Recent content by coleslaw

Re: Site in Hub top choice for a soccer stadium I compared sites around boston with the size of portland's relatively small but upwardly expandable SSS. It would fit in the pic above, it would fit next to the garden, it could fit next to assembly sq, it would fit in readville with some changes...

It is a storage facility. The green buildings with the harvest were built a few years ago now.

Re: The Huntington | 252, 258, and 264 Huntington Avenue Telling poor people to vote for rich people who could give a shit about them is actually a pretty good way to alienate people.

Re: The Huntington | 252, 258, and 264 Huntington Avenue What are my prescriptions exactly?

Re: The Huntington | 252, 258, and 264 Huntington Avenue Not. But I do think it would be reasonable to be angry about exploitation.

Re: The Huntington | 252, 258, and 264 Huntington Avenue There are much more important ways to involve yourself in your community and politically than voting. Especially for president, where in MA it literally means nothing.

Re: The Huntington | 252, 258, and 264 Huntington Avenue 1) We vastly overestimate class mobility in the US and we have one of the lowest in the developed world. For the vast majority of people if you are born with money you still have money if you were born without money you are still broke...

Re: The Huntington | 252, 258, and 264 Huntington Avenue Nothing I said had any relation to that but smears without actually arguing any point is real easy for you huh? No you don't. You don't because landlords don't (for example most evictions are done without actually having the legal right...

Re: The Huntington | 252, 258, and 264 Huntington Avenue Well first, recessions are an intrinsic part of capitalism and absolutely coming in a bubble like this so if anyone is rooting for a recession it is you not me. Secondly who gives a fuck if it is "illegal" to fight back against your...

Well first no one calls themselves a neo-collectivist, no one for that matter calls themselves a collectivist or has for about a century. That term is an effort to collapse differing and often conflicting tendencies under a single and often tonally sneering label. Harvey is probably my...

Re: The Huntington | 252, 258, and 264 Huntington Avenue You are a straight fool if you actually think that a basic (and propagandistic) supply and demand arguments apply to fixed but speculative goods like housing. This is where capitalist economics become more of a mythological practice then...

That vision was fuck poor people lets get rid of their neighborhoods and build highways and barren concrete plazas everywhere. Bold visions aren't necessarily good ones.

I disagree with you on most things but at least you recognize development as political those of you who don't are genuinely frightening. Especially the idea that what is is what must be, or that this is just "reality" and cannot be questioned.

lmao as if "idea factories" aren't just capitalist propaganda mills.

Because if you are displaced what the building that does it looks like doesnt really matter. Design really should be secondary to those concerns.