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...deeper, more fundamental elements of old-fashioned urban coherence. Calthorpe agrees emphatically. "You can have nice streets, and you can put trees back on them, and you can make beautiful buildings with front porches again, but if the only place it leads is out to the expressway, then we are going to have the same environment all over again...
...treads, another column of armored vehicles rumbled into the capital city. This time the advancing forces were greeted with an outburst of exultation that rivaled the liberation of Paris during World War II. As columns of Kuwaiti and Saudi tanks and personnel carriers rolled up the battered, wreckage-strewn expressway into Kuwait City, civilian cars formed a convoy around them, horns honking, flags waving. Crowds along the way danced and chanted, "Allah akbar!" "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" and "Thank you, thank you!" Thousands swarmed onto the streets, embracing and kissing the arriving soldiers...
...last major highway projects to be proposed in Boston have been stopped short by concerns about neighborhood destruction and the seizing of homes. The Inner Belt and the Southeast Expressway, would have threatened the destruction of several thousand homes two decades ago. Both the Belt and the Expressway should have been stopped and they were...
...Scheme Z doesn't threaten any homes. In fact, its prime backers, former Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and Frederick P. Salvucci, were leaders in the fight against the Belt and Expressway...
...m.p.h. "VSP design and marketing are a direct result of French laws that define a category of vehicles for which no driver's license is required," says Philippe de la Jousseliniere, head of City Car, a Paris-based dealership. Like motorbikes, VSPs are barred from French highways and expressway bypasses. "On paper, VSP specs are those of a motorbike," says Christian Malet, whose Liberty Car service in Paris rents out Marden S.A.'s Alize model. "But on the road, make no mistake about...