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Re: Construction at Wellington - Station Landing http://www.arborpoint.com/75station/75station.html

Yeah, what is the deal with the fragmentation? Would regular-speed trains keep running across the gaps in the high speed network?

Philly's population is still declining, Chicago grew a little in the 1990s and is now estimated to be stable at best. Atlanta doesn't count, because it's growth is mostly sprawl and it still annexes land.

Wow, Birmingham library looks a lot like Boston City Hall.

One can be a municipal or regional planner in local, county or state government or a consultant in a private firm that is contracted by government. I see some recent grads working in conservation too. At least one I know has become a developer. No one seems to be getting into the field for...

If anyone is interested, I can share my experience inside the new Wishcamper Center. At the very least it is wonderful to have the Muskie School under one roof. Previously, faculty offices were scattered between the Law Building and one of the campus white houses. The majority of classes were...

Thanks, guys.

Where can I find a good written history of Government Center and Scollay Square?

You got it. Corey's pic shows that the back might have more of a face than the front. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AI4BMgyH7ac/SODA7nEdKJI/AAAAAAAAA0Y/wcS02KmGPCc/s1600-h/2895698313_80e56ab2ec_o.jpg

I'm thinking that we should never be very optimistic that Bayside will be pretty. I don't expect anything new in Portland to be as good as the Old Port and Arts District. Bayside, like Capital Center in Providence, can be good for new development and doesn't require demolishing existing...

I like the floor plan but not the outside. The building doesn't seem old enough for a new glass addition to look good like it does on the Umass Amherst Fine Arts Center or the Christian Science Church.

It looks like the "windows" which I complained are in the rendering but missing so far from the actual building might be outside display cases. If so, I'll be relieved to not end up with a blank wall.

These renderings are new to me:

I hate the new "University Commons" less now that I can see the improvements to Bedford Street materializing: a wide tree-lined, brick sidewalk in front of all the new buildings, raised medians at crosswalks and an expanded sidewalk in front of the campus center. I also like the benches and...

A couple books that weren't necessarily assigned, but sucked me in: The Geography of Nowhere, by James Howard Kunstler The Great Good Place, by Ray Oldenburg And my latest obsession: The modernist city: an anthropological critique of Brasilia, by James Holston

Great to see Massachusetts succeeding lately in something other than jock shit.

Virtually windowless cinder block wall. Fewer windows than the rendering.

It's too bad nothing was done to make that garage less of a street life killer. Following other Portland examples, it could have been wrapped in office space or had its first floor dedicated to retail. (I know it has a dry cleaner in it.)

"Atlantic National declined to discuss its plans or a timetable for redevelopment with the newspaper. But a commercial broker working with the company said a likely option is to convert the building into first-class office and retail space." This is a change from the plans for an arts and...