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...Swap technology on transportation. Some obvious topics: Soviet experience in cold-weather railroad operation and new underground mass transit systems; U.S. expertise in highway engineering and cargo containerization...
...dwelling units. The buildings may be terrace apartments, set in a step-back arrangement so that the roof of one apartment forms the terrace of the one above. To get residents to work or to shops, a subway line will run under the town, with another transit system (moving sidewalks or gondola cars) connecting the second floor of all the buildings...
...feeling that home ownership is vital to city health. Beyond that, parks and new housing will be added to the mainly Latin American Pilsen neighborhood, and Chinatown will be reoriented toward the Chicago River. For the rundown Cabrini Green area they recommend new housing, job training centers and mass transit to allow residents to travel to work without having...
...entire plan emphatically downplays the automobile. It includes no new superhighways or highway interchanges. "Nothing destroys the community fabric, the neighborhood focus, more than highways," says Harold Jensen of Illinois Center Corp. Instead, a feeder subway line will be built, plus new parking lots at terminal points of mass transit lines. Traffic consultant Bob Maxman of Alan Vorhees & Associates explains: "We tried to give the city not to cars but back to the people...
...largest margin-500,000 votes -in the state's history and within two years was counted among the most successful Governors in the country. His impressive string of accomplishments included stiff environmental protection laws, a no-fault insurance plan, a remarkably popular lottery and a multimillion-dollar mass-transit system. Moreover, he had delighted New Jersey voters by wooing the New York Giants into moving across the Hudson with a new football stadium that will open in 1975. By almost any measure, he seemed a cinch for re-election to a second term this year. ¶Then things began...