Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some $2 billion worth of major construction is under way or planned in the metropolitan area. A 454-acre midtown tract of slums called Mill Creek Valley, filled 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...
...only recently awakened to the fact that the forests have been badly overexploited. Finland's wage-price spiral rises unchecked, largely because of welfare state benefits that are beyond its means. The Finns are such heavy topers that the government wraps every bottle of liquor in a temperance tract. More worrisome for a nation of only 4,500,000 is the legal abortion rate, which has doubled in ten years, and at 71.6 per 1,000 is one of Europe's highest. There are an estimated 20,000 illegal abortions yearly as well...
Jungles and an Aviary. Individual architects such as Edward D. Stone and Philip C. Johnson have designed custom-built atrium houses for private clients in years past. But only lately have mass builders begun to adopt the style. Pacesetter Homes set 169 atria on a tract in San Clemente, Calif., and Builder William J. Levitt-of the Levittown Levitts -includes a version of the house in his 1,450-unit development currently abuilding near Cape Kennedy, Fla. Greatest enthusiast is California's Joseph L. Eichler, who has built some 3,000 houses in 31 development tracts in the last...
...fact, Eichler's Lucas Valley, some 20 miles north of San Francisco, is a demonstration of just how handsome tract-housing can be. Surrounded on two sides by mountains, the site is spacious and richly wooded. But what is most impressive is not the way the houses look from the outside but the other way around; and inside-out, the view is spectacular. No two of the 550 approximately 300-sq.-ft. patios are the same: the Frederick Bradleys' holds a slender Japanese maple and a jungle of flowers, while the John Hamrens have surfaced theirs with pebbles...
...merchant builders, who buy land by the tract and sow it with houses, architecture is usually something to do without. Architects, they feel, are too prone to run up costs with perfectionists' details, and too preoccupied with niceties that are wasted on development customers, who don't care much what a house looks like so long as there are plenty of appliances in the kitchen...