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...questions. It was the result of a resolution sponsored at the last regular School Committee meeting by member Patricia M. Nolan ’80, a sharp critic of the school district’s leadership.The roundtable began with a presentation by Clifford Cook, a Cambridge city planner, who showed long-term data indicating that the number of children born and living in Cambridge has declined over the past several decades. Superintendent of Schools Thomas Fowler-Finn repeatedly interrupted the presentation, drawing conclusions from each data set in an attempt to attribute the decline more to population trends than...
...fastest-growing markets for dragon-boat racing is the corporate retreat in need of a little excitement. "You can have a big sales meeting, boring meetings for three days, and then one afternoon, we can work with the event planner and produce a four-hour mini-dragon-boat regatta for 500 people," Kerkmann says. It's one of the few sports that can accommodate people of any size and any level of fitness, as long as they can keep their paddle dipping in and out of the water in time with their teammates. "There are no heroes...
...more or less waterlogged. It sits in a bowl that averages 9 ft. below sea level, with Lake Pontchartrain brimming to its north, the Mississippi River running to its south and the Gulf of Mexico crashing at its door. Keeping a place like that dry would be a city planner's nightmare in the best of circumstances. But New Orleans' circumstances have never been ideal; the city was built in the center of one of the most hurricane-prone spots in the world. "New Orleans naturally wants to be a lake," says Timothy Kusky, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences...
...Toronto. She challenged the accepted wisdom on urban renewal--razing areas and erecting isolated, uniform housing projects--arguing instead for restoring old buildings, creating new ones of similar scale and mixing residents and merchants in a happily messy universe of neighborhoods. During a 12-year battle with powerful city planner Robert Moses, whose bid to build a highway through her former neighborhood of lower Manhattan she helped defeat, Jacobs was arrested for storming the podium at a hearing. She said, "We had been ladies and gentlemen and only got pushed around...
...smaller buildings with varied sizes to maintain the atmosphere of the Cambridge campus. In order to begin construction in Allston, the University must file an amendment to its current Institutional Master Plan (IMP), a longterm development blueprint, with the city. Kathy Spiegelman, Harvard’s top Allston planner, said the University will file the amendment on Friday. The University also plans to submit a draft of a new 50-year plan to the city within the next year and a half. Gerald Autler, the project manager for Harvard’s Allston plans at the Boston Redevelopment Authority...