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...Antonio Pala's plan was simple enough: prohibit all private cars from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. and from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. from the 35-block, 25-acre heart of the city's shopping center (see map). Shoppers would thus have an "isola pedonale"-a pedestrian island-all to themselves during peak hours save for buses and taxis. All seemed bellissimo when the plan went into effect: children calmly played soccer at the foot of the Spanish steps, where autos once hurtled blithely by; grown-ups ambled wonderingly down the center of the fashionable Via Condotti...
Netsch used the cold, durable materials of the city-concrete, granite, hard-surfaced brick-to build his university. Mindful that 28,500 students will soon swarm its halls, he barred automobiles from the campus in favor of elevated pedestrian expressways that connect the actual city outside with the academic core of the college. The crisp, die-straight expressways are bordered by stone bollards and giant chains. From the four points of the compass, these airborne paths lead to a 300-ft. by 450-ft. elevated slab, a great, raised court that has become the students' principal rendezvous...
...Cambridge City Council gave final approval Monday to the University's $2.3 million project to link the Yard and the Law School by a pedestrian mall. The vote...
Harvard will now build an automobile underpass under Cambridge St., and in return the City will close off part of Kirkland St. behind Memorial Hall. The roof of the underpass and the abandoned part of Kirkland St. will be landscaped to form a continuos pedestrian path between the two parts of the Harvard campus...
...Cambridge City Council will probably approve today Harvard's $2.8 million proposal to link the Law School and the Yard with a pedestrian mall...