Word: urban
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...president of a tenant’s group that opposed previous Harvard offers, was present at the meeting, according to Ann Silverman, a community development consultant who is advising the tenants on the negotiations. Giovanditto’s group filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in October, charging that the Board was not giving residents the chance to negotiate directly with Harvard. Giovanditto could not be reached for comment last night. But Halbfinger indicated that tenants might accept the deal, although some residents have said they would prefer to move to a Harvard-owned...
...neighborhoods like Treme, a rundown version of Uptown. "New Orleans has many historical neighborhoods with fantastic houses on high ground. We could make it richer architecturally on less land without displacing anybody involuntarily," says Kroloff. Downside? "People in New Orleans may have to trade their ranchburger lifestyle for an urban lifestyle," he says...
...country has never seen a response that failed so bad,” Witt said of the government’s reaction to Hurricane Katrina. “Thirteen hundred people did not have to lose their lives.” Witt also called for carefully orchestrated urban planning in the reconstruction of New Orleans and a commitment to rebuild the wetlands of the Mississippi delta. Approximately fifty people, primarily faculty and graduate students, attended the symposium. Panelist Frederic Schwartz, a New York-based architect and a former visiting design critic at the Graduate School of Design, regretted the lack...
...Year Plan to End Homelessness in Cambridge” last year, said that Cambridge continues to conduct the census because the federal government requires it in order for city agencies to receive over two million dollars in annual funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.Semonoff added that although she would not infer a drop in homelessness from one year’s census data, the appearance of a long-term trend might ultimately be more informative.“We’d need to have a couple years of a trend in a row before making...
...have finally acknowledged the growing influence of India and China as major global economic powers. Both nations, however, are marred by real problems that need solutions. There are tragic undercurrents caused mainly by lack of infrastructure, rampant corruption and the absence of realistic programs to combat poverty in urban and rural areas. Unless these two future superpowers make efforts to bring all social classes under their umbrella of success, we cannot be euphoric over their one-dimensional growth. Arvind K. Pandey Allahabad, India...