Search results

...an urban ring or GLX on the Grand Junction would solve the problem, since then we'd have a proper MIT station!

There is something that's definitely aesthetically displeasing about having a slash in a station name. I think it's because the name alone suggests a lack of focus and also that there is no single identity that is significant enough to tie to the station name by itself. I like the idea of...

Disagree. It's the urban renewal projects—reflected in the generic name of "Govt Center"—that are now equally, if not even more anachronistic to the zeitgeist. While I do agree with a part of the principle underlying your argument, which is that romanticized resurrections are to be avoided...

They should just rename Govt Center to "Government Center/Scollay" or something like that

I hate it and know it’s gonna look like plastic shit based on that render. Everybody finds over the idea of buildings like this but what happened to ARCHITECTURE? This is just recycled mimicry of a century ago. Why repeat over and over? Can we really not generate new ideas?

Wealthy urban cities have become very adept at this, a big part is graphic design. Compare municipal documents of today to the stuff you find on archive, it’s so snazzy looking but often all fluff. I think this is all a step in the right direction, but it’s sad to think that probably there...

This is really a huge win for this neighborhood. It’s one of the most scrappy parts of Boston and this will give this major intersection a big facelift. Hopefully will help the rest of Harvard St which is still pretty rough.

The special little S0 segment along Florence literally right behind the square is ridiculous. I like that Washington all the way to South St is high density though. Agree re Cummins.

She needs to marshal the real “community” instead of the loudest screamers who falsely claim to represent it. I don’t think I’ve seen a single media article that actually just goes down to Egleston Square and asks passersby what they thing of the stadium project. It’s all just interviews of the...

It’s very early in the race, and people will probably forget. But it might have been wiser to just not budge at all, since capitulating these days is as good as an admission of guilt.

Boylston had too many lanes but it was a pretty drastic change to do both bike lanes and bus lanes on a road that is always choked with traffic. Whether or not it is a good idea from a technocratic standpoint, one must also consider other factors. I hope she can pull this revision off without...

Yes—I find it suspect that moving around a lot = mobility, but he goes on to get more into related arguments that I think at their core are correct. I think you can still have a healthy, rooted community that is vibrant and neither the rootless modern America (that I think is quite unhealthy)...

I must say, and knowing this will be developed one way or another, this is a horrendous location for a development like this. Too many people, and the only access is right at the rotary (which will soon be a signaled intersection). No other way in or out.

I don’t but I worry there are a lot more than people think. I check the NY Post and the Herald (the latter less often since it’s paywalled) and see a lot of conservative crap that I think is representative of more of a slice of the population — the local population — than we’d like to think.

I thought I would make a new thread for this article (which I just read) and book (which I just ordered). While I do not entirely agree with all the premises, this author captures an essence I have long observed and wondered about: the fact that the most progressive neighborhoods who...

As is often the case, the bike stuff is often more about feelings than facts... but there are feelings that are out there now, and then there are untapped, potential feelings that can be drawn out/realigned/polarized depending on how things go. However, I must say, to lead with "bike lanes"...

Wu’s lived here for years and actually served as a city councilor. Huge difference.

I’m glad to see so many viewpoints similar to my own about Kraft. I do worry that there is an incipient or potential coalition of conservative-types of many stripes that includes people whom you wouldn’t necessarily call conservative but that when it comes to infrastructurally progressive...

Think he’s got a chance, F-Line? You usually have some choice insights…

Imagine if they made a tight street grid with apartment buildings on small lots, and a range of height… would be amazing and would totally knit this part of southie to the south end