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...media for the city of the future. And the attempt to preserve large tracts of hillside is unrealistic when the eastern seaboard of this country will be entirely covered with building in the next half century. "The philosophy of Reston is focused too much on the picturesque and the pedestrian," says one planner, "and it ignores the dynamic, rich, and pertinent part of our society--cars, industry, technology...
Doug Levinson composed the incidental jazz and plays it on the piano. His work is professional, if somewhat pedestrian, and interesting enough to hold you listening between lines...
First, the tracks would be covered by a continuous concrete vault that would muffle train noise. Atop the vault would run a traffic-free pedestrian mall dotted with shops, restaurants, theaters and schools and connected to new mixed-income housing on either side. Since the new Harlem apartment buildings would be bigger than the tenements they replace, the planners hope to encourage racial integration. Moreover, because the project would be built in stages, people living in the path of construction could immediately move into adjacent completed portions, thus minimizing urban renewal's thorniest political and human problem-relocation...
...site will rise an 800-room convention hotel shaped on one side like a terraced pyramid, equipped on another with a 16 story enclosed garden court. There will be three theaters (two of them for live drama), art galleries, shops, restaurants and even a wine museum. A fountain-dotted pedestrian mall two stories above traffic-clogged streets will link the buildings with one another and with the adjoining $150 million Golden Gateway renewal project of elegant apartments, town houses and offices. The developers budgeted...
Unfortunately though, Opus is a mixed bag. Too often the editors have succumbed to the pedestrian urge to assert their vitality. They have avoided the embarrassment of a here-we-are introduction by having no introduction at all. But they celebrate themselves in the approved modern manner: by celebrating copulation...