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Much of what is wrong with Cambridge is not the city's fault--Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, must make conscious decisions to end their needless expansion into residential neighborhoods. There are other problems the city will have to face--maintaining a diverse city in the face of rising costs and increasing gentrification, or allowing economic development without sacrificing the high quality of life. But Cambridge deserves a celebration this weekend. It has come much further than most American cities, and it has the resources and the pride to go much further still...
...most of them--like the over-ventilated Science Center--reflect the lack of energy-efficient planning. But energy costs skyrocketed last spring--this year's budget for energy is half again as large as last year's--the Faculty commissioned a group of experts to propose means for reducing needless consumption in those buildings without affecting the day-to-day life of the University...
...auto industry, as well as for U.S. industry in general. Tax laws need to be changed to make it easier to raise capital to replace obsolete factories and to speed the write-off of new investment. Regulations should be re-examined to separate the necessary and helpful from the needless and expensive. The Environmental Protection Agency last week gave Detroit some relief, when it decided to drop a 1982 exhaust emissions test requirement. This will save the industry $250 to $350 million...
...Needless to say, city officials are panicked by the prospect that the proposition will pass. If they lose at the ballot box, they'll go to the state for special home rule legislation exempting the city, and they may try to stage a local referendum on the issue. If they're unsuccessful, it may make Cambridge's other problems irrelevant. After all, how can you desegregate a boarded-up school...
...mammoth consignment of modernist Russian art to the Pompidou Center's exhibition, "Paris-Moscow, 1900-1930"- while at the same time ensuring, by the threat of cancellation, that no proper discussion of the relations between art and politics in postrevolutionary Russia could be raised in the catalogue. (Needless to say, the show could not be seen in the Soviet Union in any form...