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No, it's not a false equivalence, because all public parks cost a lot -- if not in their actual construction, then in the opportunity cost of what is not being built in its place. Almost every park in almost every single urban environment in the world produces a lower "return on investment" than...

It's a public park; it's not supposed to have a return on investment. What's the return on investment of the Commonwealth Avenue Mall? Plenty of space for some TOD in the heart of the Back Bay there!

What exactly makes a park located in a neighborhood that is both (1) one of the densest in the city, and (2) completely lacking in green space, "superfluous?"

Chinatown has the single worst air quality in the entire city, owing largely to institutional racism that led to the neighborhood being treated as an on-ramp (which came after decades of the city forcing the red light industry onto the neighborhood whether the people living there wanted it or...

Only 6 on-site parking spaces! It's not really being reported and discussed, but personnel changes Wu has made to the ZBA are having a major impact on development in Boston -- for the better. I don't think this building would have been approved last year with such little parking.

The "park" is a median strip, the office buildings and academic buildings are hostile to the public, and even if any of the buildings were welcoming, they're separated from the water by 150 feet of traffic.

Is the Cambridge bank of the Charles the most wasted space in metro Boston? I once had a friend ask me where he and his group could eat in Cambridge with a view of Boston. I was shocked by the fact that I didn't have any suggestions for him.

I'm nothing even close to a civil engineer, but my understanding is that it's possible that a properly managed canal can actually help to mitigate flood risk. I know this is what they're looking into doing in Corpus Christi, at least.

It's not supposed to be navigable for merchant ships -- it's supposed to be an amazing urban place. Picture Utrecht's Catharjinesingel Canal, or Seoul's Chongae:

Wow - these would surely be Roslidale's two largest residential buildings.

Honestly? I mostly played a game of connect-the-empty-lots, with the notable exceptions of the WB Mason distribution center, which surely won't survive the eventual urbanization of this neighborhood anyway, and the Gilette facility, which is as good as gone as it is. These lots -- which are...

Because canals are cool as shit:

It has one of the best street levels of any tower its size in the city. that's far more important than the dumb windows.

Pretty sure it was a very early parking garage.

In light of the forthcoming Soldier's Field Road diet, this seems to have pretty poor street-level interaction.

During his life, Martin Luther King was SAVAGELY taken down by both the mainstream media and the majority of white America that it catered to. He was constantly accused of inciting hatred and violence; the FBI viewed him as a national security threat and tried to blackmail him; he was vilified...

Here, I'll help you: people being pushed out of a neighborhood they helped keep alive when the rest of the city didn't give a shit about it. Christ, and you're going to quote Shakespeare to mock them? Which side do you think he'd be on? I'll give you two damn seconds to think about it.

That looks outstanding, and I'm not sure how anyone can complain that these are too short. Five, six, and seven story buildings are perfect for this location. If this was repeated at half of the commuter rail stations in the MBTA system, we wouldn't have a housing crisis.

Not every new building needs to cater to everyone's housing needs. These are perfect for people who in their early 20's who care about location first and foremost, and view their apartments as little more than places to sleep and store their stuff. I'd love to see a lot more of these.

This post is a perfect example of why many posters get so frustrated with the height fetishists. Boston is exploding in an interesting and dynamic way, with entirely new neighborhoods, entertainment centers, and population nodes being built, and you don't care because none of them have a...