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FORT WORTH

"The most magic plan and the largest and the boldest and the most complete dealing with the American city that I have seen was done by Victor Gruen Associates for Fort Worth, Texas ... It is a wonderful image of what the city could become."

James W. Rouse
From an address to the
Conference of Mayors, Washington, D.C., 1960


"The plan by Victor Gruen Associates for Fort Worth is an outstanding example ... its main purpose is to enliven the streets with variety and detail. This is a point being overlooked by most of the more than eighty cities that, at last count, were seriously considering emulation of the Gruen Plan's traffic principles."

Jane Jacobs
The Exploding Metropolis
the Editors of Fortune, 1958


"The Gruen Plan is perhaps the most mature American response to date to the crisis of the central city."

James Marston Fitch
Architecture and the Esthetics of Plenty, 1961

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[[image - aerial photograph of the Gruen Plan executed in Fort Worth, Texas]]