.markzbarabak visited Cambridge, MA as part of our Hometown series, capturing the U.S. as seen from the front doors of its presidential hopefuls. It's a look at how each city has influenced the campaign of its candidate, from those who know them best.
Burlington shaped Sanders as Sanders shaped Burlington, so much so that it’s hard to consider one without the other.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, her husband, Bruce Mann, and their dog, Bailey, walk home after Warren announced the exploratory committee for her presidential run in Cambridge in 2018. New buildings rise even as East Cambridge competes with Midtown Manhattan and Palo Alto as the priciest commercial real estate market in America.
“The Cambridge you see on postcards is one story. It’s a very important story,” said Marc McGovern, a former social worker serving his fourth term on the City Council. “But Harvard and MIT are only one story.”Marc McGovern, a former social worker serving his fourth term on the City CouncilHe remembers the schools being so strapped when he attended that he wore a coat to stay warm inside his wind-swept classrooms.
Kendall Square, by contrast, is broad avenues and airy spaces, angular high-rises and glassy cubes; the sensation is an office park transported lock, stock and corporate logo from Silicon Valley, then grafted like an appendage onto the rest of the city. Kids lived in the same neighborhood regardless of whether a parent was a rocket scientist or auto mechanic, attended the same public schools and faced the future with the same glow of optimism. Today, Kuelzer said, “you can walk down the same street and be on two different paths.”
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