Word: neighborhooding
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Josephine knew that Harvard was beginning to actively engage with the Allston neighborhood and the City of Boston in a community planning process that centered around the University’s long-term aspirations for growth. Given the obvious intersection of interests and timelines, Josephine explained, it seemed worthwhile for Charlesview and Harvard to begin to consider their shared future in Allston...
...Corner”—the intersection of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue just beyond the edge of the Harvard Business School campus—to become a vibrant crossroads for a growing campus was clear. It could become a new hub of the long-established Allston neighborhood with amenities for the entire community. Within the broader context of the North Allston neighborhood planning process, the possibility was raised for the current Charlesview site to be transformed to a new cultural gateway that would welcome Allston to the Harvard campus. The residents of Charlesview, along with their neighbors...
...comprehensive study or hard data) that the easiest road to the “promised land” (a.k.a. a property without the need for capital improvement that the Board had allowed to mount) was to seize on Harvard’s interest in annexing our once-thriving residential neighborhood for its campus...
They will see Harvard’s expansion into their neighborhood as an invasion. And if we continue to act this way, they may have a point. If Harvard does not respect the surrounding community, we cannot expect them to respect us. If Harvard creates insecurity for our neighbors, we should not expect security for our own community...
Instead, Harvard’s expansion proposal, as it currently stands, will scatter the Charlesview families and disrupt the lives and livelihoods of the tenants by forcibly relocating them to areas farther away from jobs, neighborhood life, and public transportation. Harvard has the money and power, and so it feels entitled to the homes of poor Charlesview residents. But these residents don’t have the money or power to stand up alone to a multi-billion dollar corporation eyeing their little plot of concrete and community. That is why they have asked for student support...