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...This is like being on the Van Halen tour,” he said. “I haven’t been this excited since I played pocket pool and watched Animal Planet this morning...
...Michael Van Valkenburgh says he does not rely on memorials to deal with his grief. But he found solace in choosing the design for the World Trade Center (WTC) memorial. Van Valkenburgh, the Charles Eliot Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), was one of 13 jurors to select the design that will eventually commemorate those who died on Sept...
Once a Cambridge resident, Van Valkenburgh’s home in New York is not far from the former site of the World Trade Center. “The year after 9/11, reading the obituaries of the victims [in The New York Times]…it was a healing sort of memorial experience for me,” says Van Valkenburgh. “So I looked at this as an opportunity to offer me that...
Moran is halfway through his eight-hour shift driving the “door to door van.” While students refer to it as “the shuttle,” it’s not to be confused with that other shuttle—the one that goes to un-exotic places like the Science Center, or, say, Dunster...
Moran is a friendly presence late at night. Though he stands at over six feet tall and weighs close to 300 lbs, he is chatty and always ends a story or statement with a chuckle. As one of the door-to-door van drivers for Harvard’s Transportation Services, Moran makes 50-60 stops a night. He grew up in Cambridge so he knows the streets well—a requisite for a job that involves driving 95 miles a night through city streets. He handles one of the three buses that traverse a sprawling region?...