Re "Boston Leading a Renewal of Old Northern Cities" (front page, Nov. 3): Rather than serving as a national model, the conversion of Boston's once vital neighborhoods into polluted and gridlocked "urban entertainment zones" designed for the amusement of suburban interlopers and gawking tourists and their cars is a catastrophe in the making.
Derided as "calypso cricketers," the Windies were like fire eaters at an all-inclusive resort: designed for the amusement of foreign patrons.
Droz's dolls were designed for wonder and amusement; Jacques de Vaucanson, creator of a bellows-operated flute player and, most famously, a defecating duck, was more ambitious.
Sometimes you have to move up in the line to wait for a designated amusement-ride car that is designed for wheelchairs.
This is amplified by the film's main setting, an amusement park ostensibly designed for parents hoping to instill joyful memories in their young children.
Large environments that are designed for travel, leisure, and for everyday life – such as transport hubs, amusement parks, and shopping centers – feature different locations that are frequently visited by pedestrians.
My riding focus had never been more intense, and the obstacle course of the trail felt to me as if it had been designed for the pleasure of a challenge, as if it were an amusement park attraction.
This subseries also contains Mangels's plans for the artificial wave-generating machine that he designed for Palisades Amusement Park Fortt Lee, New Jersey), and pleasure railroads for the Ryan Amusement Company (Brooklyn, New York, Palisades Amusement Park Fort Lee, New Jerseyey), Point Breeze Amusement Park (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), and Willow Grove Park Willoww Grove, Pennsylvania).
Intamin's rides are designed for a person weighing an average of 175 pounds, as are most amusement park attractions, Kernacs said.
But the nation's amusement parks have already embraced some of this technology to create rides designed for the hardy of heart.
Also in 1962, he designed two bowling and amusement centers in St . Louisfor Bowling Corporation of America, making a total of 18 centers his firm had designed for that group, as reported in The Times, April 22 , 1962
