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Article: IT'S TIME WE STARTED TREATING BOSTON CITY HALL WITH PRIDE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 19, 1988
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CopyrightCopyright 1988 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Boston City Hall is in the news.
David Scondras, one of the few city councillors you might
expect better from, suggested to the New York Times that City Hall
ought to be sold because it's overcrowded and ugly. Instead,
suggested Scondras, the city should build an office tower for
itself.
An office tower might be a fitting home for a civic
bureaucracy. A city hall is something different. It's supposed to
be a landmark that symbolizes the city.
In thinking about City Hall and the current reaction to it, I
remembered an article in the Globe a couple of weeks ago that noted
a mind-boggling fact. A third of today's Bostonians have lived here
no more than five years.
Boston City Hall ...