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    This may very well help you dirty hippies survive the eventual zombie and or economic apocalypse. NSFW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKTutSMZ4FU&feature=player_embedded
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    Crumblin' Shithole

    If MIT and others hadn't been granted air rights which were developed in the last 10 years this line could have been elevated to avoid the grade crossing issues. The at grade route could have been converted into a bus, light rail, or MUP route underneath the elevated railway. If MIT and the...
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    Mass Mental Health Center Redevelopment + Brigham & Women's Mixed Use Complex | MH

    Re: Mass Mental Health Center Redevelopment/ Brigham & Women's Mixed Use Complex Keep in mind that it will take several years for the plantings to mature to a point where the landscape looks anything like the rendering.
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    The Apartments at 525 Huntington Ave @ Wentworth | 525 Huntington Ave | Fenway

    Re: The Apartments at 525 Huntington Ave (Wentworth) No they aren't, Wentworth owns most of them along with a fraternal organization. Hence the giant Wenthworth signs in each transom.
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    Any information about the architecture or history?... of 352 Mass Ave at St. Botolph.

    View of the site prior to urban renewal, arson, and the current developments.
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    It is akin to dieting by switching from solid chocolate bars to chocolate bars with nuts.
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    I'd rather limit the dispensaries to major medical centers. Reason being that California allowed dispensaries everywhere and it lead to heavy abuse of the system.
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    Why Boston became a backwater The Curley Effect: The Economics of Shaping the Electorate http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/shleifer/files/curley_effect.pdf Edward L. Glaeser Harvard University and NBER Andrei Shleifer Harvard University and NBER "James Michael Curley, a four-time...
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    The Kensington | 665 Washington Street | Downtown

    Re: Residences at Kensington I imagine the promised exhibit space for the theater's salvaged elements will be conveniently left out of the finished product.
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    archBoston Presidential Poll 2012

    HK has a unique tax system which encourages smart land use too.
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    Millennium (Hayward) Place | 580 Washington Street | Downtown

    Re: Millennium Place III | Hayward Place "On the other hand, does anyone know the logistics of why they went with concrete instead of steel?" In luxury housing construction acoustic separation is a big selling point. Not hearing the neighbors, mechanical equipment, fluid in pipes, air...
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    archBoston Presidential Poll 2012

    Cute little Baltic countries that Putin would love to devour like a wolf if given the opportunity to do so. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-19/krugmenistan-vs-dot-estonia http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-06-01/estonia-s-rating-affirmed-by-fitch-amid-economic-recovery...
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    Boston Common Overhaul

    http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/11/12/sandwich-shop-opens-in-old-boston-common-bathroom/
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    Downtown Crossing/Financial District | Discussion

    http://www.amazon.com/City-Signs-Lights-Stephen-Carr/dp/0262020874
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    archBoston Presidential Poll 2012

    Blurb: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx?RelNum=5409 Full paper: http://hlcole.bol.ucla.edu/NewDealucla.pdf Longer in-depth analysis in delightfully depressing books: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060936428...
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    General MBTA Topics (Multi Modal, Budget, MassDOT)

    Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Can we nickname her the 3rd rail?
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    Downtown Crossing/Financial District | Discussion

    "The money dried up as the Vietnam was drained more and more money." Nope, LBJ was perfectly fine with guns & butter as was Nixon. Remember that the 1970s is when energy prices started to become an issue and global competition in manufacturing from all the countries bombed to the ground in...
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    archBoston Presidential Poll 2012

    http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/12/japan-and-the-limits-of-keynesianism/68619/
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    Berklee Expansion Plans | Back Bay

    It was the Back Bay headquarters of the State Street Syndicate.
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    archBoston Presidential Poll 2012

    Crazy old man 'that knows nothing economics', but somehow is a self made millionaire The vote in the senate was 0-99 on President Barack Obama’s budget blueprint. Put the Kool-Aid down. Keynes is up there with Marx when it comes bad ideas which have demonstrably failed repeatedly yet still...

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