Category: Social change

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An aerial view taken many months ago of the Bellefontaine section of Le Mirail. Its huge concrete pedestrian deck, the dalle, is under construction at top of picture. (SETOMIP photo)

Le Mirail: A Study In Concrete

An aerial view taken many months ago of the Bellefontaine section of Le Mirail. Its huge concrete pedestrian deck, the dalle, is under construction at top of picture. (SETOMIP photo) From inside an automobile circling the first nearly completed section of Le Mirail on the

The Last of the Independents?

Anchorage, Alaska March 24, 1972   The people of Anaktuvuk Pass were the last of Alaska’s independent Eskimos. For centuries they followed the track of the migratory caribou through the Brooks Range far north of the Arctic Circle. They were proud to call themselves “Inupiat”

(Photos courtesy of Alyeska Pipeline) Simulated Pipeline – Most of the animals detoured, a few used ramps and underpasses and several crawled under the fence.

Caribou Versus Pipeline: Can They Take it in Stride?

Anchorage, Alaska March 19, 1972   The Pipeline Will Do For The Caribou What The Railroad Did For The Buffalo! That’s the theme of a current conservationist poster and, if the proposed trans-Alaskan oil pipeline does block caribou migration, it bodes a cold and hungry

Lively downtown Tel Aviv at night. (E. Pikovsky Ltd. photo)

Israel’s Second Generation New Towns

For many tourists and resident foreigners, Jerusalem is the place to be in Israel. Among the countless emotional touchstones and historical reminders in and around its ancient walled “old city” are important shrines of three major religions: the excavated western (“wailing”) wall of the Hebrews’