Word: cgis
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...January, Stone announced that the University would go forward with plans to build the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) in Mid-Cambridge, one of FAS’s top priorities—without the tunnel connecting the two buildings, the lone part of the project that required city council approval...
Knowles also enhanced the physical resources of FAS, playing a crucial role in the creation or renovation of many of the Faculty’s landmarks, including the Barker Center, Boylston Hall and the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS). Now in its first stages of construction, CGIS will ultimately unite the government department with many of Harvard’s international and regional studies centers in a single location...
...CGIS tunnel may be dead, but its ghost lives on. Hopefully it will haunt Harvard’s presence in Allston long enough to ensure that the many varied mistakes of the past are not forgotten...
...tunnel was intended to connect the two buildings of the new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS). But because Harvard could not meet the demands of the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association—which included a ten-year moratorium on future building—and because negotiations broke down, no agreement could be reached. Harvard’s decision to scrap the tunnel marked the culmination of six years of rancorous negotiations between the University and the city of Cambridge over the building’s design...
Even if it’s not part of his work for CGIS, Simister says he still wants to make the documentary on his own just...