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...park] would be an excellent way of providing for open space, pedestrian needs and beautification of the entrance to Harvard Square," said Phoebe M. Brooke, co-chair of the Quincy Square Design Development Committee, a group which helped finalize the proposal presented to the city council...
Residential planners have begun to account implicitly for human nature. They're designing neighborhoods that foster affiliation--large common recreational spaces, extensive pedestrian thoroughfares and even, in some cases, parking spaces that make it hard to hop from car to living room without traversing some turf in between. In effect: drive-in, hunter-gatherer villages...
...Doge's Palace in Venice, down the little canal from the Bridge of Sighs, the Ponte de Paglia groans under the weight of Japanese, Germans, Americans, Frenchmen, Scots, English, Indians, Spaniards, Scandinavians--the whole world milling about in T shirts, polyglotting. It takes five minutes for a pedestrian to push across the bridge, a distance of 30 yds. Venice vanished centuries ago into its tourist shop-museum self, forfeit to the ever flattening demographics of mass tourism...
...Washington, though that and other suggestions have been around for almost all the White House's 200-year history. Indeed, after the initial and rather stealthy shutdown of Pennsylvania Avenue, which carried 26,000 vehicles a day, there was a kind of jubilation over the serenity and pedestrian access to the broad avenue between Lafayette Park and the White House. Hundreds of strollers, Rollerbladers and bicyclists invaded the asphalt with happy shouts...
...federal panel of security experts wants to prevent vehicles from driving in front of the White House by converting a stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue into a pedestrian mall, CNN reported today. The six-member board, seeking toprotect the President from the threat of car bombs, has put together a classified list of recommendations that are being circulated among government agencies and members of Congress, CNN said. The panel was established by ex-Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen after an airplane crashed into the White House last September. In October, 26-year-old Francisco Martin Duran shot 27 rounds of ammunition across...