Dorchester Bay City (nee Bayside Expo Ctr.) | Columbia Point

[guitarguynboston]

What does this even mean?

As for uniform heights in Boston, it's hard to avoid examples of uniform height neighborhoods that are great. Back Bay, Beacon Hill, the North End, and the South End all have a clear uniformity in height (and architecture) that makes them some of the most beautiful places in the city.

I'd take a bad crooked teeth smile skyline any day over perfect evenness.

 

[BronsonShore]

What makes Boston area great is the variant heights(minus flat Seaport,) The only thing to improve is smaller lots and every Tall tower must have a shorter building in that same neighborhood and the same every new short height building must be built with a tall building in that neighborhood. I mean the last thing we want here is to turn into NYC where it all looks too gritty except in the middle of the roads when the sun lies up.

There are probably around 756 different things on the list of things that make Boston great before we'd get to "variant heights."

 

[Charlie_mta]

There are probably around 756 different things on the list of things that make Boston great before we'd get to "variant heights."

True, but variable heights on a skyline is usually a good thing, compared to a flat uniform buzzcut.

 

[Blackbird]

True, but variable heights on a skyline is usually a good thing, compared to a flat uniform buzzcut.

“On a skyline” doesn’t really relate to most of the city, though. Much of Manhattan outside midtown and downtown is essentially a flat uniform buzzcut.