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...been concerned with the real life of cities as opposed to the conventional urban wisdom of planners and architects. A former Fortune editor, he belongs to a small band of journalists who have alerted laymen to the folly of the two extreme approaches to the hearts of our cities: neglect and cataclysmic "renewal." Among Whyte's allies are Grady Clay, formerly of the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, now editor of Landscape Architecture magazine, and Jane Jacobs, who is teaching at Toronto. In the 1958 anthology The Exploding Metropolis, Jacobs wrote, "The point. . . is to work with the city. Bedraggled...
Vellucci last May denounced the conditions of neglect as "the recipe for fire, and called for the creation of the new rehabilitation program...
...gathering light of dawn. But this is not a Hollywood fantasy. It is Indonesia's Borobudur, the world's largest and probably most mysterious Buddhist monument, which will be rededicated this week as a national shrine and tourist attraction after being rescued from decades of neglect...
...where some residents put up a defense against attacking militiamen, a bomb crater is filled with old auto tires and a rusted tank trap. Raw sewage oozes up to create a black slick on the muddy rain water that covers the street. The major exception to the aura of neglect is a small corner of Shatila that is under the care of a United Nations relief agency. Elsewhere, Norwegian and Austrian relief workers have supplied materials to residents for rebuilding their homes and opened a clinic and a kindergarten on the site of similar facilities formerly operated...
...price; in Chesterton's case it was an excess of surface and a lack of consistency. At his death in 1936 he was called a master without a masterpiece, and his value rapidly diminished. If the writer's celebrity was disproportionate, so has been his recent neglect. The Outline of Sanity seeks to correct the imbalance...