Word: sidewalkers
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...Monday's council meeting, David Eaglesfield, teaching fellow in Social Relations, complained that the temporary fence Harvard put up enclosing most of the Quincy Street sidewalk next to the Gund Hall construction site is forcing pedestrians to walk in the street...
During one five minute period, he said, 33 of 40 pedestrians walked in the traffic lane of Quincy St, because of the fence, which runs down the middle of the sidewalk, leaving only a two-foot walkway a path impaired by several poles...
...buildings are ugly in themselves: it's more that they ignore all but commercial considerations. Both towers are advertisements. The John Hancock Tower will be the taller and louder of the two. Designed by Henry Cobb of I.M. Pei and Partners, it is a sheer glass rhomboid from the sidewalk to the top of its 60th story...
...lunchtime shoppers and employees who will want to live in the inner city. But it should be possible to get all that and good urban design too. For example, the Prudential Center didn't have to cloister itself on its side of Boylston Street. Set far back from the sidewalk, it destroys the street front which is crucial to Back Bay. The escalators which presumably lead into it are no substitute for store fronts and other visual and physical openings. Also, the whole development is on such a huge scale, with those long blocks of straight concrete that it really...
...they had stepped in to prevent the militants from turning the demonstration the Mobe had so carefully organized into a scene of senseless, polarizing violence. A young Mobe marshal moved down the sidewalk pleading with the crowd through his megaphone, "This is not an official Mobe demonstration. Will all those not connected with this demonstration please leave this area...