Word: pedestrians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...human race. Throughout the world, the fishing industry not only supports thousands of fishermen-who lead probably the roughest and most ill-paid lives of any workers-but countless satellite industries. From Madagascar to Greenland, the catch of the sea, ranging from the lordly tuna through the pedestrian cod and herring to the rarer but often treasured whale and shark, is industriously smoked, fried, salted, baked, dried, roasted, stewed, pickled, casseroled or even eaten half-rotten (as in Iceland) or quite raw (as in Japan...
...overpowered in much the same manner that the tropical jungle eventually mastered the great cities of the Yucatan. Take parking lots. A great deal of our open land has been withdrawn to provide parking lots. Nothing is more ugly. Parks and other open spaces restore the land to the pedestrian. These open spaces must be connected by a pedestrian...
...parks are there, the green ways are there, the pedestrian veins and arteries connect them." The university, says Pereira, "will be a real link between town and gown, a place intimately connected with the center of learning...
...eyes of geopoliticians, is just beginning to touch its potential. It sprawls, bigger than France, in Brazil's temperate heartland (see map). It is called Minas Gerais (pronounced mee-nesh jer-aye-eesh). However exotic the words sound in Portuguese, they simply mean General Mines-a most pedestrian description of a land of beauty and wealth...
...pedestrian ramp which passes through the center of the building appears in the designs which Le Corbusier submitted for the Palace of the Soviets in 1931, and was previously included in the Savoye Villa of Poissy, France. The interplay of levels which has come to characterize many of Le Corbusier's recent buildings is largely missing from the Visual Arts Center. The sculptured gracefulness of the Chapel of Ronchamp and the Phillips Pavilion of the Brussels World's Fair finds itself in an abbreviated form in the circular wings of the center and in a distant sort...