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Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021
Most Nebraskans are familiar with our unique state Capitol building in Lincoln, which was designed by New York architect Bertram Goodhue and built in four phases over 10 years. It was completed in 1932.
What few residents probably know is that in 1922, just as Capitol construction was beginning, Goodhue also proposed a seven-block, wide avenue to create a beautiful north entrance to the new Capitol building.
By 1937, Lincoln city leaders, along with state officials, designated 120 feet of right of way reaching from the Capitol steps north to the University of Nebraska city campus.
Although a commission was assigned development of this new mall area, nothing happened until the state’s centennial celebration in 1967. Centennial Mall was born, with a series of fountains stretching to the Capitol on the south end and the Nebraska State Historical Society headquarters on the north end.
These works of art show why cities will endure
By Mark Feeney Globe Staff,Updated April 22, 2021, 1 hour ago
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Fran Lebowitz surveys a scale model of New York at the Queens Museum in Pretend It s a City. COURTESY OF NETFLIX
âA culture, we all know, is made by cities,â Derek Walcott said in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Walcott spent many years teaching at Boston University, so it would be nice to think that Boston was at least somewhere in the poetâs mind when he wrote those words, in 1992.
This city has changed enormously in the nearly three decades since â Big Dig, Seaport, the list goes on â but nothing like the changes that may await all cities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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San Diego’s Waterfront: a driving tour [Los Angeles Times :: BC-UST-SANDIEGO-DRIVE:LA]
SAN DIEGO If you’ve been to San Diego, you’ve probably navigated Harbor Drive. It’s the busy street running from Point Loma to downtown that passes the airport and skirts the harbor. It makes a fine driving tour for anyone interested in architecture and California history, on land or water.
Here’s a 10-stop itinerary. To give it extra resonance, hunt down and read Max Miller’s “I Cover the Waterfront” (1932), a world-weary portrait (part Thornton Wilder, part Raymond Chandler, part Herman Melville) of this neighborhood nearly a century ago.
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1. Liberty Station
Liberty Station was once the Naval Training Center, San Diego. It’s now restaurants, shops and art groups.
(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
In its first life, Liberty Station was the Naval Training Center, San Diego, where thousands of recruits learned Navy ways, beginning in 1923. After the Navy shuttered the training complex in 1997, the city teamed with developers to preserve and transform its Spanish Colonial Revival campus, which was influenced by Bertram Goodhue’s trend-setting designs for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park. The project added dozens of restaurants, shops, housing, sports and arts groups some of which are open at reduced capacity; check before you go.