Word: smiths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Smith, too, falls back upon the Harvard-MIT Polarity Theory as part of his explanation for the problems facing Central Square. Although Harvard does own some property in the Central Square area, it keeps a low profile. "They turn their back on the Square," Chuck Smith complains of the University...
...proposals which Smith hopes to put before the CSA this year is a plan which would help fund University investigations into the problems confronted by the Square. He says he is encouraged by recent studies, such as one undertaken by a group of GSD students in the Joint City Planning/Urban Design Workshop in June, which made policy proposals for greater pedestrian access to the Square and for more public green spaces; Smith would like to see more...
There are also the restaurants: the sit-down places like Ken's Pub and Hunan ("You just can't find places like that in Harvard Square," says Smith), the quickie places like McDonalds' and the 24-hour Jack in the Box ("We've got our choice of 43 dreck places to eat at down here," says Lane), and the widest assortment of bars and discos, like The Speakeasy, the Cantab, etc., etc., this side of downtown Boston...
...quickie shops, whose advent has been successfully forestalled in Harvard Square--including Dunkin' Donuts, which was denied permission to open a branch in Harvard Square two years ago--flourish in Central Square. By and large, the owners of the more marginal junk-food shops have remained out of Smith's organization. And Lane, whose tenant group is avowedly committed to bringing in still more junk food operations, pleads, "Get us a Jewish bakery, please...
...Smith says appearances aren't everything. "I think Central Square looks more dangerous, maybe because the people are poor; but they're just real people, and mostly, they're nice people...