Word: urban
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...both Allston residents and Harvard in mind and is well placed to make a judgment on this land. Development across the river is vital to the future growth of the University and is currently welcomed by Allston residents who would be thrilled to see their neighborhood thrive. An unpleasant urban wasteland abuts this vital railyard, and Harvard development of the other 44 acres of this 91-acre parcel could clean up the neighborhood while preserving the railyard. Since Barrios also represents a good number of working class voters, he is aware of the hardships another MBTA fare hike would bring...
Putting plants and flowers inside pots has traditionally been the tactic of cooped-up urban dwellers, who have to rely on window boxes to express their inner farmer. But even people with proper backyards are now keeping their gardens contained. So-called container gardening is growing at almost 20% annually, twice the rate of gardening sales overall. Gardening in pots is popular because of its ease: a whole vegetable or flower garden can be designed and planted in an afternoon, and pots require less weeding than conventional flower beds. The pots are also coming in increasingly bold and varied styles...
...that citizens allow the government to exercise for the common good, but with this power comes special responsibility to use discretion in planning and protecting particularly vulnerable communities. Boston’s cheating of its Chinatown residents needs to be remedied, but financial compensation, rather than disruption of the urban planning process, is the more equitable solution...
...founder and president of the Network for Equity in Student Achievement, a national organization that aids urban school districts in closing achievement gaps...
...with the flamboyant iconoclasm that has long made him a lightning rod in French public life. His new book, Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, released in France to great fanfare at the end of last month, is his report on a year of remarkable research that took him from the urban wastelands of Karachi to Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, from London to Dubai and Bosnia, and from fact to a kind of fiction. In retracing Pearl's last steps - the story that got him killed - Lévy concludes that the reporter's kidnapping, decapitation and dismemberment was essentially...