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...square-ft. library will rise three stories, one of which will be semi-subterranean and will help to relieve overcrowded and inadequate shelf and storage conditions in the present library...
...maintaining its enormous debts-and both of these expenditures are the highest per capita in the world. At the same time, the country's overheated economy inflated the cost of living by 13% in 1972 and another 5% so far this year. Slowly but surely, a semi-socialist nation that takes economic equality for granted has developed a small class of discreet, quiet-living millionaires (2,000 at last count). Yet its 1,300,000 Sephardic Jews, who emigrated from North Africa and the Middle East, live in relative hardship compared with the Ashkenazic Jews of European origin...
...City of Cambridge is composed of three main sociological elements: 1. college-age students from non-agricultural or rural backgrounds, 2. average low-income urban Americans and 3. a segment of middle-income semi-aware individuals who are neither interested in manipulation nor able to be fully manipulated. They are relatively neutral...
...absence of such viable goals and/or proposed structures combined with the blatent lack of positiveness within the ideological planning of the revolutionary movement in general leads one to seriously question the spontaneity of such `revolutionary movements' and uprisings. Further substantiating this theory were the semi-active roles played by the Harvard and M.I.T. administrations and the Cambridge political power structure itself. If the `revolutionary actions' had indeed been spontaneous then the reactions of the local power structures would have been to regard this as a serious threat, but their `hohum' `wait-and-see' reactions were far too studied...
...defensive concern for the reception of his theories occasionally prevents Newman from fully pursuing their implications. Paradoxically, many of his proposals are to be found in older buildings, such as row houses, or semi-detached houses. Information on how these areas have fared would have been a useful addition to the book. Defensible Space often corrects the worst in current architecture simply by a return to older designs...