Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most convenient retail center for 400,000 people within a 15-minute drive. With huge free parking lots laid out so that cars are never more than a few hundred feet from stores, the decentralized centers spare their customers the fender-bending frustration of wrestling cars through downtown traffic. With an eye out for women drivers, the developers of Seven Corners have even allotted 9-ft.-wide parking spaces, v. the conventional...
Carnival Atmosphere. But the biggest lure of the new supercenters is what Maryland's James Rouse, No. 1 shopping-center financial consultant, promoter and part-owner of Mondawmin, calls their "personal, informal, carnival atmosphere." Frequently screened from the sight, sound and smell of traffic, their malls and walkways are bright with flowers, fountains, tropical birds. At Southdale the 82-acre shopping zone is insulated from suburban Minneapolis by a 240-acre office belt and a 176-acre lakefront residential section. Like Detroit's fabulously successful Northland center (first-year gross: $88 million), a number of the new projects...
Magdalen Madness. The "thing" that rocked Oxford (pop. 98,675) to its 12th century foundations last week was Duncan Sandys' audacious scheme, as Housing and Local Government Minister, for solving Oxford's appalling traffic problem. Ever since automobile and steelmaking factories sprang up around old Oxford's spires a generation ago, practically everybody has agreed that something must be done about diverting cars, trucks and buses from High Street before they shake down the ancient towers that line...
...between Christ Church and Merton College and the crew-splashed "Isis" that is the River Thames. To Christ Church dons the explanation for it all was maddeningly simple: Minister Sandys was an Oxonian, yes, but a Magdalen man! The idea was to steer through the meadow the High Street traffic that now thunders past Sandys' old college over Magdalen Bridge. This, of course, delighted Magdalen and the other half-dozen colleges fronting on High Street. Oxford's city councilors, pleased that Sandys had made the decision they had been ducking for 30 years, also seemed sure to endorse...
...sort of massive force that does not make a fuss but simply thwarts, delays and transforms. The Oxford Preservation Trust, an ancient body dedicated to the maintenance of Oxford's ancient monuments and landmarks, mobilized against the Meadow road. High Street merchants began protesting that diversion of traffic from their doors would bankrupt them. A town planner was found who was ready to prove that the plan was unworkable. The university's ruling Hebdomadal Council met in deepest secrecy and significantly failed to endorse the new scheme. From his Christ Church study overlooking the meadow, the venerable Lord...