city planners, and quoted early abuse of Rockefeller Center by the New York Times and Walter Lippmann, who called Radio City Music Hall "a pedestal for a peanut...
...Gruen called for more complete rehabilitation projects, and showed slides with plans for the ideal city. With 80 million cars expected on the road by 1967, he said, present urban forms were no longer practical. Citing the statistic that one person is killed or injured every six minutes, he urged "a peaceful co-existence between automobiles and the human race...
...Erich Gruen, 21, whose father owns a bakery in Arlington, Va., is an ancient history major at Columbia, got his Phi Beta Kappa key in his junior year. He is a member of the steering committee of the senior class, is director of classical music for the Columbia radio station, heads the Ted Kremer honor society which devotes itself to social service...
...trucks, Gruen's planners suggested a subsurface road network linked to the beltway. Recessed drives would connect with cellar entrances for deliveries. The taller, high-value buildings in the area today would remain, with new skyscrapers added. Disappearing to make way for the beltway and garages, whose roofs would serve as heliports, would be shabby, less desirable structures...
...When Gruen finished, his audience of Fort Worth community leaders enthusiastically appointed study committees. They were so impressed by the Texas-like immensity of the project that none stopped to chide him for an undiplomatic slip: his report had said that "Fort Worth now finds itself not keeping pace with Dallas...