Word: neighborhooding
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...know that Allston residents will have to endure decades of construction in our densely settled urban neighborhood. We have watched local businesses, useful services, and hundreds of jobs leave our neighborhood and not be replaced because Harvard is purchasing and mothballing dozens of acres of land. We are told that Allston kids are not welcome in the same daycare as Harvard kids and Harvard doesn’t want Allston residents using the same fitness center or mass transit as Harvard people...
...green” building practices, but we don’t see much green in the soot and dust released into the air we breathe during Harvard’s building boom. When Harvard’s construction makes it more difficult to walk or bicycle in our neighborhood and road closures clog our streets, our environment suffers in yet another...
...reform movement is allowing neighborhoods to take matters into their own hands and run their own schools. Broadmoor, where I grew up and my brother still lives, is a mixed neighborhood, racially and economically, right in the heart of New Orleans. It has long had an active biracial improvement association, which the storm kicked up a couple of notches. It formed a partnership with Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, which has sent more than 90 students and faculty to help plan and rebuild, and aid from the philanthropist Walter Shorenstein and Bill Clinton's foundation soon followed. Thus fortified...
...however, Vallas and Pastorek have been working with President Bush's Gulf Coast relief coordinator, Donald Powell, and FEMA to find ways to get schools rebuilt or replaced. When that happens, Cantrell and Roark believe the new school will be an anchor for an education corridor planned in the neighborhood that would include a repaired library and a community learning center funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York...
...former Catholic schoolboy, sees a similarity between rock's golden age during the 1950s and 1960s in America, and the Middle East today - sexually repressed conservative societies dominated by religion and an ideological cold war. Interviewed last week at the band's studio in Gemmayze, a formerly working-class neighborhood of garages and crumbling townhouses that's become ground zero for Beirut's young and restless, Haber places the Beirut rock scene in a wider Mideast cultural context: "At the end of the day, sex, drugs, and rock and roll means freedom...