Word: neighborhooding
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...Following the controversial land purchases in Allston, revealed in 1997, Boston’s Mayor Thomas M. Menino asked Harvard to fund a neighborhood planning process that would coordinate the University’s plans for the approximately 100 acres then in their possession with community needs...
...Despite the obstacles, University planners said they have faith in their project and its ability to overcome community skepticism. Both Boston and Harvard officials have said that the earlier process was never meant to be binding and have maintained that the uniquely evolving needs of an institution require the neighborhood to be flexible in its interpretation of the guidelines born of the earlier meetings...
...Over the course of several years, University planners met on a monthly basis with a mayor-appointed task force of residents. In the summer of 2004, these meetings resulted in the North Allston Neighborhood Strategic Plan, which focused on maintaining housing affordability, creating open space, and breathing new life into the obsolete, industrial parts of the neighborhood. The plan was well received by both the government and its citizens...
...Since presenting a draft of the plan to the committee in January, Harvard has encountered resistance from a neighborhood surprised by discrepancies between the earlier guidelines and current projects...
...Gehrig’s has focused primarily on neurons as a source of disease, but the researchers cite their results as proof that non-neuron cells merit serious investigation. “Can you imagine what would be the fate of an individual that grew up in a bad neighborhood?” said Columbia researcher Serge Przedborski, drawing a parallel between crime-ridden areas and cellular environments. “What we found was that in fact, those normal motor neurons were dying due to the aspect of being surrounded by these mutant [support cells].” Though...