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Even under the new reform, central planners in Moscow will continue to make many key decisions on prices, distribution and allocation of materials. The dead hand of the planner falls most heavily on agriculture, which is the weakest sector of the Soviet economy; the U.S.S.R. will again this year be forced to make massive grain purchases in the West. Though about 30% of the population is engaged in agriculture, the farm yields remain unsatisfactory, largely because of shortages in good fertilizer and such modern machinery as combines. Because the country lacks sufficient storage and processing facilities, each year about...
Robert A. Boyer, City Planner, has said the Library should provide 1000 spaces for the site, but Corporation spokesmen say they cannot afford that many spaces
Farms will be mixed with factories and homes to provide what Neil Pinney, MXC's chief architect-planner, calls "a rural-urban balance" throughout the city. Nowhere in MXC will there be skyscrapers ("Psychologically alienating," says Pinney, who used to work with Los Angeles City Planner William Pereira). In their place will be "megastructures" complete with their own housing units, streets and transit systems...
...present the proposed center is known only as Pithat Rajah (Approach to Rafah). The community is a planner's dream. Two-thirds of the population will live in twelve-story high-rise apartments. The remainder will occupy semidetached houses, eight families to an acre. Many of their social needs have already been slide-ruled and computerized: 30 students to a class room, a movie theater for each 3,500 families, four acres of sports facilities for every 1,000 families...
...America from the Bauhaus, and has dominated the nation's cityscapes ever since. But the past decade has not been kind to the International Style. As the last "rational" abstract mode of building, it has been much attacked as unresponsive to human needs. The architect as master planner, exerting in his structures a pressure, both functional and ethical, on the messy, changing lives of their inhabitants, now seems to some critics an elitist figure, and obsolete as well. And certainly much of classical modern architecture as descended from Gropius and Mies van der Rohe was conceived in a spirit...