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...legislature passed the law last spring, it left adoption and enforcement up to the individual communities. unless the City adopts the anti-jay-walking measure, Rudolph says, the Commonwealth will deny Cambridge's legal to enforce certain kinds of new traffic laws. This would apply to motor vehicle or pedestrian rulings at any new traffic light the city installs, or at any traffic light system now operating which underrgoes repair of revision...
Closeness & Surprise. The automobile has so spread out stores and clogged up streets that the only solution is to cluster shops together again, the way they traditionally were, and let the shopper get out and walk. Shopping centers with "pedestrian malls" proliferate across the land. But too many urban planners seem to be still thinking of the automobile, laying out their malls with bleak, wide-open spaces that provide neither pleasure for the sauntering eye nor convenience for the foot-weary shopper...
...Pedestrian malls should contain "elements of surprise," says Wolfe. "Not only should the streets jog, meander or curve, but the architectural features must change and probably not be absolutely repetitive and consistent." This produces a "system of arrested views." Wolfe feels that no vista should be longer than 600 ft. to 700 ft., as in what he calls "one of the most exciting walkways in the world": the route from the Piazza San Marco to the Rialto in Venice...
...aware that all these figures relate to only one dimension, that of measured academic performance. Nothing has been said about whether these students--sunmma or not--have had the kind of education we wish to offer, or whether they are "tragic cases" for reasons not reflected in this somewhat pedestrian review of their grade record...
Despite increased support from many Portuguese who approve Salazar's ruthless suppression of the Angola revolt, the regime's unpopularity showed itself in the crowds that queued for admission to opposition meetings and showered even the most pedestrian speakers with wild applause. Under the dour eyes of police at Lisbon's dingy old Republican Center last week, they chorused "Down with fascism" as candidates denounced government "terrorism" in Africa, Portugal's "medieval" police state and meager living standards (per capita income: less than $200 a year). Said one opposition leader: "We are being forced to live...