Word: riverfronts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cities with proven experience in planning Atlanta's Peachtree Center and San Francisco's Embarcadero Center. Said Ford: "We all know what Chicago has done with its lakefront area. I think we in Detroit should be able to do at least as well along our own riverfront area...
...date he has secured options on the riverfront property. Next the city must transfer its holdings to Ford Motor's Land Development Corp., which will supervise planning and construction. "The size of the development is such that no single company can handle it by itself," Ford explained. "We want and need the participation of other companies to bring the plan to reality...
...against any more expansion of the universities--the city will probably keep the same mix of rich and poor, and we just ought to face it, and start building the city up," he added. "I'm in favor of the university building high-rise, high-income condominiums along the riverfront, so the tax base will go up. How else are we going to keep this a first rate community...
...Boudreau turns positively sentimental when he talks about the beauty of the land. "What a wonderful world we would have if we could see beauty all the time." Sentimental or not, he personally ensures that every community he visits cleans up its riverfront. In that, he may or may not succeed this week when he takes his charges to New York. On a barge provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, Boudreau will sail the superpolluted Hudson and East rivers to give concerts at Yonkers and the Henry Street Settlement on Manhattan's Lower East Side...
Bulldozing Begins. The councilmen's raison was that a growing city like Paris must find workable compromises between nostalgia and practicality. But the conservationists had a particularly strong point. Already the quais along the Seine are disappearing behind riverfront expressways; part of the Tuileries Gardens are to be dug up for an underground telephone exchange; and the skyline of Montparnasse has been scarred by high-rises. Next week, the bulldozing of Les Halles is scheduled to begin, and the city intends to keep riot police on guard to prevent squatters from impeding the wreckers. Unless there is an unforeseen...