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"Taxachusetts" has always been a misnomer that follows from very misleading measures of tax burden that include the graduated federal income tax. Because higher incomes are taxed federally at higher rates, high income states have a higher total tax burden. When federal income tax is excluded...

1. Remove the walls around the ground floor windows of the Boston Public Library extension. Next?

I hope you don't get discouraged by the negative reactions to your posts. If it means anything to you, the poll results look like a middle finger at the time of this post. Also, I can't find the "Is BostonBoy a twink" thread.

Unfortunately the program isn't accredited.

I'd go to grad school in Portland if it had an accredited urban planning masters program. And I'd probably consider moving there for a job too.

A promotional video for the new Westin tower in Providence added some fake skyscrapers. It is a strange thing.

This is hard to find but definitely available at the Umass Boston library. Author Jellicoe, Geoffrey Alan, 1900- Title Motopia : a study in the evolution of urban landscape / G. A. Jellicoe. Publisher London : Studio Books, c1961.

Any idea when Chipotle is coming? And why don't Poor Little Rich Girl and Mr. Crepe have signs?

If postmodern architecture draws from past styles, why not draw also from art deco, one of the most interesting styles?

This is very useful. I've been able to map out some important parts of an upcoming trip.

I think so.

This reaction to the city is quite different from one I remember from you a while back. Also, I think Providence's street life occurs mostly, if not only, on a particular stretch of Thayer Street on the east side in the Brown University area away from downtown.

The MEEI is in the background of the 4th image.

Patrick, you will get a good sense of it with a local.live.com search.

It could even be configured in a way that creates parcels that could be sold to fund the changes. If the new parcels were developed in a way similar to station landing, then you'd have something still far from ideal, but much closer to a real neighborhood.

I paid a visit to Station Landing a couple weeks ago and was disappointed. As a transit oriented development it has shortcomings. The new enclosed pedestrian walkway to Wellington was still incomplete, so you have to wait for a few minutes for a shuttle that takes a very roundabout route to...

The 4th picture from the top shows an above ground highway ramp. Was that built and then covered with Copley Place? It appears so in Google Maps, but I don't know if the map is accurate.

With Waterside Place and the two buildings on the other side of WTC Ave., you'll have something like Summer St. where the road is raised but you don't know it.

What will happen to the existing South Station concourse during construction?

I couldn't find anything but plastic except for the small chip in the corner. What I'm seeing as the chip must include a little antenna.