Word: pedestrianism
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...plan which would help fund University investigations into the problems confronted by the Square. He says he is encouraged by recent studies, such as one undertaken by a group of GSD students in the Joint City Planning/Urban Design Workshop in June, which made policy proposals for greater pedestrian access to the Square and for more public green spaces; Smith would like to see more...
...idea which intrigues Smith is the construction of one or more pedestrian malls in underutilized space in the Square. Pedestrian malls would, after all, alleviate to some extent the myriad parking problems faced by-the Square...
...Williams, 33, was driving home from her invalid mother's house in the Catholic Andersontown district of Belfast on the afternoon of Aug. 10 when she saw a car spin out of control, its IRA driver shot through the heart by a British soldier. The car slammed a pedestrian, Anne Maguire, and her three children against a school railing. Maguire, a mechanic's wife, was so seriously hurt that as she lay in an intensive-care ward at Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital last week, she still did not know that the three children-Joanne, 8, John...
Down on the streets, there is another kind of new look. Central cities are now paying increasing attention to the pedestrian and his comforts. Spokane, continuing a development started for its Expo '74, is building a system of second-story walkways so that people can stroll among six city blocks without ever going outside; Minneapolis already has a similar skywalk. New York is chipping at its concrete canyons with vest-pocket parks, small oases of greenery and water amid the granite, glass and asphalt. Most U.S. cities have become aware of the humanizing influence of gardens, fountains, plazas...
...real split caucus in the Cambridge community about the jugglers who give street shows on the island on Brattle Street on weekend nights. They must be doing something right, because the crowds they attract are huge and enthusiastic--on the other hand, some Cantabridgeans object to the congestion in pedestrian traffic that results. Some others also resent the bullshit involved in this pale imitation of New Left "street entertainment for the people...