John F . Collins, the former mayor of Boston, was appointed a visiting professor of Urban Affairs at MIT . The result of the Collins-Forrester collaboration was a book titled " Urban Dynamics ".
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In 1997, the museums and the city produced a festival together celebrating the City of Diversity : shows, music, poetry in support of ideas of difference as essential elements in the city's heritage necessary to its urban dynamic.
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The ambivalent situation of these towns ( in the periphery of the center and in the center of the periphery, in so far as these notions still retain their meaning ) generates a particular, and by definition highly hybrid, socio-cultural urban dynamic which in turn influences the outlook of social, political and economic life in the more visible national metropoles .
