Word: riverfronts
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...Library's riverfront neighbors--Harvard's Georgian Houses, the Monastery of St. Mary and St. John, and a line of six-story brick apartments--are friendlier. But just outside the yards' northwest corner, Baird Atomic Inc. has a block of three brick manufacturing buildings: another visual headache...
...28th largest city in the U.S. Chicago has 27 redevelopment and four conservation projects that in five years will have transformed 514 city blocks; even Los Angeles, a laggard among the U.S.'s major cities, has 17 projects on 917 acres under way. St. Louis has miles of riverfront teeming with bulldozers and unfinished dreams; San Francisco is ripping and riveting at the rate of about $1,000 a minute; Cleveland is trying to turn itself completely around to re-embrace the waters of Lake Erie (see color pages...
...proposed expenditure," Bernays asserted, "is a waste of the taxpayers' money; the expressway would serve no useful purpose since the Turnpike extension parallels Memorial Drive. The Committee opposes the creation of a Chinese Wall between the people and the riverfront, and it opposes encroachment on play and recreation areas...
...with slum housing that cried out for rebuilding in 1954, is now one of the largest urban-renewal areas in the U.S. A substantial section of it will be set aside for an expressway to link downtown with the major expressways leading out of the city. The long neglected riverfront has been cleared for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park; scheduled for completion there next year is a soaring stainless-steel arch 630 ft. high, designed by the late Eero Saarinen as a monument to St. Louis as Gateway to the West. A seven-block pedestrian mall shaded by trees...
...critics. The Mill Creek slums were bulldozed in 1960, but redevelopment has been so slow that the area is locally dubbed "Hiroshima Flats." The New York Times's Ada Louise Huxtable charged that the rebuilders had razed "the heart and history" of the city by clearing the riverfront. Defenders point out that the storied waterfront had long deteriorated into a grimy morass of dilapidated warehouses, buildings and residences. Developers have been scrupulous in preserving the architectural monuments of the area-the old courthouse and the cathedral-and have stored the best examples of cast-iron storefronts...