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Harvard’s plans in Allston are also inspired by bold thinking by government leaders. The commitment of Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino to the city’s neighborhoods and to greening the city and cutting greenhouses gases have informed Harvard’s master plan as much as his strong support of universities as partners in the economic future of Boston. And Harvard’s first priority in Allston is an interdisciplinary research center that will house the newly formed Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and other cutting-edge research...
...faculty and students from various disciplines together in human-scale buildings with plenty of places to cross paths and learn from each other. The Allston campus will also be permeable, welcoming neighbors into green spaces and connecting residents to its educational and cultural resources. Both Harvard’s master plan and the North Allston Neighborhood Strategic Framework Plan call for blending the University community and Allston residents and visitors, particularly at Barry’s Corner, with a mix of arts and culture, retail, athletics, and inviting open space. Innovative and environmentally sensitive transportation planning will make it easier...
...word I hear most often when discussing Harvard’s master plan for Allston is “opportunity”—the same word every Commencement speaker will use this month about graduates facing the next phase of their young lives. But, unlike the array of opportunities facing our graduates, our goal is better defined as fulfilling a promise, the promise of Harvard’s Allston Initiative, and, in so doing, keeping our promises to Harvard, the neighborhood, the New England region, and the rest of the world...
After more than a decade of consultation, Harvard announced its master plan in January, laying out a strategic framework for 50 years of development in Allston. Since then, our plans have been in the public eye and have benefited from further scrutiny and input of the Harvard community, neighbors, city officials, business leaders, and others. Every day, Harvard planners, engineers, faculty, consultants, neighbors, and city officials dive deep into the details of bringing the master plan to life, with new roads, building designs, construction planning, budgets, and schedules, right down to mapping the route that construction trucks will...
...small group, led by Cabot House master and Jewish studies scholar Jay M. Harris, will be given the trust and the power to move general education from the debating chamber of University Hall into Harvard’s classrooms...