Word: street
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...economy-it brings tax money. 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...
...Hancock building will be more of the same. It could at least visually acknowledge a street level, and make some concession to the scale of Trinity Church and the Boston Public Library. Instead of being so glaringly glass and steel it might honor the warmly colored texture of Back Bay. Finally, there's no reason for it to be a 60-story monolith-land isn't all that scarce in Boston. Of course, excessive height and strikingly in human scale are an asset to a commercial building. They assert that it is the most important, the biggest and the best...
...problem of building well, to make the city a work of art, involves more than just putting up prettier buildings. New construction along Boylston Street could amount to a glass and steel barricade, while there is a strong need to tie the South End closer to the Back Bay. And besides looking strange and introducing congestion, surrounding Back Bay with high rise buildings or putting a high spine through Boston could even redirect winds and change temperatures in the area. It all seems worth concern, because the city is, after all, the most public and accessible art form...
...threat to Holyoke Center was received at 7:55 a.m., the same time as a call last Wednesday to Cambridge Police saying that a bomb would go off at 10 a.m. that day. A bomb scare occurred later that day at 1737 Cambridge Street, also a Harvard-owned building...