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...week I worked to help set up the People's Translation Services in Berkeley, a collective gathering leftist material from Europe and putting out a news service for under-ground newspapers. That was without pay, so for ten to fifteen hours a week I worked with an urban planner whose specialty was commercial signs: billboards, neon signs, electric lights. I worked for him for nine months, helping him to write a book, but it was terrible. But it was PTS that drove me to law school. I felt it wasn't concrete contact with people, that it was no real...
Many of the small and tightly knit ethnic communities that once dotted virtually every U.S. city have crumbled under the planner's rezoning and renewal schemes and the bulldozer's giant blade. One community that has successfully resisted the encroachment of urbanization is "the Hill," a 56-block, largely Italian area on the south side of St. Louis, where Yogi Berra and Joe Garagiola grew up. After a series of fierce, emotion-charged struggles with local, state and federal officials, Hill residents now boast a model community that has the lowest crime rate and the highest property values...
Another conference planner, Rosanne Kumins, assistant to the director of Harvard's Center for Criminal Justice, said yesterday that other speakers would include representatives of the Office of the General Council to the University, the Harvard Police Department, and the Rape Crisis Center, a community organization offering services to rape victims...
...some big price increases. That approach is swiftly becoming the focus of what little sharp criticism he gets. Simon is the obvious target for those dismayed by the soaring cost of fuel, because as FEO head he is the nation's energy price controller as well as policy planner and allocator in chief...
Acknowledging that there is a potential for abuse in any surveillance system, Ted Howard, senior planner of the Office of Midtown Planning and Development, suggests that crime has abridged the civil liberties of those who want to go to Times Square. "Most people I've talked to don't mind the cameras out there because they feel a little safer," says...