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Smith's house is relatively comfortable, a book-filled two-story cottage under a geodesic dome. Smith serves not only as pastor but also as school principal, ombudsman and civic planner. How, he prods a meeting of neighborhood residents, can we get more water pipes extended into the houses? When he walks his rounds through the back streets of Mamelodi, youngsters playing soccer call out the one word that is both recognition and greeting: "Smith! Smith...
According to State Transportation Authority planner Frank Bracagila, Salvucci's plan would relieve jams on Routes 2 and 16 by "getting local traffic onto the regional highway network." To do this, he said the plan would elevate Route 2, add new lanes and ramps to the existing highway and build access roads to carry Route 16 traffic away from the Route 2 rotary...
Mieth questioned the safety of a system which would merge eight lanes into two lanes on a relatively short stretch of highway. "It will create more problems than it solves," the planner added...
Author Robert A. Caro, whose book on the legendary city planner Robert Moses was a Pulitzer-prizewinning study of the exercise of urban power, decries Koch's lack of vision. "The physical transformation of a city changes it for generations, for centuries. I see a city being cemented into place against the sky -- a city of monstrous buildings, with a disregard for human scale, human values. Koch is building a big city, not a great one. The Koch administration, I fear, will go down in history surrounded by shadows, the shadow of corruption and the shadows cast by enormous buildings...
Mass-MoCA would operate independently of Williams, but members of the school's faculty are helping to select the museum's art and the college museum's director, Thomas Krens, is the chief planner and negotiator for the proposed museum's long-term art loans...