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Rejuvenating as Juscelino's shot-in-the-arm may be for the rundown economy of his whole state, its most startling results strike the eye in Minas' young capital city of Belo Horizonte. It was laid out just 60 years ago as a Washington-like model city on...
MANHATTAN, written off long ago by city planners as a dying city because of its jammed-in skyscrapers and canyonlike streets, has defied and amazed its critics with a phenomenal postwar building boom. In the short space of seven years, the big city has grown so fast that if all...
¶ An underground station for 600 buses and a garage for 1,600 cars at Centre Bolivar, a half-completed development of skyscrapers and apartment buildings often compared to New York's Radio City.
For Webb & Knapp, the buildings, all fully rented, will bring in an estimated $2,000,000 a year before taxes. Moreover, says Zeckendorf, the skyscrapers will be more profitable under one control; costs can be cut, possibly by a private power and heating plant for all three, and tenants can...
Columbia, however, does not have the endowment for undergraduate scholarships to compete against other Ivy schools. It lacks the alumni system to contact promising high school seniors. Finally, each time a prospective student is interviewed, the legend of the college in the city cement, among the skyscrapers and the elevated...