Word: treeland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cambridge City Council last night defeated a resolution that would have barred Harvard from building on the Treeland site without the prior agreement of the Riverside Planning Team...
...Treeland, which is next to Peabody Terrace on Memorial Drive, is part of the Riverside community. Riverside is an integrated working class neighborhood whose residents are being forced to move because of increasing rents caused by Harvard's expansion along the river...
...women responded to Cox in a press conference held last night. They stated that they had "set two conditions for leaving this building: that space and money be provided for a women's center and that Harvard University build low-cost housing for the Riverside community on this, the Treeland site...
Although the University has promised to match its plans for graduate student housing with a low-income project on Howard St., there is no reason why Harvard should be allowed to seize and control more of Cambridge's desirable riverfront land than it now has. The Treeland site should be used for more low-income housing because that alone-together with a reduction in the total enrollment of the University-will stop the violent destruction of the community...
...women move to a building in Central Square. But the Women's Center should remain where it is for the moment for two reasons. First, because Harvard's proposed center in Central Square is physically inadequate. Second, because the continued occupation will force, Harvard to negotiate meaningfully over the Treeland Bindery site...