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    I could use some help...

    First, a few words on where I've been these last few months. (Nice to know I've been missed.) I'm switching from Northeastern's electrical engineering program to the geography PhD program at Penn State. It's an exciting professional move for me, but it means I'll be moving to rural central...
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    Park in parking

    Silly San Francisco. Seriously though, not a bad idea. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/09/26/DDGKBLB11R1.DTL
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    Berklee Expansion Plans | Back Bay

    From the Sept 23-29 Boston Courant (emphasis mine): If I recall correctly, Berklee is pretty much the only local college that can claim good relations with the surrounding community. Also, partnering with the Red Sox is wise: the Sox are looking for neighbors who are rowdy for the developments...
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    Architecture Humor

    Read the text before looking at the pictures.
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    Energy Consumption- We're #5

    A big reason I follow architecture/urban planning is its connection to energy consumption/climate change, especially in the transportation sector. (We can't get people to stop driving without urban areas that can support it.) So, in that spirit, here's the ranking of US states by per capita...
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    MoS Green Buildings Cell Phone Tour

    http://mos.org/doc/2038
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    To New Horizons: Retro-Futuristic Car Propaganda Video

    A 23 minute 1940 film described as: Download it free (it's public domain) from http://www.archive.org/details/ToNewHor1940 The film's pretty awesome, not for what it proposes but for how well it represents the propaganda that made built America the car-centric "place" it is today. A personal...
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    politics & elections

    So we've got one of those elections things coming up (two counting the primaries). The governor's race in particular is relevant to a lot of the development stuff we're discussing here. I haven't chosen a candidate yet, although I'm leaning towards Deval Patrick. I'm curious to hear your...
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    Attleboro Developments

    Attleboro's one of the few stops on the commuter rail to Providence that seems worth getting off at and exploring. It may be getting even better soon: link
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    Avalon Exeter | 77 Exeter Street | Back Bay

    What is this, Christmas in July? First a tower at Copley Place, now this. From the Boston Courant, which is not online, so I'll just paraphrase: The building's to be on the Exeter Street side of the Prudential Center, near the garage entrance and the Shaw's supermarket. It would be 40 feet...
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    Brownfields

    From the Worcester Telegram & Gazette (link)
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    Bikes On The T

    From the Bikes on the T email list, the contact for which is Joseph Cosgrove <JCosgrove@mbta.com>: The first link is faulty; it should be http://www.mbta.com/insidethet/press_releases_details.asp?ID=1244
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    Urban Ring

    This is the rapid transit project that will form a ring around downtown, connecting the various spokes of our hub-and-spoke system slightly outbound, improving connectivity between the various neighborhoods, opening up new areas for development, and relieving transit congestion downtown...
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    Commuter Rail to TF Green Airport

    I was on the phone with the MBTA yestarday suggesting they add commuter rail service to Providence on weekends. (This baffles me- they go all the way to South Attleboro. Why not continue one more stop to the area's biggest destination? So instead I gotta take a bus tomorrow.) Anyways, the...
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    Regional Rail (RUR) & North-South Rail Link (NSRL)

    Apparently this issue is still on the table. It'll be curious how it plays out as the South Station Tower gets developed. I'm certainly rooting for it. Here's the MBTA's main NSRL page. link Note: Page 25 of this PDF document from the MBTA cites the cost as $8.7B. But even the $5.7B cited...
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    Upcoming Events

    Let this thread be for any upcoming events of interest. ...When I'm not modeling electromagnetics at Northeastern or over-analyzing demographics here, I'm helping organize an ongoing event called Nerd Nite. This is basically a typical night out at the neighborhood bar (Midway Cafe in JP...
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    The Clarendon

    At Clarendon St & Stuart St, Back Bay, a stone's throw from the Hancock & Columbus Center. To be "299 rental and ownership units, a restaurant and a new Back Bay post office" link- BRA Any word on this project? Emporis & the BRA say nothing other than it's approved. ...I will admit that...
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    Roosevelt Island

    The "Little Apple", a skinny little island in the East River between Mahhattan and Queens, accessible by among other things, the tram. I'd love for the area around Parcel 25 in the Mission Hill flats to look like this, except with good integration with the rest of the city instead of the river...
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    Mission Hill Parcel 25 | Tremont St @ Roxbury Crossing

    This site, across Tremont street (in the inbound direction; this is where Tremont street charmingly turns right), is an empty lot being sold by the MBTA to the Mission Hill Neighborhood Housing Services organization, the same people who successfully developed the Brigham Circle space with the...

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