Word: neighborhooding
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Though Allston residents say they have been displeased with the level of communication they are receiving from the University about its intentions to expand into their neighborhood, the revelation that Director of the Institute of Politics Bill Purcell–who announced his resignation this week–will take on a role in the Allston planning process was cause for more frustration among community members...
Mattison added that he took issue with the vagueness with which the University has communicated its vision for Western Ave. and North Harvard St., which he said Allston residents hoped would be a “main street” for the neighborhood...
...easy to forget (or to never have known) that plans for development in Allston once included much more than simply the Science Complex. The University’s master plan comprised an initiative to move the Fogg Museum to Allston and to create a modern art museum in the neighborhood. A location was even selected for the project...
Despite the reality of Harvard’s fiscal situation hindering the progress of plans in Allston, during this past week the potential for expanding the arts in the neighborhood has resurfaced. The Silk Road Project, a nonprofit arts and educational organization created by world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76, announced that it will move its headquarters to a Harvard property in Allston this coming July...
Indeed, what Ma describes as “a lab for interdisciplinary and creative work,” will now find its home in Allston, bringing to the vanguard questions of the place of arts in the neighborhood...