Word: chard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James R. Chard, a third-year student in City Planning, and Robert M. Hollister, a Ph.D. candidate in city planning at M.I.T. and a former GSD student, have suggested a regional fair with exhibitions in eight cities, including Boston, currently in competition for the site of Expo...
...each of the cities would be determined by the long-range needs of the city: a new theater in one, better parks in another. "Boston's exhibit, for example, might include the needed stadium, which would attract fair-goers and serve the community after the end of the fair," Chard said...
...Polis '76 would encourage permanent improvements in the city," Chard said yesterday, "instead of being just a set of isolated exhibits." He said that he hoped the attraction of the fair would be "an inducement to the Federal government to build the inter-city transportation...
...Chard criticized the usual one-city format. "Traditional fairs are becoming too large and expensive for one city to handle," he said. The multiple-site plan would also hold "to an absolute minimum the displacement of residences and businesses...
...Chard and Hollister have sent their plan to the President's American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, which