Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planning and construction of the Mt. Auburn site are to be done in consultation with the Housing Subcommittee of the Riverside Neighborhood Association, which represents residents of the neighborhood in which the site is located...
...formal neighborhood organizations exist around the West Cambridge site, which is located in a mixed residential industrial area. so local residents will probably be involved on an ad hoc basis...
...Then at dusk, a remarkable thing happened. The Royal Ulster Constabulary charged the Bogside. They actually invaded the neighborhood, followed by a small number of Orange marchers who continued throwing the stones. This remarkable event fused the entire neighborhood. In an era of hopeful, if not actually good, faith, this was quite a shock. Barricades went up and the police were repulsed...
...police followed this up a few hours later by dousing the neighborhood with tear gas. Three hundred years of prejudice, ignited by a year of tense feeling, put large parts of Ulster's cities at war with the province's police department...
Though the neighborhood is undistinguished, it has the attraction of being close to the center of town. A number of prospective tenants have already sent in cash deposits for apartments. Inevitably, the local newspaper has produced a name for the singles who will move into the silos: "flour children...