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...Harvard is proposing something contrary to what their own Design School set as factual parameters," said Harvard Square preservationist Gladys Gifford, Gifford recalled a 1984 Graduate School of Design study--whose purpose was to suggest strategies for limiting development in Harvard Square--which targeted the south side of Mt. Auburn St. as dangerously susceptible to development...
...Harvard is not being forthcoming." Gifford added, saying that she thinks the sale of the building from Bank St. Associates to Harvard is conditional upon removal from rent control. But Uribe said that his group is currently leasing the building from Harvard...
...such design innovations probably would not be enough to quell the aesthetic fears of Harvard Square residents. "There's a place for MacDonalds in society, but they don't have to be everywhere," Gifford said. "It would be a shame to have Harvard Square go the same way as other urban areas and becoming homogenized...
...Gifford disagreed, saying that the discouragement of fast food places is part of a larger concern about the "quality of life in the Square...
...convenience issue, it's what's best for the area," Gifford said. The existence of national fast food chains would mean the end of Square mainstays such as Bartley's and Elsie's, she added...