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What will be the reaction of the members of the Class of 2030 when they find out they got “Allstoned?” If Harvard effectively plans the four undergraduate Houses across the river, being Allstoned won’t have the stigma of being Quadded. For the new Houses—which will replace the Quad—to be a success, Harvard must pay scrupulous attention to creating a unified undergraduate campus and make sure that the Allston Houses are not physically and psychologically separated from the River Houses...
Part one: Bringing Art To Allston Part two: A Community Endeavor Part three: Defining 'Allstoned'The Allston master plan released in January indicates that the four new Houses will either be located across the Larz-Andersen Bridge, where the athletic facilities are now (labeled “Houses” on the map below), or across the Weeks Footbridge near Harvard Business School (labeled “Alternate Site For Houses”). Provided Harvard carries through with its proposals for a student center, comprehensive shuttles, and decking over Soldiers Field road, placing the new Houses where the athletic facilities...
...Allston is to become integrated with the rest of the campus, it needs some draw to lure River House residents over the bridge. The student center would play that role. It should be located immediately over the bridge (see map below) where it could close as possible to the existing River Houses and adjacent to the new Allston ones. Provided that the new center is modern, operational, and sufficiently spacious—which it should be, given the amount of money Harvard is poised to spend in Allston—it will become a hub of student activity...
Tunneling Soldiers Field Road, which runs along the River, is crucial if the Allston Houses are to become more than satellites. The plan as it stands now proposes to “sink” a portion of the road (dashed on the map) and create an aesthetically pleasing park-like public space sloping from campus buildings down to the riverbank. This would make living in Allston more aesthetically pleasant—having a highway out one’s window is rarely appealing—but more importantly it would make the Allston Houses feel physically closer to Cambridge...
Constructive development within this framework, however, can only occur if residents and local politicians stop trying to thwart Harvard and instead decide to work with the University. In the future, we sincerely hope that the paradigm will be a collaborative process whereby Harvard and the Allston community work together within the context of Harvard’s overall vision rather than continue the antagonism that seems to have prevailed of late...