European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                As Daiuto Magazine its apartments mushroom at frantic Pace to Cope with Urban explosion in Europe. Chi inia he twp Central Rotterdam destroyed by German bombs in 1940 above emerged from ashes As modern shopping Center below. Displaced residents moved to suburbs. Sas monday january 27, 1969 the stars and stripes by Lynn he1nzerling, a staff writer living space is running out Inmany of Europe s great cities. And still the people swarm in from the hinterlands to seek their fortunes and places to live in already packed metropolitan areas. More than a third of Britain s popu lation of 52 million already is crowded into greater London and the area with in 50 Miles around it. The britons in this Region Are expected to increase four million to a total of 22 million in the next 20 years. French Farmers have swarmed int Paris since world War ii from their Small poor paying farms. Paris and it suburbs have swollen from 6.7 million frenchmen in 1938 to 9.5 million. This in a City where More than a Quarter of the apartment buildings Are at least100 years old and Only 50 per cent of them contain bathrooms. Rome has grown from a City of million inhabitants 20 years ago to 2,250,000. Milan jumped from just under million to 1.7 million. Turin n o w bulges with 1,143,000 compared with600,000 at the end of the War. Housing developments came along sofas that Many new Home owners in Italy found themselves without roads or sewage systems. Rome still has the pleasant Villa Borghese in the Centero the City but it has less greenery than any other european  s population has tripled since cent turd of puff Page 11