Word: urbanism
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...Graduate School of Design is presenting a new exhibition entitled “Inhabiting Infrastructure,” which looks at build landscape and urban design throughout the world. The exhibition promises to investigate these themes through a host of diverse examples that will illuminate various aspects of the notion of urban landscape. The exhibition is located at Gund Hall Gallery at the GSD, through March 21. Monday through Thursday at 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday from...
...longtime bullet-train commuters clamber drearily onto the unreliable T, while quaint Europeans enthused of the unicycle are frowned at by our city’s hard-headed pedestrians. And then there are those from even more exotic climes like that of, well, the rest of the urban United States, who discover that on the tortured “grid” of metropolitan Boston, taxicab rides are ever-unfolding, decidedly meta Borgesian enigmas. Cambridge is simply not the place for those who demand speedy or imaginative journeys...
...been reading the section faithfully since age nine, but it was only recently that my Wedding Mockery became a blood sport. Perhaps some background is necessary here. I’m from Yonkers, New York, which one eloquent Urban Dictionary contributor correctly defined as a “shithole north of NYC.” Sometimes referred to as the “sixth borough” or the “backyard of the Bronx,” the city suffers from a severe inferiority complex. I think where I live is pretty nice, but I realize the place...
...stabbing as a class conflict. “Almost every article and news story, then, has emphasized/sensationalized the socioeconomic, class, racial and ethnic divisions which define this case—the wealthy, seemingly-entitled, privileged, white, Harvard-educated, armed, intoxicated graduate student juxtaposed with the unarmed, blue collar, urban dwelling, uneducated Hispanic young Cambridge father,” the motion said...
...Square is certainly full of fun and games, but at first glance, it seems that the only jungle in Harvard’s reach is that of the urban variety. But Rob Gogan, Recycling and Waste Manager for Facilities Maintenance Operations (FMO), seeks to prove skeptics wrong. Since including a sighting of a red-tailed hawk as a postscript to one of his monthly e-mail recycling updates, Gogan, who offers nature walks by appointment, has been flooded with e-mails boasting of wildlife sightings around campus. The following is but a smattering of the places in which one might...