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Brasher provided the Board with a list of cities in Massachusetts, such as Belmont and Boston, that allowed chickens on residential lots—even if some required a permit. He also argued that “hen-keeping has a long history in urban settings,” citing that people all over the world have been keeping domestic ducks and chickens in urban areas for thousands of years...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chicken and Duck Owners in Cambridge Lose Appeal | 2/12/2010 | See Source »

...country where collectivism is expected and mostly accepted. Get out of Cambridge where 85 percent still voted for Martha Coakley. I hate to perpetuate the Massachusetts-as-foil-for-Texas stereotype, but I’ll take the risk. So drive down through the winding roads of non-urban Texas, where people of modest means have yards the size of parks, where you’ll break a sweat walking to the next door neighbor’s, and where stray cattle wander through neighborhoods...

Author: By Mark A. Isaacson | Title: My Country ’Tis of Tea | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

Khazei, who founded the urban public service program City Year, said that he expects similar programs to emerge across the country, as other institutions build on Harvard’s model...

Author: By Elias J. Groll and Zoe A.Y. Weinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Harvard Law School Replaces Suspended Public Service Initiative | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

...Paid for, thank you very much, by the taxpayers of Vancouver. More than any other project in recent Olympic history, the $1 billion residential complex represents the risks that urban governments face when trying to host one of the world's biggest parties. The city planned to invest about $47 million in the project back in 2006. However, cost overruns and the recession forced Vancouver to step in and bail out the private developers who were charged with financing the project. The city avoided the humiliation of welcoming the world with a half-built Olympic Village, but at a great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vancouver's Olympic Village: Let the Bailout Games Begin | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

Professors from across Harvard’s graduate schools and members of the private sector gathered at the Harvard University Center for the Environment last Friday to discuss issues surrounding water access and subsequent challenges for sustainable urban development...

Author: By Amira Abulafi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Working Group Discusses Climate Change, Water, and Sustainable Development | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

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