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it is the fundamental basis of a beautiful highway, the way it is 

 located and the way it is designed. I think we are developing that 

 and I think we will develop it further in the future and I think more 

 States will become involved in it. 



I have to say, Mr. Ryan, in reply to one statement you made, if 

 you are in a flat country like the boot heel of southeast Missouri, I 

 would hate to try to live there if I were on a curvilinear alignment 

 and develop artificial hills and hollows in that particular area where 

 they make quite a bit of money growing cotton. 



Mr. HALPRIN. I just want to say in this regard, that we keep on 

 coming back to the road alignment out in the country. As Professor 

 Buchanan pointed out, we pretty much know how to do it, it is now 

 a matter of doing it. Where the R. & D. he is talking about is needed 

 is in cities. We have to understand that we are involved in a 

 new urban form that is changing the face of our cities. Architec- 

 ture and planning and urban design and freeway movement all have 

 to be integrated into some complex series of things that you might 

 call traffic architecture. Nobody, to my knowledge, except a few 

 forward thinking people in mixed fields has been thinking about 

 this. I urge you, as I think Bill has been trying to do, to think about 

 doing research which would look toward a new kind of traffic 

 architecture which involved urban design in cities. 



Mrs. JOHN WAINWRIGHT. This has been exceedingly stimulating 

 for those of us in government to hear because the discussion has 

 primarily been around design. Unfortunately, in Bade County, 

 Florida, we now have to live with some design that hasn't proven 

 to be very satisfactory. We therefore now have to apply the cosmetic 

 approach to that portion of the interstate highway that has been 

 constructed. This is not the fault of Mr. Whitton ; it is unfortunately 

 the fault of agencies such as those in the State of Florida. We are 

 at the point where the Federal funds are available. On behalf of 

 my city I would like to make some suggestions for the consideration 

 of the panel and the Bureau of Public Roads. 



First of all, we have currently been working on the beautification 

 of that portion of the expressway already constructed. Fortunately, 

 the city of Miami has a landscape architect that we could lend to 

 the State of Florida to do design; otherwise, there is no profession- 

 ally trained person to deal with this problem. We, therefore, urge 

 that, for landscape design purposes, the work be done by profes- 

 sionally trained landscape architects, particularly those that are 



