Word: urban
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Consultants from the Cecil Group, an urban planning firm that is advising the Boston Redevelopment Authority, unveiled several versions of a plan to turn Barry’s Corner—a large intersection at North Harvard St. and Western Ave. that currently contains only a gas station—into a community hub that contains restaurants, cafes and a park. To illustrate their particular vision, the presenters made comparisons to other lively urban centers that are bordered by institutions, such as Harvard Square and University Park near...
...discussion on urban planning will continue next Tuesday at the Community-Wide Plan meeting that will focus on options for housing and retail in Allston...
...improvement and places that need more work. The aggregate scores showed that in many tests, public schools in Cambridge do not do as well as those in the state as a whole. Fowler-Finn, however, told the committee that he believes the way results are calculated is biased against urban schools. MacDonald said that aggregate scores include the scores of typically under-performing subgroups, including minorities, as well as students who are from low-income families or who do not speak English well. MacDonald added that when the results are broken down by subgroup, 72 percent of the subgroups...
...plight of the poor is forgotten” in the history of the ’60s and in important modern policy decisions. A panel of current organizers in Harvard’s black community and in Newark discussed these issues after the film. The organized urban violence of the 1960s was most often a response to both civil discrimination and poverty in the black community, the panelists said. According to Walter C. Carrington ’52, the first student member on the board of directors of the NAACP and a former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria...
Economics professor Edward Glaeser, an expert in urban economics, found a potential bright spot in the current crisis. He suggested that the decline in housing prices—a market in which he does not “think we’re close to the bottom”—has made home ownership more affordable...