Word: neighborhooding
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University officials presented local residents with an outline of the Harvard Law School (HLS) expansion process and an update on science construction at a meeting of the Agassiz Neighborhood Council last night...
With fewer than 10 neighborhood residents in attendance, Harvard representatives outnumbered community members for much of the meeting...
...study at UCLA, says that we white people self-separate more than anyone else on college campuses. Douglass Massey’s “American Apartheid” cites that one in four whites prefer to live in a neighborhood entirely absent of black people. White people have run miles and miles away from minorities, leaving vast suburban wastelands all over the country, wastelands where everything looks the same and white people do variations of all the same things. It’s left adults rotting on the couch in front of the TV and adolescents with nothing better...
...have the home they really wanted. When Phillip's new employer at the time--United Parcel Service--moved him to Louisville, the couple found a nine-month-old one-story house that had all the features and charm they had ever wanted. It was located in an upscale suburban neighborhood that was the perfect place for them to settle down in and spend their golden years...
...devouring books in the library. One of the first was anthropologist Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture. "In my plays I sort of work as an anthropologist," he says, "finding those parts of culture, habits and whatnot that embody these people." He soaked up the life of his neighborhood, even dropping in on funerals of people he didn't know just to get a sense of the generations that came before--until one day a woman came up and asked, "Did you know my father...