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...possible, Culver added, that students will be disrupted by noise, and some pedestrian paths will have to be rerouted...
After I prodded and lobbied Harvard for more than two years, signs finally appeared. These are knee-high and parallel to the direction of pedestrian traffic. Though an improvement on no signs, they are so unobtrusive that they are hard to find and give scant direction to visitors on east-west routes...
Ridicule aside, the consequences of this construction are far more offensive than is apparent to the galled eye. The space in front of the Holyoke Arcade was, until recently, one of the few large, flat and open pedestrian spaces in the Square...
...didn't take long for people to realize what an error Sert's tower, with its primitive strip mall, truly was. Contemporary critics of Holyoke Center, the Prudential Tower, and similar Cold-War pedestrian shopping arcades are right: The Holyoke Center Arcade is an alienating space...
This alienation is intensified by accumulating reports of late-night harassment, a bonechilling wind-tunnel effect and the stench of urine and rubbish. The late 1950s June Cleaver dreamworld of the pedestrian shopping zone has been steadily turning into a nightmare. With the recent departure of the genteel Cambridge Shop (for Ladies) and the Crimson Shop (for Gentlemen), one can imagine the upper echelons of Harvard Real Estate peering down into the morass of the Square and wringing their hands in dismay...