Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...site will rise an 800-room convention hotel shaped on one side like a terraced pyramid, equipped on another with a 16 story enclosed garden court. There will be three theaters (two of them for live drama), art galleries, shops, restaurants and even a wine museum. A fountain-dotted pedestrian mall two stories above traffic-clogged streets will link the buildings with one another and with the adjoining $150 million Golden Gateway renewal project of elegant apartments, town houses and offices. The developers budgeted...
Unfortunately though, Opus is a mixed bag. Too often the editors have succumbed to the pedestrian urge to assert their vitality. They have avoided the embarrassment of a here-we-are introduction by having no introduction at all. But they celebrate themselves in the approved modern manner: by celebrating copulation...
...Crook is the tragicomic tale of four film-flammed factory workers who quit their pedestrian jobs to go on a crime-filled joyride through the streets of Paris. A quartet of cut-rate Belmon-dos, they see themselves essentially as Robin Hoods, but swiftly become a pack of robbing hoods; their crimes escalate from glomming some gum to heisting a locomotive to kidnaping an actress...
...Beautiful Capital has come up with one of the more ambitious beautification schemes since Kubla Khan landscaped Xanadu. Conceived by Landscape Architect Lawrence Halprin, the master plan, to be executed with some $15 million in public and private contributions, would turn the city's labyrinthine back alleys into pedestrian greenways or community plazas, vacant lots into vest-pocket parks, and dreary asphalt into brick or patterned pavement. Like Lady Bird, who is now on the list for the first time, Washington ought to become one of the ten best dressed in the world...
Waterside will be a mixing place in yet another sense. Not only will the large central plaza, planned to descend in terraces to boat landings at the river's edge, include shops, a restaurant and theater; it will also be tied to Manhattan by an overhead pedestrian bridge and two vehicular underpasses beneath the F.D.R. Memorial Drive. A parking area for 740 cars will be provided on a second level under the plaza. "We want to make the area a 24-hour sort of place," says Brody, who expects that the plaza will become a rendezvous for people from...