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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to convince the University of the hazards of overdevelopment, a group of community activists last week presented Harvard with a series of "design concepts" for the former site of the Gulf Station across from the Harvard Union...
...addition, one drawing depicts how the site would look if Harvard transformed it into a 30,000-square-foot public park. Although University officials expressed skepticism when the notion of a park was proposed, Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association Chair John R. Pitkin said he considered his organization's proposal a viable option for the site...
...like a jewel between snow-covered mountains and deep Pacific Ocean inlets, Vancouver, Canada's third largest city and site of the 1986 world's fair, has inspired great pride among its residents. Unfortunately, intense pride sometimes degenerates into parochialism -- or worse. A city alderman intervened recently to stop local merchants from selling T shirts with the slogan HONGCOUVER, B.C. '89. "When I go out I'm absolutely surrounded by Asiatics," complained longtime Vancouver resident John Smythe at a public hearing on immigration last month. "If the doors are wide open, what's going to happen to the Caucasians...
...year, and a major portion of the foreign investment. Just over 2,000 Hong Kong families brought more than $689 million with them, mostly to Vancouver. Other Hong Kong investors have poured millions into the city, a surge that was dramatized a year ago, when the choice 204-acre site of Expo 86 was sold for $260 million to Li Ka-shing, patriarch of one of Hong Kong's biggest trading families...
Last summer Toyko's Meiji Gakuin University found a solution. For $2.4 million it bought Tennessee Military Institute, a defunct boarding school in / Sweetwater, and spent $2 million restoring the property. The site was no accident: a large number of the 7,696 Japanese-affiliated firms in the U.S. are east of the Mississippi River, and almost 60 are in Tennessee...