Viewed with alarm by conservative architects and city planners is skyscraping Radio City, the $250.000,000 Rockefeller development on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan (TIME, March 16 et ante.). The design of this cultural-commercial group of buildings, as yet nothing but three excavated city blocks, has been flayed as a "monstrosity." Its construction without adequate transportation planning has been called a "crime" because its inhabitants will congest an already over-congested area. Last week bristle-haired Raymond Mathewson Hood, one of the three designers of Radio City, went to its defense in an interview in which he praised congestion as a great civilizing force.*...
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