Word: pedestrians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brief, Le Corbusier advocated "cities of tomorrow" composed of immense, largely self-contained apartment blocks, widely spaced in open parks. Bands of superhighways would weave about these superblocks, while a network of smaller roads and pedestrian walks would connect individual units...
Several years after the publication of the Principles, Gertrude Stein '97 arrived at Radcliffe. She elected to concentrate--if such a pedestrian word is proper--in psychology. Like Alice Toklas, James had great respect for her intelligence; he publicly acclaimed her the most outstanding woman student of his long teaching career...
Uneasy Truce. As the uneasy truce ticked away, the CAB's Boyd flew to London last week for a showdown. Timed to coincide with his arrival was the White House release of President Kennedy's long-awaited new aviation policy. The policy was disappointingly vague and pedestrian in most respects, but it did make one point abundantly clear: the U.S. favors lower fares and is willing to fight I.A.T.A. to achieve them...
...blocks opposite the Treadway Motor House would be demolished to form a "super block," and the City would be ready to build. The proposed development, which the Board has tentatively named "University Plaza," might include convention and cultural centers, hotels and motels, and medical offices and research facilities. A pedestrian mall over Mt. Auburn Street would link it to Brattle Square...
Cecil A. Roberts, director of the Planning Office, said yesterday that Mem Hall was not officially considered "expendable," and that there were no present plans to demolish it. He said the idea of a pedestrian mall had come from Cambridge and not the University...