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Rouse, 67, considers himself a developer, but is best described as an urban visionary. Over the past five years, in such innovative ventures as Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Philadelphia's Gallery at Market Street East and Santa Monica...
...million, created 2,300 jobs and returned to the city more than $1.1 million in taxes. More important, it has lived up to Master Planner Rouse's criterion of the inner city as "a warm and human place, with diversity of choice, full of festival and delight." Like Faneuil Hall Marketplace, it has helped restore a sense of community and vitality to a divided, decaying, once apathetic older city...
According to the performers themselves, the Boston area--meaning Faneuil Hall and Harvard Squre--now rivals San Francisco as the street entertainment capital of the nation. Acts like the Back Alley troupe pass through Cambridge on cross-country jaunts "just to be able to say we've played the Square--it's quite a big deal," says Van Alstyne. Magician Peter Sosna, who insists he's the only guy in town who can perform Houdini's identity-switching act on the street, points out that some people rank New York's Washington Square Park ahead of Cambridge. "No way. They...
...stood fast on racial harmony; after a welter of racially motivated assaults in 1976, he led a march of 30,000 people to protest violence. During his tenure, Boston has rebuilt its downtown and waterfront, added thousands of hotel rooms and sold itself, accurately, as "the livable city." Faneuil Hall Marketplace is the ultimate urban mall...
This radicalized view of society led John to participate in a variety of political activities off and on campus. He helped organize a Harvard human rights group, and became involved in peace work. "I did a 72-hour vigil and fast with Mobilization for Survival at Faneuil Hall, and that was an introduction to a tradition of opposition to nuclear weapons. That really led me in another direction." The intensity of his involvement also introduced him to "burnout" by the middle of his sophomore year. "I started realizing that from seven in the morning until one the next morning...