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...first thing that must be understood is that there are two separate playing fields, with completely different rules, for street musicians in Harvard Square. First, there is the Harvard-owned plaza adjacent to Au Bon Pain. Performance permits for this spot are given out by Harvard Real Estate, Inc. (HRE) and include permission to use amplification. Second, there is the Cambridge city property along Brattle Street. Performance permits for these spots are given out by the Cambridge Director of Traffic and Parking (DTP) and explicitly forbid the use of amplification. ["A performer may not use electric or electronic amplification...
Last fall, as reported in the Crimson, HRE revoked my permit to perform in the plaza adjacent to Au Bon Pain for "repeatedly playing too loud." Though I have not played there since that time, the revocation, which was initially to last one month, has been extended indefinitely. Furthermore, now that the performance time slots have been allocated for spring term, even if HRE were to have a sudden change of heart, I could not perform there until July...
...faux village finished two years ago in the high Sonoran Desert near Phoenix. It is more determinedly "spiritual," portentous, even sci-fi. "I like haunted, charged spaces," Predock explains. Inside is a polished black granite fountain from which water runs in a narrow, razor-straight canal outdoors, across a plaza and into a circular pool. There is a pavilion for watching sunrises at the east end, another for staring at sunsets in the west. The study is a stepped pyramid of volcanic stone, topped with a skylight. Yet for all the house's risky paradox -- B-movie imagery conceived with...
Last year the nine students converted a garbage dump into a public plaza. The dump site "because it was the only open area, was also used as a playground by children," says Jim Palos, an alumnus of last year's program and its Midwest coordinator. "We also built a drainage system under it so excess water from the daily rain could escape," Palos says...
Construction of the playground next to a Catholic church was very important, Palos says, because of the ambiance it creates together with the church: "[A plaza] is a communal area which is very important to Latin American culture...