Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GUESS YOU can't expect corporations and real estate developers to spend money for aesthetics. But you can force them to. The developers stepped all over the City of Boston when these monstrosities were approved. Both towers were in violation of existing zoning laws. The sites are so desirable that allowing certain violations should have garnered the city considerable leverage for getting better buildings...
...construction is, of course, good for a city's economy-it brings tax money. lunchtime shoppers and employees who will want to live in the inner city. But it should be possible to get all that and good urban design too. For example, the Prudential Center didn't have to cloister itself on its side of Boylston Street. Set far back from the sidewalk, it destroys the street front which is crucial to Back Bay. The escalators which presumably lead into it are no substitute for store fronts and other visual and physical openings. Also, the whole development...
...advisory committee approved last March the concept of multiple funding for the Camrbridge Project, but only the Defense Department has granted money to the Project so far. Philip J. Stone III, professor of Social Relations and a member of the advisory committee, wrote to the National Science Foundation (NSF) last week, urging that it ask for a significant increase in Congressional appropriations to NSF for computer applications in the social sciences...
...million as seed money for the Black Planning Network to begin community centers and a communications network for black students at different schools...
...money, the network plans to set up community centers where city planners can meet with community leaders, and non-professional planners...