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...same time) that high-rise construction is surely not, for once, the only practical option. But the pair will take the easy way out, designing housing wholesale. What about all the new passengers added to overburdened mass transit? Says Trump airily: "We'll renovate a couple of subway stations, et cetera, et cetera." Planners of housing for the poor realized years ago that isolated high-rise flats foster a dangerous anomie. Condo buyers may be unlikely to join street gangs, but Television City will be an interesting experiment: extreme swank and large-scale alienation, together for the first time...
...Motor City, where the car is king, has steered away from any large-scale mass transit since the Michigan legislature unsuccessfully proposed a subway in 1905. But in 1982, after Congress overrode Reagan Administration objections, both Detroit and Miami were given a green light to begin work on People Movers. The Detroit project, 80% federally funded, is one of the first U.S. tests for the innovative train, which works something like a horizontal elevator, the cars powered by electromagnetic thrust. Originally, Detroit planners hoped the People Mover would link up with a proposed area-wide light-rail commuter system. Although...
...gebrecht) has a little trouble getting dates. Heaven knows why: she weighs in the low 200s, has a face as remorseless as a gulag commandant's and works as a corpse dresser in a Munich mortuary. Then one day she lays eyes on Eisi (Eisi Gulp), a dishy young subway conductor. Lust at first sight has rarely been so transforming. Marianne's stolid features crack into a swooning smile. Armed with subway schedules and candy bars and tarted up in a dress that must have come from Friedrich's of Heidelberg, she prowls the underground for her erotic prey. Will...
...some cases, people are successfully pressing claims that seem patently silly. One example: a man who attempted suicide by jumping in front of a subway train sued the New York City Transit Authority, contending that the motorman of the subway that hit him had been negligently slow in bringing the train to a halt. He won $650,000 in an out-of-court settlement...
...picture Washington, New York City and the Silicon Valley rolled into one, a city that has hosted the best-ever Olympics, managed severe water and land shortages and built 11 new suburbs, five subway lines and miles of highways, all while preserving its unique history without exhausting its finances, then maybe you can begin to imagine what it's like to be Huang Yan. It's her job to create that city out of present-day Beijing. As Deputy Head of the city's Urban Planning Commission and a key player in preparations for the 2008 Olympics, Huang is taking...