Word: playground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MORE PROJECT '70 designers worked on one park, playground, or object than on a city-wide plan. But if all their designs are executed, Boston will have youth centers, parks, and playgrounds galore, all full of unique playthings, bright murals, awnings and light shows. And traditional art works like paintings and sculpture swill be done at the giant city-scale to propagate public pleasure-some billboards will even hold cheery graphics instead of motel...
...endless flights of stairs to see paintings, sprayed-water "street sculptures," light shows and dramatic performances that ranged from the inspired to the inane. Above all, they saw evidence of the hard work and ingenuity that have transformed 40 blocks of bleak, empty spaces into home, work space and playground...
BOND: I would disperse public housing around the city so that low-income people would have a chance to live in decent neighborhoods with trees and grass and adequate playground facilities. I would urge the courts to be much more rigid in integrating the public school system. I would disperse black children among all the schools, where white schools are undercrowded and black schools are overcrowded. I would urge the industries around my city to increase the black percentage of workers...
Free University students announced preparations for a community "play-care center" which they plan to open Wednesday at Lawrence Hall. They will construct a playground today on the lawn in front of Lawrence Hall...
...Jewish Bostonians and now little more than a gathering place for old men who sip coffee, Julius Kolodny says bitterly: "Black and white can never mix. They burned my house to the ground, those kids. Then this woman comes and says why don't I make it a playground. I said drop dead I'll make it a playground...