Show London Will Be City of Tomorrow When Peace Permits Building By GLADWIN lULL HILL Wide World Features LONDON LONDON LONDON-London London is going to remodel her Times square build a Rockefeller Center and arrange arrange arrange ar ar- ar- ar range a series of squares where pedestrians can bask in blissful security Those are features of ot a 10 year plan of reconstruction to tobe tobe tobe be started immediately after the war that promises to make London a veritable city of to to- to morrow Innovations planned include elevated highways along which pedestrians can walk and peer In story second-story windows of stores and level ground-level shopping shopping shopping shop shop- ping streets from which vehicular vehicular vehicular lar traffic will be excluded The broad outlines of the program program program pro pro- gram have just been disclosed by bythe bythe the Royal academy planning committee of 15 architects and allied experts like Economist Lord formerly John Maynard Keynes headed by Sir Edwin president of the acad acad- emy The committee has been working on the plan for two years The work will cost an estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated only as much as is being spent every two days to fight the war Essence of the plan is the idea conceived years ago by the architect Christopher Wren of transforming London from a city of narrow streets crowded with buildings into a 8 light airy community community community com com- laid out in orderly rectangles rectangles rectangles rec rec- tangles with plenty of plazas The first step will be to surround surround surround sur sur- round London with a foot belt highway and move out to it the half dozen railroad terminals terminals terminals ter ter- now jammed downtown along with the principal markets markets markets mar mar- Smithfield Billingsgate and Covent Garden Covent Garden in the heart of the city is a strange mixture of cabbages and contraltos A farming plot centuries ago it somehow became the site of the Covent Garden opera house so that when anybody spoke of a 8 distinguished figure in Covent Garden you have never been able to tell whether they were talkIng talking talking talk- talk Ing about a grocer green-grocer or a Galli Gaul The new new railroad terminals along the belt will be under under- ground and connected by a 8 new circular subway Euston St St. Pancras and Kings King's Cross stations stations stations sta sta- 1 long familiar to readers of Sherlock Holmes as the takeoff takeoff takeoff take take- off points for many of his adventures adventures adventures ad ad- ventures will be combined into inlo one terminal Piccadilly Circus London's Times square where old ladies peddle flowers at the foot of the statue of Eros will be transformed transformed transformed trans trans- formed into a rectangle by the elimination of some old buildings buildings buildings build build- ings including the famous Monaco's Monico's Monico's Mon- Mon ico's acos restaurant St. St Pauls Paul's cathedral will be given a wide clear vista down to the Thames by completing the work started by a couple of German land mines In eliminating eliminating eliminating ing the intervening old build build- ings There will be no skyscrapers built the architects say to avoid cutting off light from the multitude of old four and five rive story buildings that will remain but some taller buildings will wil be erected Once the work is started see a vast change in five years Sir Edwin says and a avery avery avery very different London in ten |