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...film archive. But from the Allston side Harvard can be a forbidding presence. The fields are fenced, the Harvard Business School turns a cold shoulder toward us, and the river houses are locked tight. Back offices and parking lots are Harvard’s face to the Allston neighborhood...
Unfortunately, things haven’t turned out that way. Harvard’s first project proposals were unilaterally conceived and abruptly presented. They violated design principles endorsed by the community in the North Allston Neighborhood Strategic Framework for Planning. The University’s Allston Development Group compounded the problem with its dismissive response to objections posed by the neighborhood’s Harvard-Allston Task Force. Now widespread opposition to the sitting and scale of Harvard’s proposed art building has caused that project to be put on hold—and gives both sides...
...shame of this is not just that bad buildings may get built. The proposed art center, packed into a too-small site, its public purpose largely undefined, is such a building. For all its environmental rectitude, Harvard’s Allston Science Complex is too tall for the neighborhood, and new roadways threaten to make our already congested traffic unbearable. But the greater shame is the lost opportunity to really create what Harvard said it wanted: a new sort of campus community...
...modest ways Allston/Brighton offers quite a lot to such a project—a solid, stable, working people’s neighborhood, home to many groups and cultures, a slice of the world more vibrant and real than much of what’s left in 02138. I like to picture a future Allston with some recherché café, a Pamplona or a Paradiso, right down the street from our neighborhood Dunkin’ Donuts—now that’s true diversity...
...they will live with relatives in Sweden are permitted to stay outside government housing when they arrive; others slowly try to find accommodations once their refugee status is officially approved, usually within a few weeks of arrival. Most end up in Sweden's heavily immigrant ghettos, like the Stockholm neighborhood of Rinkeby. The area's expanse of characterless high-rise apartment buildings dates back to the 1960s, when the Swedish government poured billions into public housing. Driving into the area from Stockholm's gracious old city is like entering another country. In fact, there are few reasons that Swedes would...