4548 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS February 27, 1974 IN THE COAST GUARD by the Senate and aippeared in the Congres­ Ellers, to be lieutenant (j.g.), and ending sional Record on February 7, 1974. Coast Guard nominations beginning Ray­ Thomas J. Rice, to be ensign, which nomi- IN THE NATIONAL 0cEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC nations were received by the Senate and ap­ mond K. Kostuk, to be lieutenant (j.g.), ADMINISTRATION and ending Robert C. Winter, to 'be lieuten­ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin­ peared in the Congressional Record on Feb­ ant (j.g.), which nominations were received istration nominations beginning Daniel S. ruary 18, 1974. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS CEDAR-RIVERSIDE DEVELOPMENT in live far out, and those who work far out camouflage ugly walls. Half the street acre­ PROVIDES ENERGY-EFFICIENT live close in. It is a perfect set-up for the age has been vacated to consolidate the land petroleum industry. into large tracts for building complexes and LIFESTYLE The real energy crisis, then, is the drain for open space. A new pedestrian transport on human energy. The average commuter system is being built at second-floor level to spends a month of daylight hours every year take the place of unneeded street mileage. HON. BILL FRENZEL beating his way over the concrete trails be­ And an elongated town center plaza and sur­ OF MINNESOTA tween home and job. If people were con­ rounding buildings wlll keep the motor ve­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sidered as important as fossil fuels, someone hicles below the surface. Wednesday, February 27, 1974 would have appointed a human energy czar Projects such as Cedar-Riverside point out in charge of rebuilding the cities. the best thing about a gasoline shortage: Mr. FRENZEL. Mr. Speaker, the Feb­ Planned communittes around the world most things that need to be done to cope ruary 11 issue of the Washington Post are beginning to show how systems of urban \Vlth it a.re things that ought to be done carried an article by Mr. Wilfred Owen, living can be designed for people rather than anyway. It is time for the richest country in for business. A city designed for human pur­ the world to overcome the poverty of its a senior fellow at Brookings Institution, poses provides good housing in a pleasant cities. It will take a combination of national about the energy crisis and the design of neighborhood with the option of living near economic reforms to reduce poverty, massive our urban environment. The article work, walking to the store, having recreation housing programs, new land-use planning points out very well the close relationship nearby, and reducing the unnecessary travel policies, and institutional arrangements for between our present patterns of urban that results from the inconvenience of hav­ managing and financing the urban habitat. development and the energy shortages. ing things located in the wrong places. Those But we know from new communities around Planning is the key phrase which is who prefer perpetual motion have the option the world that building and rebuilding whole emphasized when Mr. Owen discusses of generating extra mileage if they want. By cities is physically possible and can prove contrast most unplanned urban areas deny financially feasible through cost-saving the solutions to our present energy di­ people those choices. techniques, new design concepts, a combina­ lemma, and Cedar-Riverside, the "new Planned cities are demonstrating that tion of public and private efforts, and the town within town" in Minneapolis, is large-scale city-building is physically and use for community purposes of the profits cited as an example of the type of plan­ economically feasible and that many of the from rising land values. ning he feels is increasingly needed. design concepts, as well as the financing Transforming urban America would re­ Ideas for revitalizing the central city methods and community social systems, quire a single urban development fund to are not new to Minneapolis. For years the could apply to existing cities and suburbs. consolidate federal aid for urban areas, and scourge of subzero winter temperatures The federal government ls now supporting the creation of urban development agencies planned urbanization through loan guaran­ at the metropolitan level with city-bullding made working in downtown Minneapolis tees to help pay land acquisition and other responsibilities. a depressing experience for many. In an­ front-end costs. Planned cities may be either Making urban areas livable, desirable, and swer to this, the planners came up with satellites of old cities, such as Reston or attractive for people of all incomes and races a modern and coordinated "skyway" sys­ Columbia., or rehabilitation of blighted areas is the overriding domestic challenge for the tem, now being copied all over the coun­ in existing cities. Cedar-Riverside in Minne­ last quarter of this century. Putting the em­ try. In addition, Minneapolis has had apolis is one of the latter. phasis on living instead of moving is a shift its share of other innovative ideas such What is happening in Ceda.r-RiverSlide in priorities that seems bound to save gaso­ points the way toward transforming urban line. If we put our minds to it, it might even as the Nicollet Mall Gateway Center. slums and blight all over America. A private save urban society. Urban environments will doubtless city-bullding team, which operates out of a. change at a faster rate, because of the converted ice cream factory, is in the process energy crisis. But in Minneapolis, the of redesigning a depressed and depressing 100 acres of the old city into a new city for need for change has already been iden­ ARTHUR C. PERRY, DEAN OF AD~ tified and its relationship to future en­ 30,000 people. The result wm be an attractive downtown community just 12 blocks from MINlSTRATORS, AND L. B. J. ergy conswnption is well established. the center of downtown Minneapolis and a FRIEND The article by Mr. Owen follows: few steps from the University of Minnesota. SAVING GAS-AND SOCIETY The Cedar-Riverside planners have put to­ (By Wilfred Owen) gether over 400 separate parcels of "charm­ HON. J. J. PICKLE The gasoline shortage focuses attention on ing slum" property in an effort to rebuild the OF TEXAS whole place in a way that wlll restore "the a fundamental defect of the American city: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES We are using our ability to move to compen­ enjoyment and celebration of Ufe," with due sate for our inability to build a satisfactory consideration for the wishes of existing ten­ Wednesday, February 27, 1974 ants. All of them, if they wish, wlll be in­ urban environment. Mr. PICKLE. Mr. Speaker, every one What we are up against is the obsolescence cluded in the new community. The aim is to of the accidental city, which puts a pre­ combine good housing, pleasant neighbor­ of us in this room knows how important mium on moving because it offers so little in hoods, easy access to jobs, good health-care it is to have a good person in charge of the way of living. Va.st central city areas are services, improvements 1n education, provi­ the staff back in the office. Everyone in plagued by poor housing and inadequate sions for recreation, and a wide range of cul­ this room knows that without an ad­ services, neighborhoods a.re rocked by drugs tural activities. A theatre in the round has ministrator to manage the fiow of work and crime, and the ugliness ls all-pervading. been fashioned out of a pizza parlor, and beer across our desks and the fiow of people Under those circumstances the automobile joints have become centers for the perform­ ing arts. High-rise apartments have both in and out, without someone who can has become the logical method of escape to to be dormitory suburbs, where driving is a. neces­ subsidized and unsubsidized units in a mix represent us when we have three or sary means of surviving: it may take a gal­ that conceals which ts which, and day-care four places at one time, that our jobs lon of gas to buy a quart of milk. centers, clinics and other community facll- become much harder, and even impos­ The suburban commuter life-style in­ 1ties are located in the apartment buildings. sible to manage. creased 100 per cent in the past decade in Much of the surroundings wlll be refurbished One of the best men ever to perform Dallas and Houston, 84 per cent in New Or­ rather than destroyed. this service was Arthur C. Perry. He was leans, and 56 per cent in Pittsburgh. Nation­ Already Cedar Avenue, the once dingy wide, reverse commuting was up 79 per cent, main commercial street has lost its typical indeed the dean of administrators, for reflecting the fact that poor people and city street pallor. The poles and wires are his service in that capaeity nea.rJ.y blacks living in center cities are unable to down, the sidewalks are repaved, store fronts spanned this century to date. find either housing or acceptance close to are being renovated. Pocket parks are being He was a good man, an able man, a Jobs in outlying areas. Those who work close substituted for vacant lots. Colorful murals dedicated man, and he cared not only February 27, 1974 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 4549 about those he worked for but about more dedicated to the preservation of the duce the price of gasoline at the pump by enabling them to do their best possible democratic process ..." Mr. Johnson said. as much as four cents a gallon.