Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dutch urban designers, like De Jong, have been trying to turn traffic control devices into positive forces for enhancing the streetscape, adding a new dimension to the fashionable term livability. They have made the street a social space, a kind of outdoor living room which invites spontaneous interaction between neighbors, particularly children...
...Tuscan village of Collodi (pop. 1,800), where Author Loren-zini spent much of his childhood and whose name he later took as part of his nom de plume, Carlo Collodi. More than 12,000 visitors besieged the picturesque hillside village to tour "Pinocchio Park," a mini-Disneyland featuring outdoor sculptures and mosaics by Italian artists depicting characters out of the 19th century fable like Geppetto the Carpenter and the laughing serpent. Sated with free ice cream, schoolchildren were toted by donkeys past the "Inn of the Red Crawfish";-where the fox and cat plotted against Pinocchio-built by Architect...
...Bird, beguiled children with parents in tow enter a dazzling futuristic playground designed to make pedagogy a pleasure. Created a year ago by the same people who brought you Kermit the Frog, Ernie and Bert, Sesame Place, in the tamed wilds of Bucks County, Pa., unites outdoor "participatory" playgrounds with "handson" scientific exhibits...
Boston officials refused to grant permission for those dates because of potential security problems. But they have maintained than an outdoor crowd would be easier to handle...
...bulbous parts of the billboards, which are attached to a regular outdoor advertisement, are made out of vinyl-coated nylon, and a small electric fan directed inside the air bag keeps them inflated. The inflatables tout everything from hot dogs to radio stations. One in Toronto that shows a 12-ft.-long airplane nose sticking out of an advertisement for Pacific Western Airlines cost $4,000, and a billboard in The Bronx that has a 23-ft-long hand pulling a cigarette out of a 12-ft.-high pack of Kent Golden Lights...