Word: pedestrianized
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...brick, so as to blend harmoniously into the neighboring Business School. Its four buildings are of various heights, rising backward from the river to provide everyone with a view, and various shapes, so as not to seem too monotonous and regimented. There are a series of interior pedestrian plazas, studded with trees and benches, for people to walk it. There are communal facilities. The complex is only ten minutes' walk from Harvard Square. It overlooks the Charles. It's near the major traffic arteries...
...they're supposed to. The building shapes that look so pleasing in schematic drawings in real life form a confusing jumble, one in which it's hard to tell where the order is. The red brick, while offset by inset balconies and windows, is still massive and intimidating. The pedestrian areas are claustrophobic, their trees in neat rows or sunk in cement, quite unlikely to be the site of casual gatherings. The river is nearby, but so is the noisy traffic on Soldiers Field Road, Western Ave. and the Mass Pike. The complex's curious siting isolates it from most...
Traffic will be banned from a stretch of Memorial Drive extending from Western Avenue to the Eliot Bridge tomorrow between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., as announced last month, converting the roadway and adjacent bank of the Charles into a pedestrian mall...
...minutes into his arguments for the need of stricter traffic regulations, Ahmed Aly Moursy pauses, groping for the English word describing a person travelling on foot. "Pedestrian," ventures a thirtyish-looking woman on his right, and Moursy resumes his talk...
Armisted said that he does not expect the road closing to have any adverse effects on the University and that the pedestrian mall proposal is "at least a great thing...