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...Greek polls (city) and has left man such varied gifts as "printing and books, rational theology, the scientific revolution, investment capitalism and bureaucracy." The emerging era of the supercity, Cox argues, grows out of town culture, but is qualitatively different; it is characterized by automation and mass communication, superhighway mobility, and the anonymity demanded by high-rise living. The style of life in the secular city is both pragmatic and profane. For practical-minded technopolitan man, "life is a set of problems, not an unfathomable mystery." He is too engrossed in grappling with the realities of this life to have...
...cooperación popular, a self-help plan for rural Indian communities in which the government provides tools and technical advice and the Indians build roads and airstrips. But he has been able to make only a token start on his favorite project: a vast superhighway system across the Andes to open the fertile Amazon Valley to settlers...
...tooling along the superhighway when the signs suddenly begin to snap up before your eyes. You want to get off at the interchange. But where? There it is -no -yes -better hurry -and you spin into the cloverleaf with the sickening feeling that you're probably wrong and doomed to go miles out of your...
...Superhighway of the Sun," a four-lane expressway that avoids all cities and villages on its course, will move steadily southward and eventually connect with Sicily at the Strait of Messina, serving as a vital economic life line for the entire region. It is only the latest of Italy's ambitious efforts to help Il Mezzogiorno (which means midday) move, in one great leap, from a medieval society directly into the age of automation...
...profound creative challenge for an architect; clergy and congregations are among the most open-minded of clients. Yet they do not often concede the degree of freedom given to Italian Architect Giovanni Michelucci, 73, in his new Church of St. John the Baptist. His client was the governmental superhighway authority (modeled on the New York Port Authority) that built the Autostrada del Sole from Milan to Naples. It wanted a memorial to dead highway-builders, and put no limitations of time, size, form or budget on Architect Michelucci...