Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blake singled out highway planners for special criticism. "We can no longer afford to have our cities, in effect, shaped or mis-shaped by technicians whose sole interest is getting so many thousands of cars per hour from one place to another...
...time has come for our cities to be shaped, not by highway engineers, but by urban designers and planners who start with the human needs of cities and then subordinate all the services required--including superhighways--to those human needs," he said at a press conference...
...seems to me it is more important for people to get to the water than to have cars running up and down a highway," he said...
...highway sign's last line is no longer a gag in Pleasantville, a farm center near Des Moines, where friendly people now call one another Communists or John Birchers, 19 of the town's 34 teachers have quit, and replacements cannot be found to teach 700 children...
...nature of high-speed expressways that the slightest obstruction, like a pebble in a rifle barrel, creates chaos. Martin's skid jammed traffic for ten miles, blocked the highway for three hours...