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This summer, Alicia G. Harley ’08 investigated the possible environmental, economic, and social effects of different proposals to alleviate sprawl around Cairo, an ancient city facing the paradoxes of modern urban development...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Ancient City’s Sprawl | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

According to Harley, complex zoning laws have in part caused middle and lower-class Egyptians to construct many “illegal” residences squeezed next to each other on arable land. The problems associated with sprawl affect all Cairenes, since these “suburbs” occupy land that could be used to feed Egypt’s swelling population. Cairo is Africa’s largest city...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Ancient City’s Sprawl | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

After interviewing politicians and the urban poor, Harley, an environmental science and public policy concentrator who conducted the research for her senior thesis, said she believes that the city’s growth is “inevitable...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Ancient City’s Sprawl | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

...recent decades, the Egyptian government has made efforts to build and populate towns in the desert, which would free up valuable agricultural land in the Nile delta. It is one of four urban development plans that Harley evaluated based on the criteria of long-term environmental, economic, and social sustainability...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Ancient City’s Sprawl | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

...retirement of its longtime building manager, the masters presented Coveney with a gift to commemorate his presence. The gift from House Masters Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin was a black leather motorcycle jacket embroidered with the Lowell insignia. Coveney, an avid motorcyclist, donned the jacket over a Harley-Davidson shirt as the party came to a close. The present was emblematic of the personal flair noted by Coveney’s colleagues. “He brought a certain style to the House,” Eck said. She added that Coveney’s retirement...

Author: By Lindsay P. Tanne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lowell Celebrates Building Manager | 12/3/2007 | See Source »

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