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...Francesca Yetunde Pereira (Nigeria...
...Right about there we're going to put a city of 100,000 people," he said, pointing. The "he" is William Pereira, California architect and planner, the subject of a cover story on the men who try to find new ways of making urban living an open space once more...
...French satellite city outside Toulouse to house 100,000 people?in which the planners are doing as much as the politicians and statesmen to determine how men will live tomorrow. And the planner who has the most to plan with is the man in the Bentley: William Leonard Pereira, 54, an architect from Chicago who is pinning more and more of the state of California on his drawing board. Pereira's name is unknown to most Americans, and of course among professionals he hardly ranks with Athenian Constantinos Doxiadis, planner of Islamabad, the huge new capital of Pakistan. Nor does...
California's Bill Pereira is dealing with no monuments, no national sentiments, no cities-in-vacuum. He has had the luck?helped by hard work and great skill?to fall into something truly unique: the chance?and the challenge ?to build a huge new community alongside the urban disorder of the boom town of the boom state in the boom country of the world. It is a golden opportunity, and no one is more aware of the fact than Pereira himself...
...intact, used, where it was used at all, mainly as agricultural land and citrus groves. In recent years, its disposal has been the subject of considerable squabbling among the heirs. They finally agreed to have it planned as a regional whole, and to rent it out to private builders. Pereira got the design...