Harvard Square: a love story
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| Abstract: | "As Catherine Turco found herself stepping to the microphone at a public hearing in a basement to admonish the representative for Equity One, the new owner of a set of commercial buildings on Brattle Street, which planned to evict all of the existing tenants and redevelop the property, she realized she had a problem. Why was an MIT business professor and former investment banker getting emotional about the fate of a bunch of stores she never shops in? Who cares what some bank does with its property? Well, she did, and so did everyone else at the meeting, but why? Written by a longtime denizen of the Square, Harvard Square explains why people become so passionately attached to their local downtown markets and why it always seems like it used to be better before. Delving into the history of Harvard Square, which starts in the 17th century, locals generation after generation bemoan its destruction and loss of character through the influx of soulless chain stores and the greed of careless landlords. The constant of local marketplaces is economic precarity and change. They are frequently under the pressure of rent; their life cycles are often tied to an individual or family. Local business have a way of appearing and disappearing without warning, while at the same time local communities develop emotional attachments to their local business - in some cases real and in others imagined - all completely out of their control yet tied intricately to their sense of personal identity. What is interesting about Harvard Square and similar college communities, is that there is a constant presence of a population of students, alumni, and tourists with a heightened attention to the place as they found it when they first arrived. Just as Longfellow lamented the disappearance of the blacksmith, today's nostalgist misses Tower Records, and neither are ever coming back. Harvard Square: A Love Story is at once a person's attempt to understand her attachment to her local downtown and a universal explanation of why we all feel this way about our own downtowns"-- |
| Physical Description: | 332 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780231209281 |
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| 505 | 8 | |a Author’s Note -- Introduction -- Prologue : Sacred Sundays -- 1. A Love Story Told from the Street Level -- Part 1 : A Lot of the Same, A Lot of Change -- 2. Not What It Used to Be -- 3. The Times They Are (Always) A-Changin’ -- 4. A Tricky Relationship -- Part 2 : Crazy Love -- 5. Crazy Love -- 6. Everybody Get Together -- 7. Forever Young -- 8. Outside Agitators -- 9. Whose Square? The Battle for Control -- 10. Pulling Away -- 11. Different Markets, Different Perspectives -- Conclusion -- 12. Our Markets, Ourselves -- 13. Reclaiming the Street Level: COVID-19 and Beyond -- Acknowledgments | |
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| 520 | 3 | |a Delving into the history of Harvard Square, which starts in the 17th century, locals generation after generation bemoan its destruction and loss of character through the influx of soulless chain stores and the greed of careless landlords. The constant of local marketplaces is economic precarity and change. They are frequently under the pressure of rent; their life cycles are often tied to an individual or family. Local business have a way of appearing and disappearing without warning, while at the same time local communities develop emotional attachments to their local business - in some cases real and in others imagined - all completely out of their control yet tied intricately to their sense of personal identity. What is interesting about Harvard Square and similar college communities, is that there is a constant presence of a population of students, alumni, and tourists with a heightened attention to the place as they found it when they first arrived. | |
| 520 | 3 | |a Just as Longfellow lamented the disappearance of the blacksmith, today's nostalgist misses Tower Records, and neither are ever coming back. Harvard Square: A Love Story is at once a person's attempt to understand her attachment to her local downtown and a universal explanation of why we all feel this way about our own downtowns"-- | |
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| contents | Author’s Note -- Introduction -- Prologue : Sacred Sundays -- 1. A Love Story Told from the Street Level -- Part 1 : A Lot of the Same, A Lot of Change -- 2. Not What It Used to Be -- 3. The Times They Are (Always) A-Changin’ -- 4. A Tricky Relationship -- Part 2 : Crazy Love -- 5. Crazy Love -- 6. Everybody Get Together -- 7. Forever Young -- 8. Outside Agitators -- 9. Whose Square? The Battle for Control -- 10. Pulling Away -- 11. Different Markets, Different Perspectives -- Conclusion -- 12. Our Markets, Ourselves -- 13. Reclaiming the Street Level: COVID-19 and Beyond -- Acknowledgments |
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| spelling | Turco, Catherine J. ca. 20. Jh. Verfasser (DE-588)1137656891 aut Harvard Square a love story Catherine J. Turco New York Columbia University Press [2023] 332 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Author’s Note -- Introduction -- Prologue : Sacred Sundays -- 1. A Love Story Told from the Street Level -- Part 1 : A Lot of the Same, A Lot of Change -- 2. Not What It Used to Be -- 3. The Times They Are (Always) A-Changin’ -- 4. A Tricky Relationship -- Part 2 : Crazy Love -- 5. Crazy Love -- 6. Everybody Get Together -- 7. Forever Young -- 8. Outside Agitators -- 9. Whose Square? The Battle for Control -- 10. Pulling Away -- 11. Different Markets, Different Perspectives -- Conclusion -- 12. Our Markets, Ourselves -- 13. Reclaiming the Street Level: COVID-19 and Beyond -- Acknowledgments "As Catherine Turco found herself stepping to the microphone at a public hearing in a basement to admonish the representative for Equity One, the new owner of a set of commercial buildings on Brattle Street, which planned to evict all of the existing tenants and redevelop the property, she realized she had a problem. Why was an MIT business professor and former investment banker getting emotional about the fate of a bunch of stores she never shops in? Who cares what some bank does with its property? Well, she did, and so did everyone else at the meeting, but why? Written by a longtime denizen of the Square, Harvard Square explains why people become so passionately attached to their local downtown markets and why it always seems like it used to be better before. Delving into the history of Harvard Square, which starts in the 17th century, locals generation after generation bemoan its destruction and loss of character through the influx of soulless chain stores and the greed of careless landlords. The constant of local marketplaces is economic precarity and change. They are frequently under the pressure of rent; their life cycles are often tied to an individual or family. Local business have a way of appearing and disappearing without warning, while at the same time local communities develop emotional attachments to their local business - in some cases real and in others imagined - all completely out of their control yet tied intricately to their sense of personal identity. What is interesting about Harvard Square and similar college communities, is that there is a constant presence of a population of students, alumni, and tourists with a heightened attention to the place as they found it when they first arrived. Just as Longfellow lamented the disappearance of the blacksmith, today's nostalgist misses Tower Records, and neither are ever coming back. Harvard Square: A Love Story is at once a person's attempt to understand her attachment to her local downtown and a universal explanation of why we all feel this way about our own downtowns"-- Harvard Square (Cambridge, Mass.) Central business districts / Massachusetts / Cambridge Central business districts Massachusetts / Cambridge Massachusetts / Cambridge / Harvard Square Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe 978-0-231-55786-3 (DE-604)BV048853723 |
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