Word: urban
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...Urban planner Sam Seidel, a 39-year-old candidate for Cambridge City Council, hopes to unseat an incumbent in next week’s elections—no small order in a city with low political turnover. In entering this race, the progressive Democrat is willing to accept all the help...
...foundations, all but two his own brainchildren, that raise over $190 million per year, employ 1,400 and attract 10,000 volunteers, making his the biggest multipurpose philanthropy in Britain. Charles' goals are not exactly radical, but neither are they blandly inoffensive. He promotes organic farming, alternative medicine and urban planning reforms to make communities more livable. He wants business to be more environmentally and socially conscious. Many of his charities use his stature to bring together people at loggerheads, such as ceos and environmental activists, or take the high and mighty to places like prisons and drug clinics they...
Later, the HarvAid Steppers brought down the house with their energizing sequence of call-and-response stepping. They performed with an invigorating urban energy, wearing white tank tops and Harvard Department of Athletics sweatpants and garnering rapturous applause from the audience...
Jerzy Soltan, an esteemed architect and the Robinson, Jr., professor of architecture and urban design, emeritus, at the Graduate School of Design (GSD), died on Sept. 16 at his Cambridge home. He was 92.Soltan first joined the GSD in 1959, when the dean at the time and another illustrious modernist, Josep Lluís Sert, invited him as a visiting critic. Two years later, he was appointed Professor of Architecture. He remained at the GSD in various guises until his death, educating and inspiring countless students with his Le Corbusier-influenced modernist vision and unique teaching style.Gerald M. McCue, John...
...Road and Western Ave. and an area near the Brighton Mills Shopping Center—Harvard was expected to make another offer in September. But no new offer has been made. Last week, a group of Charlesview residents filed a complaint with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) charging that tenants were not being included in the Board’s negotiations with Harvard. Board Vice Chairman Manning said that this dispute was diverting time from negotiations with Harvard. “We will not continue to battle a small group of residents, and therefore it?...