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Not sure why you think that somehow disproves my point. Capital in its transience leaves areas to rot as it centers itself in new places, or old places again. Leaving booms and busts embedded into our society and the landscape. Flint is the flipside of Boston. I am not a luddite, and a luddite...

The problem is my problem is not with this one building it is with the contemporary mode of development of the city. It goes deeper than this one building although this is indicative of it. I find that people here don't actually want to limit discussion to just the architecture, thinking the...

Many people here out of a completely nonsensical conception of supply and demand often suggest that building tall buildings full of luxury condos will somehow bring down rents or make housing more accessible in general. This mirrors trickle down economics in the geography where the rich and...

Who is selling the land though? I agree that neoliberal globalization has massive destabilizing effects and one aspect of it, gentrification, displaces whole communities. But you only seem to want to blame those buying it, which still in vast majority is rich suburbanites btw, and their moving...

With how much of the discourse here is repetitions of the same completely uncritical pro-market solutions, pro-developer geographic trickle-down drivel accusing me of all people here of being a total follower is laughable.

blaming specifically international capitalists rather than the class system as a whole is such a mistake.

I don't ride it as much as I used to but it can be really packed sometimes. If parts of the rute were 15+ min walk from the orange line rather than 7-10 (like the area from hyde sq past the curley would be if you moved the orange back to washington) I would bet it would be more often. Could...

This is probably true. It also is just hideous. looks like a potemkin village.

I would support it. I think this would benefit from extending the E to forest hills/arborway again. It would better serve both the washington st and centre street corridors. Otherwise it would put all of centre street south of hyde square over a ten min walk to the T.

Exactly.

That render made me laugh.

They are both good. The first one is great.

That is so incredibly reactionary... Shows the deep relationship between the state and capital for what it is, hardly in contradiction but really in complete cooperation. Take a percentage of wages bosses already extracted value from and give it back to the bosses? Contrary to the post above...

That does not mean overpaying. That only means workers are receiving a larger share of their own labor. They still will not see even close to their share of the value they created though. Never mentioned income inequality and frankly I think that is a poor metric to understand the social...

A tunnel could even have heavy rail right? The density of the area could definitely support it, as could roxbury south of it. In the MassDOT study I linked on the last page they even mention that the density is higher than what is needed for light rail and enough for heavy rail (and that was...

That is a bad understanding of gentrification. Even if your rent doesnt increase if everything else around you also gets more expensive and your community is displaced you are still negatively impacted by gentrification.

The building currently on the left corner should be saved. This is hideous.

Re: New us masterplanned city. This would be incredibly wasteful and it makes far more sense to adapt existing urban spaces rather than build a new one out of the blue for no reason. Of course you can't start from zero in the same way but the idea that you even should and that the formation of...

I don't disagree and chelsea as well as everett have the density to support heavy rail (14,000+ per sq mile in chelsea, 11,000 per sq mile in everett), rapid bus and a commuter rail connection to one line isn't enough.

Some part of me will miss the fake wood walls and ms paint felt chairs.