Urban Restoration

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or was it the beginning - of Route 128 was dropped in the midst of our community, leaving deep scars in our landscape and ever since bleeding tourists).</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <U>The second wound was left by Urban Renewal</U></div> <div>  </div> <div> <I>(Hint: </I>Old homes were destroyed, and in their place was left a wide road, Rogers Street, vacant lots, and parking lots.)</div> <bR> <bR> <div> T<U>he third wound was left by the Fisheries Management Program</U></div> <bR> <div> (Hint: Regulations to restrict fishing came late, and they came piecemeal.) </div> <bR> <div> ***</div> <div> The plan contains an integration of the needs of the arts (and the tourists), the needs of commercial interests, and the needs of the fisheries. </div> <div> These needs are held together by possibilities in the field of financing.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>The components of the plan are:</I></div> <bR> <div> - A Tourist Information/Civic Center/Convention Site/Regional Theater on Blackburn Circle</div> <bR> <div> - The building might be three or four stories high, in the form of a sea shell</div> <bR> <div> - On top of the building there might be subtle wireless towers *</div> <bR> <div> - A Parking Lot on Aerial Rights on Route 128 Extension</div> <bR> <div> - A System of Public Transportation for Residents and Tourists alike</div> <bR> <div> - The Transformation of Main Street into The Gloucester Galleria</div> <bR> <div> - The Galleria can be Enclosed through a Buckminster Fuller type of contraption</div> <bR> <div> - Or it Can Remain Open to the Skies</div> <bR> <div> - Or it Can Have Windows that Can be Left Open Most of the Time</div> <bR> <div> - The Creation of Parking all along the Galleria, through </div> <bR> <div> - The Transformation of Rogers Street into an Elevated - or Depressed ** - Road </div> <bR> <div> - Upon talking with John Sparks, the alternative came to mind of enveloping traffic into a tunnel so to form an external ziggurat construction</div> <bR> <div> - The Creation of a Gloucester Promenade all along the Transformed Rogers Street</div> <bR> <div> - The Creation of Parks on Existing Open Lots Between the Promenade and the Water Edge</div> <bR> <div> - Throughout Facilitating the Meeting of Pedestrian Walking and Ships Working</div> <bR> <div> - Thus reconnecting Main Street and the Downtown with the waterfront</div> <bR> <div> - The Continuation of the Promenade Around the Fort Area to Meet the Boulevard ***</div> <bR> <div> - A Possible Spur of the Promenade Under the Water to Create a Natural Aquarium</div> <bR> <div> - A Link of Rogers Street with Blackburn Circle by Means of a Set of Staircases</div> <bR> <div> - Pedestrian Walkways Linking Dogtown Common with Magnolia Woods ****</div> <bR> <div> - The Rejuvenation of the Gloucester Fishing Industry</div> <bR> <div> - The Creation of <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Plan of Financial Interdependence"><U>The Gloucester Interdependence Fund</U></A>.*****</div> <bR> <div> The plan, if and when implemented, will restore Gloucester to its older grandeur. It will transform the City into a Pedestrian Community. </div> <div> It can also implement the proposed functional integration of management and automatically bring into practice two or three key sets of economic rights and responsibilities. </div> <div> Thus it will transform human relationships.</div> <bR> <div> * As suggested by Janis Stelluto</div> <div> ** As suggested by Dr. Damon Cummings</div> <div> *** As suggested by David Porper</div> <div> **** As suggested by Mac Bell</div> <div> ***** Bob Whitmarsh provided the slogan for the Fund: "Put your money where your heart is"</div> <div> A better slogan might be: <B>Do not sell Gloucester. Own it!</B> </div> <bR> <div> These proposals are based on an integrated system of thought called <A HREF="http://relationalism.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://relationalism.net"><U>Relationalism</U></A>, the study of relationships between men and women in the social context. </div> <div> Relationalism encompasses <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Mutual Assurance Fund "><U>Concordian Economics</U></A>. </div> <bR> <div> Tapping, at crucial stages, the assistance of some of the best minds of this century, Dr. <A HREF="http://www.carmine-gorga.us/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.carmine-gorga.us/"><U>Carmine Gorga</U></A> has developed this system of thought over more than thirty years of action and thought.</div> <bR> <div>                                 </div> <div>                                                                                                                                                                                                   <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" > Last modified September 2, 2008</FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id22_cf.htm" TITLE="Urban Restoration"><U><U>Back to Top</U></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="WELCOME TO A CONCORDIAN WORLD"><U><U>HOME</U></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Plan of Financial Interdependence"><U><U>Next Page</U></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </BODY>