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...government was "the problem, not the solution"? The very notion of planning for the common good, especially long-term planning, seems vaguely ... socialist, doesn't it? The Bush Administration is filled with hard-charging executives but bereft of meat-and-potatoes managers. Not much priority is placed on pedestrian things like delivering the ice to New Orleans or keeping the peace in Baghdad...
...fluorescent green and blue boards in the room, were included in a preliminary report released last June by Harvard’s planning firm, but several artistic renditions of the campus are new. One shows a section of Soldiers Field Road, west of North Harvard Street, buried under a pedestrian walkway. There is also a rendering of a ring of buildings resembling Mather House, touted as a “concept for an undergraduate house as a residential village.” Harris S. Band, Harvard’s director of physical planning, said that the image was included just...
...doesn't take long to find out who's king of the road in Freiburg. "Hey! Are you blind?" shouts an imperious cyclist as a pedestrian ambles into a dedicated cycle path. Bikes, trams and buses whiz through the center of this medieval city, but private cars are conspicuously absent. That's because for the past 20 years, this university town nestled in the Black Forest in southwestern Germany has reduced the use of cars by laying down a lattice of bike paths, introducing a flat-rate fare for all public transport, and expanding bus and tram lines. Commuters from...
...effort to mitigate noise from traffic diverted to Cowperthwaite Street during ongoing construction, Harvard Real Estate Services (HRES) has agreed to build a six-foot high barrier in the middle of the street that will still allow traffic and pedestrians to pass through. A wider shuttle turnout area will also be constructed between Dunster and Mather Houses, bringing the sidewalk closer to the entrances of the Houses. Construction of the shuttle turnout area is set to begin sometime this week and should be completed within two weeks, according to Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, one of three Undergraduate...
...coach and teammates, she has responded better than anyone could have expected. From the young of the defensive line to the old, Sara Sedgwick—if only for her senior class status—can be considered the grandma of the group. Yet her play is far from pedestrian. “Sara is adjusting to a new position as a defender and is doing a fantastic job of reading the game and organizing her fellow defenders to stop the attack,” Erickson said. Yet, one of the toughest positions on the field falls on Odorczyk...