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...Besides adding space, the new building will improve "the helter-skelter arrangement of the present buildings and will provide the visitor with a definite entrance." Goldberg said. "The entrance will have an exhibition area and a new library will be located nearby so an arriving visitor will see a lot of activity...
...natural target for tract developers and subdividers. Even so, McHarg turned "progress" from sprawl to beauty: his plan concentrated all developments on hills and plateaus, leaving the valleys open forever. Endorsed by landowners and the city, the scheme opens the area to 83,000 new residents by 1990 -without helter-skelter destruction of the rolling countryside. Going on from there, McHarg's firm recently completed another enlightened development plan for the seven counties around the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul...
Crippling Blow. As if dehydration were not enough, the park ecosystem is now threatened by plans for an airport six miles from its northern border. Conservationists fear the effects of jet noise, exhaust fallout, fuel and oil spills. They also shudder at the prospect of helter-skelter development around the airport resulting in pollution from sewage, insecticides and fertilizer runoff...
...went to work in the garage behind the grocery store, where his father built mobile homes in his spare time. Later, Decio invested his savings of $3,200, talked friends into putting up $7,000, and began to introduce some method into what was then a helter-skelter industry. Borrowing some ideas from auto manufacturers, he offered many different models and sold them through competing dealers. From the garage in Elkhart, Skyline Corp. has spread to a network of 27 plants. This month Skyline will shift its headquarters to Phoenix, where executive talent is more plentiful, but its main manufacturing...
...There is today a worldwide crisis of the environment," says Overview's prospectus. "It stems from the extraordinary mass migration from rural to urban areas in all regions of the planet. It stems from a too rapid increase in population. It stems from helter-skelter urbanization in both the developed and underdeveloped nations. It stems from the abuse and misuse of the earth's resources. The Overview Group believes that the crisis of the environment is rooted in shortcomings-in failures of design, failures of planning, failures of politics...