Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...measure, which the council passed last week in a slightly different form, came up again this week when Councillor Walter J. Sullivan moved to reopen the discussion. Although the measure's sponsor, Councillor Alice K. Wolf said it was not specifically directed at a particular project, but the zoning change would have halted the new building at the Athenaeum Group's One Kendall Square project...
David Clem, the former city councillor who heads Athenaeum, argued that the move shows bad faith on the part of the city, adding that plans for the project are already underway...
...Neither project has received an official go-ahead, but the Japanese government has set up task forces in several ministries to think about underground cities. Says Nobuhiko Sato, a high-ranking planner at the Construction Ministry: "The time has come to consider urban planning from the vertical viewpoint. Underground development has a great and realistic potential for alleviating congestion...
Even more ambitious is the Urban Geo Grid proposed by Shimizu Corp. It would be an immense network of subterranean atriums connected by tunnels and filled with such facilities as offices, gymnasiums, libraries, exhibition halls and public baths. The project would be built 164 ft. below the ground, sprawl across 485 sq. mi. and accommodate 500,000 people. Not only would temperature and humidity be controlled, say the planners, but real sunlight would be reflected in through vents from the surface. Estimated cost: $80.2 billion...
...slashed cat somebody killed just for fun. Nearby, sullen men eye a fence hawking boom boxes. The Taylor Center is home court for Doss's Upward Bound Academy basketball team. "Not a pastoral setting," says the 6-ft. 6-in. Doss, 40, who grew up in a Bridgeport housing project. "But then, we're not a pastoral academy...