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Uncertainties abounded and voices were raised as residents grilled city and Harvard planners about the specifics of the University’s plans for development at a tense meeting of the Harvard Allston Task Force last night. Residents questioned everything from the merits of adding density to the neighborhood, to effectiveness of the discussion and feedback process itself. “We’ve lived through these last eight years and looked at these master plans changing like a motion picture,” said Allston resident Tom Lally. “But when I have objections, I don?...
...works with a group called the Boston Workers’ Association, described his organization’s efforts to give unemployed workers training in “green” jobs, such as weatherizing houses and installing solar panels. Tanaka and John Bolduc, an environmental planner for the city, outlined projects like the Cambridge Energy Alliance, which gives loans to low-income homeowners to help them make their houses more energy efficient, as well as “green leases,” which provide incentives for landlords who would otherwise pass on higher energy costs to their tenants...
Harvard’s chief planner for Allston, Kathy A. Spiegelman, said that the design of the commons would allow not just for collaboration across subjects but also for interaction between the campus and the community...
...what a local resident affectionately dubbed “the emerald earring.”Though Harvard officials note say that the context of the Riverside and Agassiz expansions were different, the difference in the relations with the neighborhoods demonstrates the power that residents can have in frustrating University planners. While Riverside suffered delays, the Agassiz plan moved forward more quickly.In Lesley’s case, intense neighborhood engagement not only eliminated opposition to the project, but allowed the university to actually do more than it had originally thought it could.Originally, zoning laws did not permit construction of a second...
Danish urban planner Bent Flyvbjerg has a love-hate relationship with the Sydney Opera House. “It’s my favorite building,” he said. “But at the same time, I hate the project. The Sydney Opera House is a megaproject disaster.” Flyvbjerg, a professor at Aalborg University, discussed the budget overruns that are common to large infrastructure projects, or megaprojects, at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design last night. According to Flyvbjerg, nine out of every 10 infrastructure projects have these fiscal problems...