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...education. The National Trust for Historic Preservation helps towns reclaim their heritage through its Main Street program, and most of the 1,500 communities on board sent representatives to workshops in Boston, where the opening ceremony turned into a pep rally for the resurrection of the American downtown. The room was filled with stories of vacant storefronts reopening, of hard-fought triumphs over ridiculous zoning restrictions and blockheaded indifference to architectural heritage, of seniors moving like yuppies into hip lofts above Main Street shops. "We're a discard society," Moe told me that day. "But a lot of people...
...what's Fort Madison's secret? A healthy economy for one thing, with blue- and white-color jobs at Sheaffer pens, Dupont, Dial, Wabash National and a state prison. A sweet, leafy residential area within walking distance of downtown and the riverfront park, for another. And Fort Madison has the dumb luck of being too small to attract the kind of super discount stores that work like neutron bombs on downtowns, leaving the buildings standing but destroying all life forms...
...East Cambridge, went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Tom majored in engineering, Ray in humanities) and still live a few blocks from each other in the suburbs. They don't leave the Boston area much. "We did a book tour," says Ray. "We went to Worcester, downtown Boston and Brookline. Worcester was a schlep...
This area was named Kansas City, after the Kansas River, before Kansas became a state. Kansas City, Kan., lies directly to the west of the downtown area and is mostly made up of residential areas and some industrial buildings...
...fall and spring, I watch the small white sails tacking together on the Charles with envy as I ride the MBTA to Boston. I'm from San Francisco, where sailing is the preferred mode of transportation--some downtown commuters still take their boats to and from Sausalito every morning. The prospect of sailing on the Thames didn't, understandably, phase...