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...software and printouts, tend to mutter and mumble about technical imperfections in their still young methodology. Many admit that they erred by simply extrapolating from the trends that seemed evident as the '60s decade ended. Translation: they predicted that the present would persist into the future. Says Boris Pushkarev, vice president of New York's Regional Plan Association: "It's easy to continue trend lines. It's hard to predict changes in trends." Translation: it is hard to know what is going to happen. The '70s were especially hard, according to Peter Schwartz, head...
...curve can be dangerous when one is moving at more than a mile a minute, and no curve at all can be lethal. The new art-science of freeway design forms the most original section of a new book called Man-Made America, by Planners Christopher Tunnard and Boris Pushkarev (Yale...
Hugging or Violating. Authors Tunnard and Pushkarev emphasize the need for an "essential unity of plan and profile"-a short sag on a long curve, for instance, should be avoided in favor of the harmonious gradual one. In fact, the authors recommend continuously curving roadways, on the ground that they not only are more esthetic, but also tend to keep the driver interested and therefore alert. Surprisingly, in the average terrain, such highways are very little, if any, longer, and no more expensive to build than the standard design of straight stretches connected by short curves. Uniform median width should...
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