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The race itself is on a dedicated track on an island in the St. Lawrence,

Harry, I do have a few minor quibbles with the reasons you enumerated, but my comment was prompted by the attitude from the opening sentence, which attitude I paraphrased. It exhudes an aversion to constructive compromise which strikes me as typical of NIMBYism. The fact that it's an a priori...

Mustn't let the good be the enemy of the perfect... (The actual enumerated reasons are better, but I wonder if this intro doesn't reveal something about the NIMBY unconscious) justin

With a dedicated unicorn lane.

Right: they are still single-family homes whose servants quarters, coal cellars, gas and wood ranges and stables are still there serving their original functions. As you say, function can be tweaked; these building should be preserved for their divine form. Before they become a destination...

Re: Russia Wharf ^"Free CD with the purchase of a condo!"

Re: 1531 Columbus Ave Yeah, just like all those Renaissance architects all insisted on porticos and pediments and Corinthian capitals and cupolas and compulsive symmetry. A more benign view might be that it's just a style. A style you may or may not like, but why blame it merely for being...

Lurking somewhere on this forum...

Re: Shreve, Crump & Low bldng may be replaced w/ new develop ^Itchy, have you considered contacting the minister at the Arlington Church? I don't know anything about them, except that they're right accross the street, they have a pulpit and an upscale congregation which might be moved to...

A few comments: - What's the benefit of building the Urban Ring as an extension of the Green Line, as opposed to a free-standing line? The longer and more convoluted your routings are, the more likely is the disruption at one end of the system likely to ripple through the rest of it...

^Diller & Scoffidio?

Re: Assembly Square Redevelopment The latest presentation has plans for the area near the T stop. In particular, there will be an actual square in Assembly Sq. How this will sit next to IKEA's big box remains to be seen. justin

A bus tunnel needs to be wider than a rail one since it needs the clearance for the less controlled turns. So the tunnel as built just needs some rails plopped down, but embedded in pavement so that it can be shared by buses to Logan. The buses could turn around at the existing SS loop, and...

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Re: Suffolk Dorms / Modern Theatre ^ I feel Hurley is the most beautiful building in Boston as it is.

Given the scarcity of land and the red tape, could it be that gold-plated development simply offers best ROI?

And to think that 90% of what you see in #2 was built since 1950's...

Re: Filene's ^The demos are usually more interesting than the finished product, so keep'em coming.

^It clashes with Hotel Comonwealth. It needs to be torn down and replaced by sometihing more like the dominant style of Kenmore Sq,

Re: Alexandra Hotel Why don't they just merge with the outfit up the street into 'Christian Scientology'? It'll be less confusing for a lot of people, and the Alexandra may be put to a livelier use.