Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continued, "You can stand in Harvard Square and see a pedestrian run out in front of a car going 20 miles an hour and expect it to stop." This sort of jaywalking must be halted, he said...
...modest claim to independence, it helped Pompidou's emerging political image. So does his knack for working out compromises between industry and the workers, who are besieging the inflation-ridden De Gaulle regime with demands for wage increases. In his increasingly frequent TV appearances, he is somewhat pedestrian, but also shows a certain folksy appeal. Watching him on the screen, De Gaulle himself once said appreciatively: "Good. Louis XVIII in modern dress." He was referring to the first Bourbon king restored to the throne after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, a man who combined prudence with a ready...
...impressive. More than 181 acres of slums, amounting to roughly 85% of Norfolk's whole downtown area, have been knocked down and replaced with some $42 million worth of new buildings. Last week plans for a $100 million medical center were announced. A grassed and tree-lined pedestrian mall has replaced Main Street. The world's largest coal-loading dock has been built by the Norfolk and Western Railroad, and savings and loan assets have quadrupled in the past ten years. Population has doubled since the war. And with the bridge, the city will finally be converted from...
...Politicians and many planners have never really understood what planning really is," he said. Blake emphasized that in the future all rational urban design must utilize so-called "grid designs" which would bring private city services, office buildings, pedestrian plazas, and even highways together in multi-level structures...
Wiggins hinted broadly that the University will support most of the report's proposals which include a pedestrian bridge between the Yard and Memorial Hall and extensive use of one-way streets in the Square area...