Word: planners
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...Monderman, that inquiry began with the more prosaic challenge of getting cars to slow down. Like every transport planner faced with the relentless proliferation of motor vehicles, he had started out by assiduously putting up signs, painting lines and devising new traffic-calming projects. One of his early specialties was to place giant flowerpots in the road to make drivers hit the brakes. But in 1982, Monderman risked a bolder approach, redesigning the street layout of car-clogged Frisian towns and villages. He began by removing the road signs, traffic lights and surface markings, then set about eliminating the curb...
...street gangs that Leonard Bernstein made famous in West Side Story. But by the early 1960s, the various components of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the first cluster of arts buildings in the U.S., were rising from their foundations. As intended by Robert Moses, the indomitable city planner, Philharmonic Hall, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York State Theater and so on transformed the surrounding streets. Almost all that remains of the run-down old neighborhood is what you can see of it in the movie version of West Side Story, which was filmed partly in the tenements, long...
...University’s chief planner, Kathy A. Spiegelman, dismissed allegations that the school did not take the residents’ concerns into account...
Harvard’s Allston expansion, by comparison, will cover about 200 acres of Allston. “Universities all over America are now finding they have to plan expansion and growth, particularly in science,” said Kathy A. Spiegelman, Harvard’s chief Allston planner...
...aren’t as lucrative get a little support from their families. There is one person I know who’s not doing finance,” he says, of a friend who did not go to Harvard. “She’s a party planner, but she gets support from her parents, who are rich.” Missing from the equation are those neither in finance nor children of wealthy parents...