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The rate of population increase could be gradual or it could be rapid. Just like the percentage of population increase may be low or it may extremely high. For towns and cities that embrace the spirit of the mandate, it will most likely be the latter in both cases. As I've already pointed out...

I'm shocked at how incompetent this revamp actually is. The design approach seems to be to just plop down more inexplicable landscape features and paths in random directions through the square. Raised Grove? WTF is this? But these aspects are merely frustrating. What really bothers me is the...

This seems to be our contemporary take on old commie slab housing, but I think it's even worse. Many of those Corbusian towers in the park at least ostensibly considered the well being of their inhabitants. The idea was that constructing towers would free up the land around them for greenery and...

Of course a substantial increase in population will put an additional strain on a municipality's infrastructure and public systems. It will also have a significant effect on the quality of life in the city or town. Come on now. This is just blatantly obvious.

To most of the affected 177 municipalities, these are not modest zoning changes; they're quite dramatic. The mandated EOHLC guidelines force municipalities to designate a single-use, multi-unit residential district overlay that can accommodate at least the number of units equal to 5% - 25% of...

Your argument has no basis in reality. Both Boston and Cambridge are still below their 1950 population numbers. In the same 75-year period up to today, Boston has lost a net 150,000 people, while the net Massachusetts population has expanded by 2.5 million. During the period when the...

Something that no one seems to be acknowledging is the fact that each of these 177 municipalities already have, and have had, the power to implement this zoning at any time. They can even exceed the mandated 3a requirements if they want. In fact, they can implement any kind of zoning they wish...

Good for Marshfield. This law is awful and the one-size-fits-all urban planning it imposes is equally awful. If we're going to have to have zoning, I'd rather it be kept under local control rather than be dictated by an nonelected state commission, such as the EOHLC.

These giant lumpy boxes that have become so common in the last decade are virtually-interchangeable. They're soulless and unappealing, and their relentless proliferation is making our whole built environment soulless and unappealing. Looking at these buildings, it's as if they're trying to take...

Are we currently living in the Precariously Stacked Boxes Period of architecture?

Super interesting. I really appreciate it, sm89. Thanks. 16 units, 50 bedrooms, 42 baths. Wild.

Fascinating project. I don't think I've ever seen a renovation like this before. Can you point to any more info on this one?

I think it's pretty understandable. Since WWII, architecture in America has become increasingly ugly and bereft of any art or humanity. Likewise for our urban planning. It's only natural that people are now instinctually weary of development, especially large-scale development.

The MBTA Communities Act may be law, but its legality is yet to be tested. Granted I'm just a layman, but the selectiveness of the "MBTA Community" designation, as well as the arbitrariness of the requirement formulation lead me to believe that this statute won't survive a court challenge. This...

Lol. Is there a Godwin's Law for racism? I'm on Milton's side here. A town resisting state-level preemption and wanting to retain local control over the zoning within its boundaries is a perfectly valid and understandable position to hold. The hysterical invective being directed at Milton is...

I disagree. The uniform color only emphasizes this landscraper's landscraperness. I find it totally gross. The former scheme was almost certainly a half-assed riff on Renzo Piano's Central St. Giles in London. I didn't love it, but I thought it was about a thousand times better than this...

These buildings have all the humanity of a electrical box. It's incredible how ugly most hospital architecture has become. It's as if these institutions have made it part of their corporate mission to deface the public realm. I can't decide whether it's incompetence or sabotage.

The new ART building looks like a poultry processing facility. Harvard is clearly unconcerned with providing any kind of positive aesthetic experience to anyone who has to look at this crap on a regular basis.

This building looks like it was designed by Homer Simpson.

This is soul-smothering, office park suburbanism. What a waste.