modern architects and planners alike. Disney, with whatever hokum, revived it, and in doing so brought into being a public awareness of architecture's fundamental dimension, which has to be that of the town, the city, the human settlement entire. So the visitors to Main Street, pedestrians all, and looking for all the world like actors in a play -- how affecting that was, because the city is, after all, a theatre for human acts -- took back home with them the unshakable conviction that their own Main Streets might be saved from the automobiles and the shopping malls and all the horrors of Redevelopment that were destroying them everywhere.

But Main Street did more than provide a foil to modernist urban design. It also, Scully writes, inspired Americans toto the Journal, the 1MDB fund declined to comment on the recent accusations. However, it said in a separate statement on Feb.19 that it “has not paid any funds to the personal accounts of the Prime Minister.”

The 1MDB scandal also led Singapore to seize several bank accounts in the past couple of months, as part of its investigation into possible money laundering. Investigations into the fund's finances have also been opened in Malaysia, the United States, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore and Abu Dhabi, the Journal said.