LILLE – This is a city that boomed a hundred years ago. They couldn’t build workers’ houses fast enough. Now the coal mines are closing and the factories are antique. The houses built in such a hurry are the same hovels they were, and just
September 5, 1969 BRACKNELL, Berks – For a famous place, Bracknell new town is strikingly ordinary. The main sights for the 2000 visitors who toured through last year were shoppers, children playing, and hundreds on hundreds of neat houses with flower gardens in front.
JAN-8/September, 1969 Lerchengasse 28/43 1080 Wien, Austria *(No Image Available) PRAGUE: Hradcany Castle from Charles Bridge *(No Image Available) BUCHAREST: These three ladies are substituting for a street cleaning machine, doing their job in close order along the lengths of Bucharest’s wide avenues. (Photos, except
In the past twenty-five years, Britain has lost an empire and dropped from a world super-power to one of a half dozen medium-rank powers. What does such a decline do to a nation’s political and social institutions? What follows is the first of a series
PARIS – The high rise towers and garden apartments of Sarcelles would seem quite ordinary outside any American city. They mark the familiar sleepy town boomed with city people. In fact, with its attractive trees, somewhat distinctive architecture, walking-distance shopping and general air of liveliness,
