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...kids then graduate to "Make Your Own World." Eleven teams with an equal vote represent farmers, jobless workers and real estate developers as well as such usually disenfranchised interests as air, forests, soil-even deer. Playing the role of master planner, the teacher affixes overlay pictures of various new projects to the magnetic game board. She reads from a card describing each project's environmental consequences-the good and the bad. An industrial park, for example, brings 1) economic prosperity, 2) a larger population that will need additional space-consuming highways, and 3) air pollution. The kids then decide...
Packed with statistics-income changes within the region, population shifts, growth patterns-the study offers a framework for logical action. It is already yielding some benefits. Detroit Edison will place its power transmission lines down utility corridors proposed by the planner. Michigan's highway department will henceforth leave room on the center strip of new expressways for alternate forms of future transit...
Vincent Ponte is a little-known planner who stands at the opposite end of the spectrum from Doxiadis. Instead of designing huge urban regions, Ponte concentrates on small, heavily used plots in downtown areas. His specialty is multilevel traffic systems; his showpiece is Montreal. His emphasis: practicality. "Downtown pays for at least 20% of a city's real estate taxes," he says. "Shouldn't we take care of a goose that lays such a golden...
...firms are being liquidated. A business recovery could also be stopped dead by an auto strike in September. Labor militance has been aggravated by the economic downturn, and wage raises are as inflationary as ever. The Administration had expected just the opposite effect. Last October, a top Government economic planner asserted: "If I were a labor leader, I would not look for those 8% settlements any more." The statement only proved his incapacity to be a labor leader. Union contract settlements in 1970's first quarter averaged exactly 8%, v. 6.7% in the equivalent period last year...
...movement and U.S. education's alleged failure to spur women to pursue intellectual careers. Conceived a year ago by 15 women students and teachers, San Diego's program breezed through the school's male-dominated academic senate last month. In fact, says one planner, "We received more resistance from women who didn't feel the program was needed." One hitch was the history department's refusal to label a new women's course "herstory...