Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problems of a major city," he says, "but on a manageable level. I feel we're a great laboratory in that sense." One thing that helps enormously is the high level of citizen involvement in everything from antiwar rallies through school board meetings to Fourth of July block parties. "I like the fact that the town gets aroused over issues," says James Lytle, vice president of the State National Bank, which is housed in a 21-story building that looms large in Evanston's downtown business district...
...settlement on the rim of the New York metropolitan area-Newark and East Orange and Orange and Maplewood and Irvington and Bloomfield and Glen Ridge. There are no green belts, no distinct borders: instead, there are parkways, railroads, and political boundaries that may run through the middle of a block. Main Street in East Orange becomes Main Street in Orange, and except for the change in house numbers, one town melts into another. Near the center of East Orange is a giant cross formed by the interchange between the Garden State Parkway and still incomplete Interstate 280. "Crossroads...
...Oilman and Industrialist Robert McCulloch, 59, arranged the improbable purchase of the London Bridge, which was not exactly falling down into the Thames but was badly in need of replacement. The granite balustrades, corbels, facings, cutwaters and retaining walls-10,000 tons in all-were shipped block by block across ocean and desert to be reconstructed in Lake Havasu City, an Arizona town developed from scratch by McCulloch Oil. Buying a bridge, then building a canal to divert water from the Colorado River for the bridge to cross, was an act of commercial savvy as well as historical piety...
Most U.S. cities welcome new skyscrapers as soaring proof that a town is on the go. San Francisco is different. Tall towers, local boosters insist, tend to destroy the city's special charm. They can block long views over pastel-colored houses and the sparkling bay, disrupt the roller-coaster sequence of hills and valleys. Still, as a peninsula city, San Francisco has nowhere to expand but up. It now bristles with skyscrapers, 21 of them built in the past five years. Gloomy citizens fear that the city will soon be "Manhattanized," that it will become a senseless jumble...
...past six years, the ivy on a block of seven buildings north of the Yard has been left unsprayed, as an experiment to see whether nature could control pests better than chemicals. The study is now complete and indicates that after a few years unsprayed ivy can be as pest-free as sprayed...