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...Planning Livable Cities (1979). Von Eckardt was a recipient of one of the first Ford Foundation grants for writers in the arts, and is the holder of an American Institute of Architects medal for distinguished criticism of architecture. Two weeks ago he was in the noted "new town" of Tapiola, Finland, to receive the Tapiola medal for promoting the idea of well-designed planned communities...
...unique to the U.S. There are now more than two dozen "garden cities" in Britain, housing 1,250,000 people. The French plan to build six new towns near Paris before the 21st century. The Netherlands, Sweden and Russia have already built a number of new towns. Tapiola, Finland, an urban Shangri-la six miles from Helsinki, is the new town that comes closest to meeting the ideal. Tapiola's main shopping center is a magnificent paved plaza. Nearby are a movie house, theater, hotel and swimming pool. Since no house is more than 250 yards from a shopping...
...Jobs for Residents. Though roughly 100 communities that are described by their developers as new towns have been constructed or are now abuilding in the U.S., few even approach Tapiola-or Scotland's Cumbernauld and England's Welwyn, for that matter. Too often, the U.S. new towns have proved to be little more than well-planned upper-and middle-class suburbs that provide few jobs for residents and no homes for lower-income workers...
DELIUS: SUMMER EVENING and PRELUDE TO IRMELIN (Seraphim). Sir Thomas Beecham again, magically confecting these drifting, dreaming selections by the blind composer whose works he espoused. Sir Thomas also conducts the tone poem Tapiola by Sibelius, a masterly evocation of the forest god Tapio and his mysterious Finnish woodlands...
...quite so luscious as U.S. strings, not so dry and nasal as the French. The woodwinds, clearly articulate, played with a tone of pure gold. It was a glossily polished performance-for some a disappointment because of its fussiness. But all in all, through Sibelius' tone poem Tapiola, a Beethoven Eighth Symphony laid out with the precision and charm of an English garden, and a final lurid "Dance of the Seven Veils" from Richard Strauss's Salome, the audience heard distinctively clean-clipped accents and gorgeous sonorities unmarred by a single ugly sound...