A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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City planning project is discussed; by 1970 it would remake Fort Worth's heart into mile-square, traffic-free shopping and business oasis, rimmed by depressed loop highway feeding shoppers' and commuters' cars into six perimeter garages, from which traffic would move only by electric shuttles or on foot through leafy pedestrian malls and plazas; service deliveries to buildings would be made through tunnels; from plan only part of peripheral highway has been realized, in modified form.
City planning project is discussed; by 1970 it would remake Fort Worth's heart into mile-square, traffic-free shopping and business oasis, rimmed by depressed loop highway feeding shoppers' and commuters' cars into six perimeter garages, from which traffic would move only by electric shuttles or on foot through leafy pedestrian malls and plazas; service deliveries to buildings would be made through tunnels; from plan only part of peripheral highway has been realized, in modified form.
What's happened in Fort Worth
Arch Forum
Lowe, J.R. (author)
Architectural Forum ; 110
1959
4 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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