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Wolf, 63, has held virtually every civic office, from mayor to state party caucus member to school committee member. Galluccio, 29, has served on the city council a mere three years...
...might participate, is within reach by foot--suburbia calls for survival by automobile. Now, cars in and of themselves aren't evil contraptions. But reliance on these impersonal person-movers furthers the atomization of life. A trip to the store provides little or no opportunity to engage in the civic life of the community, if there is even a community at the "heart" of suburbia. The automobile has had the doubly adverse effect of destroying small towns and villages from the inside, by clogging the streets, and from the outside, by drawing consumer-citizens out of the town square...
...those who desire hearty communal life. After all, we could envision concentric circles of strip malls and certainly we could not deem that a worthy town. The town must be a complex reflecting the diversity of individuals' social lives. In the village center, we must find outlets for civic passion, artistic expression, the appreciation of nature, the economic needs of the consumer, the elegance of society and the mixture of masses. Unfortunately, if you visit town nuclei outside decent cities like Cambridge, there is nothing there...
...excellent analysis of the legal basis for the tragic American landscape printed in the September issue of Atlantic Monthly, James Howard Kunstler cites zoning codes as the source for our current civic discontent. Originally, zoning was a response to industrialization, a determination by the inhabitants of a town that they would not be overwhelmed by immense factories. After WWII, zoning codes became even more restrictive so as to separate most aspects of life from each other. Today, Kunstler says, "What zoning produces is suburban sprawl, which must be understood as the product of a particular set of instructions.... [This] model...
...have relatives, a big national family picnic. Which is why on the first day, politicians were banished from sight. Actor Christopher Reeve barely mentioned Clinton in his speech, and when he talked about government, it was to describe it as the benign paternalistic arm ready to embrace America's civic life as a mirror of the homes baby boomers grew up in. Sarah Brady, the gun-control advocate, brought her wheelchair-bound husband onstage to deliver another above-the-fray message: Guns kill kids too. And of course Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to center stage with a coolly effective defense...