Word: town-gown
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Lloyd says that having someone with decision-making power at the bargaining table allows for easier compromise and better long-term town-gown relationships...
...reason for optimism when he assured a crowd of local officials that he would improve Harvard’s transparency, long a major roadblock to earning the community’s trust. January brought more potential for progress, with newly-elected Mayor Michael A. Sullivan vowing to make town-gown relations a major priority of his term. The city council’s creation of the Committee on University Relations that same month represented fruitful effort toward improving communication and making long-term planning and development cooperative rather than confrontational...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers’ silence on town-gown issues during his October installation speech foreshadowed just how little would change. Just one month after Stone’s promise of more transparency, the University announced the secret purchase of a 120-unit housing development in Cambridgeport, even though local activists said they had been struggling with developers to secure the plot for city residents. And in the adjacent neighborhood of Riverside, the University persists in its stubborn refusal to negotiate directly with city residents over plans to build an art museum on Memorial Drive. Although the University...
Harvard currently provides housing to 97 percent of its 6,650 undergraduates. Only 200 Harvard undergraduates live off campus in non-affiliated housing, according to the 2001 Cambridge town-gown report...
...second reason the Allston purchase will not be a cure-all for town-gown tensions is that it actually worsens a more serious problem that has nothing to do with construction. It further erodes the bonds of community association between the University and its neighbors in Cambridge...