Word: forms
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Before proceeding effectively, Lynch explained, existing conditions in any city must be investigated to form "a springboard for your plans." A recent survey showed that middle-class Bostonians did find coherence in their impressions of the city. No survey of Cambridge has been carried out yet, though some Cambridge residents are to take part in a forthcoming poll of the metropolitan area...
According to Lynch, the next step towards visual planning on a large scale is to form ad hoc committees of people with various backgrounds. By attempting to communicate with each other such committee may devise the graphic language needed to lift urban designing out of the stereotyped rut. They would also indicate the general form a city's development should take, be asserted...
General della Rovere (in Italian). Back in his top form of the 1940s, Roberto (Open City) Rossellini directs a poignant piece about a trivial swindler - brilliantly played by Vittorio De Sica - who stops impersonating the role of a wartime hero to become...
...airships Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg, who never fully recovered from burns suffered as he leaped from the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg when it exploded in Lakehurst, N.J. in 1937 (killing 36 people), but who steadfastly argued to the end that helium-filled dirigibles were the cheapest, safest and most comfortable form of air travel; of pneumonia; in Frankfort, West Germany...
...tons of asphalt an hour. It will finish in 70 days a 65-mile stretch of highway which was scheduled to take 150 days. Milwaukee's Chain Belt Co. sells a paving machine that squeezes concrete out like toothpaste onto a roadbed without laying any pre-built forms. It slides its own form along with it eliminates twelve to 15 men. General Motors Euclid division developed a machine with giant hydraulically operated teeth that rip out rock at considerably less cost than blasting...