"The recent obituaries of gave a measure of tribute to his engineering innovations at . It was undoubtedly he who conceived of tracks, bridges and buildings all in a single structural entity; the double-deck track fan to save space and the loop connection to circulate the trains. It was he who worked out all the details with the first official architects, , but to these winners of the competion for the new station goes the credit for the device for looping on "exterior circumferential elevated driveways" instead of through the centre of the station athwart the concourse as Wilgus had suggested."
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Christopher Tunnard
(published as Christopher Tunnard, July 7, 1910 ā February 13, 1979) was a Canadian-born , , , and author of essays and books. Leaving Canada in 1929, he was educated and worked in England from 1929 to 1939, emigrated to the United States in 1939, and served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. Tunnard, with his coāauthor Boris Pushkarev, won the 1964 in the category of science, philosophy and religion for their 1963 book Man-Made America: Chaos or Control? An Inquiry to Selected
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