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Now that the House has passed the infrastructure bill, what projects in the Boston metro area could feasibly get funded by it? Transit in the bill is funded at $39 billion, so I'm thinking the Red-Blue Connector design and construction would be a top candidate. Roads and Bridges is at $110...

Problems with the nearly 1,400 foot residential tower at 432 Park Avenue: https://dnyuz.com/2021/02/03/the-down-side-to-life-in-a-supertall-tower-leaks-creaks-breaks/

Pretty cool shot, in a Sim City kinda way:

https://www.wcvb.com/article/gov-baker-pushes-dollar18-billion-transportation-spending-bill/29401273#

I'm sure most of you have seen this one, but The Plan magazine is something I just found at a bookstore, I had never heard of it, and I immediately was blown away by it. Their website is https://www.theplan.it/eng. I purchased the 10/2018 hardcopy edition shown here: . Beautiful!

I’m wondering, how does culture influence architectural trends? I look at the 1980’s and see an ornate post-modern architectural style, and ornateness in clothing of that time as well. I look at today and see a sleek, minimalist, basically modern style reminiscent of the mid-century look. I...

I posted a city design and mapping that I did from scratch on Flickr. It took several years to do, and is a work in progress. I've always been interested in city planning, transit and freeways. All of this map is entirely original by me, no copying from other maps or cities...

Move the Tobin Bridge and NE Expressway to west Chelsea and Sullivan Square. A relocated Rutherford Ave would take traffic from the new Tobin Bridge that is bound for Storrow Drive or the North Station area. The existing Rutherford Ave would be converted into a much narrower landscaped surface...

...and a little bit of Somerville. Here's an extensive collection of streetscape photos taken in the 1950's by some MIT folks. Great stuff. Just type in a key word like "Subway", or "Scollay Square", or "Central Square", or play around with different searches...

This project area could be enlarged a bit by shifting New Sudbury Street toward the Federal Building as shown in this rendering. The purple dashed lines are the existing street, and the solid red is the realigned, narrowed street. Yellow lines represent developable blocks. The proposed...

This is very bad. From the Boston Globe http://www.boston.com/news/traffic/bigdig/articles/2007/07/01/leakage_in_big_dig_tunnel_rises/ ------------------------