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In 2001, a diverse group of residents and business
owners in the Fort Point Channel area of Boston filed a petition with the Boston Landmarks Commission to make this corner of
Boston into an historic district. Their chief goal in this endeavor was to maintain a sense of "place" in the neighborhood.
These local pioneers, a number of whom are professional artists, hoped that many of the dangers facing this unique
district-in-the-making, from the construction of towering office buildings to the replacement of affordable housing for
families with luxurious condos, could be offset or at least kept in check by establishing strict guidelines for development
and by requiring all construction proposals to be put through a rigorous review process.

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Barry Bluestone, Dean of the School of Social Science,
Urban Affairs and Public Policy and Director of CURP, sees the new School becoming Northeastern’s strongest bridge to the community at large. In
staying true to this mission, he is offering up a free education to anyone who wants it. The 21st Century City: Urban
Opportunities and Challenges in a Global Context, the first class offered solely under the auspices of the new School,
is open to graduate students seeking college credit and any community member who wishes to audit or simply sit in for one
or two seminars that seem particularly interesting to them.
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While New York City's density alone makes it an environmentally-efficient place to live, the city has also
made impressive steps recently towards improving its greenhouse gas emissions, water quality, waste management, and
brownfield rehabilitation. But as the city continues to get bigger and older, it has decided not to allow those achievements
to breed complacency, and in late April 2007 Mayor Bloomberg announced the release of PlaNYC 2030, a bold, sweeping
new agenda for the future of the city's environment, growth, and infrastructure.

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"Regionalism in the 21st Century – Revisiting the Paradigm in New and Refreshing Ways," is a forum on
regionalism, part of the Municipal Leadership Academy. The event is intended to promote thoughtful and detailed discussion
on regional collaboration among municipal jurisdictions, their existing regional partners, and other interested parties, and
will be held on Friday, May 16, 2008 at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. Topics will include the current state of
regionalism in Massachusetts and beyond, the political history of existing regional services, "the new micro-regionalism,"
public/private-sector problem-solving on regional issues, and regional innovations.
The Municipal Leadership Academy is a joint endeavor of the MMA and Northeastern University's School of Social Science,
Urban Affairs, and Public Policy. (CURP is a central part of the School.) The academy's mission is to foster leadership,
scholarship and advanced training and education for local government leaders throughout Massachusetts. For more
information, visit
the MMA website.
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