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...first post as school committeewoman, Barbara Ackermann found herself in the minority as a member of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), a liberal reform civic group which has a party status in Cambridge city politics and now controls five out of the nine city councillor spots. The superintendent was an "independent" and was difficult to work with. "It was frustrating being in the minority and not in the same party as my superintendent Ackermann said so I established goals people couldn't be against--libraries, which at that time weren't in any of the schools. That's where...
...finest on the strip, a reduction in the hourly price for the use of a Howard Hughes helicopter, and the company of an official of the electric sign company, the group spent ten days in Las Vegas in an attempt to document and analyze urban sprawl. Fearing that the civic beautification commission would turn the strip into a Western Champs-Elysses by obscuring the neon signs with trees or that the local planning board would prevail upon gas station owners to imitate the architecture of the casinos in the interest of architectural unity, Venturi and group hurried to sing...
...Architect F.R.S. Yorke, and designed in 1936 a small completely innovative pavilion at an exhibition in Bristol. Its taut glass juxtaposed with romantically rough walls of stone, it enclosed a beautifully proportioned space, and architects everywhere began to talk about Breuer. Even more striking was a project for the "Civic Center of the Future" that contained a lively assortment of innovative building shapes-Y-shaped, stepped-back and cantilevered structures, slabs, buildings on stilts. It was, in effect, Breuer's prediction of works that he would build more than 20 years later...
Relying on civic-minded citizens to resolve social problems through the lowest levels of government is, of course, sweet-sounding democratic theory. Indeed, one innovation in Nixon's New American Revolution was this goal of localizing some responsibilities. Nixon's only enacted measure to promote that shift has been general revenue sharing, under which some $5.3 billion of federal tax money is being reverted to states and cities this year for them to spend as they see fit. Spread thinly everywhere, including suburbia (where it will often be used to reduce local taxes), this will not provide the resources...
...developer is under no legal commitment to alter the proposed tower, but local neighborhood groups have indicated they will continue to fight any building that they feel is detrimental to the Square environment. The civic groups have said they are most concerned about the bulk and design of the building, parking facilities, and traffic flow...