March/April
2000
The
Empty Square
If casual social encounters are at the heart of civic
life, where did everybody go?
By Alan Ehrenhalt
Backstage at Radio City
Restoration offers gleaming public spaces and, backstage,
a chance for old equipment to shine alongside the
new.
By Wendy Smith
Twenty Steps to Better Burbs
What one person can do to make a suburban neighborhood
a better place.
By Anne Matthews
"V" is for Vault
A new alphabet book from the Library of Congress focuses
on architectural elements.
By Robert Wilson
O'er the Ramparts
If art commissioned by the U.S. military is really
art, doesn't it belong in a museum?
By Christopher Shea
L.A.'s Split Personality
What can Grand Avenue's austere elegance
learn from Broadway's teeming seediness, and
vice versa?
By Stanley Abercrombie
Preservation News
Transitions • Reno implodes
the Mapes Hotel • Neighborhood commercial
districts in Boston ride a booming regional economy
• Help is on the way for
the worn alleys of San Francisco's Chinatown
• A Sense of Cyberplace: Confederate Shipwreck
• A Cincinnati neighborhood
observatory • Hunt House, a landmark of
the women's rights movement, is bought by trusts
for restoration as a public museum • Providence,
R.I., wrestles with a modern addition to its classical
temple • Dallas' neon Pegasus •
Will a bomb-damaged historic
YMCA survive the dedication of Oklahoma City's
memorial? • Who's News
Place: Returning to Fort Ticonderoga, a boyhood
haunt, a historian finds authenticity replacing romantic
fancy.
By Maurice Isserman
Ideal City: On their waterfronts, cities worldwide
find identities linked to their past as well as a
place to build their future.
By Alex Krieger
Traveler: Mississippi's Gulf Coast
Along its historic gulf coast, Mississippi does its
best imitation of Las Vegas.
By Roy Hoffman
The Back Page: Outdoor sculpture runs from the inspirational
to the wacky.
By Dwight Young |
