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I took a quick look at a few pages in this thread, and noticed a remarkable absence. That would be the word Democrat. Democrats rule this state with an iron fist, and have for decades. Any institutional problem you see starts and ends with Democrats on Beacon Hill. The problem isn't 'politics'...

Sorry - bad link. Try this: http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/bt/Documents/UnfittestOXREPHelm3.4PRINT.pdf

Firefox and both Windows 7 and XP. I've been using the Boston Atlas for a few years now with no problem I can remember - literally hundreds of times.

Before you get all huffy, you might want to answer my first question, taken from the quoted article: "But in the 118-page Landmarks Commission report that recommends preserving the complex, there?s no concise explanation of exactly why the Christian Science Center deserves protection." And my...

I have no problem with the Boston Atlas using the New Flash Viewer. The David Rumsey Collection has 1899: http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/search/where/Boston%20%28Mass.%29/when/1899?q=boston&sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort,Pub_Date,Pub_List_No,Series_No

Your understanding of the needs of an Olympic host are profound. Atlanta was absolutely hammered in the international media for their effort - they just weren't good enough. And that's in spite of the fact that they had the CEO of one of the world's great brand names - Coke - behind them. It...

An old thread, but.... To understand Boston in the 1950s-60s, you have to understand Boston. This was a city built not on exports, but on trade (I'm simplifying over time, here). The region didn't have raw materials to export, nor a river to carry trade from inland regions (like New York)...

Back on topic. I just read a very good paper on the failures of big public construction projects, including in passing the Big Dig. Worldwide, new train projects tend to come in at double the predicted cost, and service half the riders originally estimated. Or course, the Big Dig did worse than...

All of our infrastructure is in such deplorable condition because the legislators you vote for constantly add new spending to the budget to buy votes. That new spending comes out of money that should have been spent keeping up bridges, roads, dams, public transportation, etc. You can't buy votes...

So if they own the property, why do they need the government to protect it? Are they afraid they might tear down a building on a bender, and regret it later? Exactly what is in it for them?

Boston. Host the Olympics? Bwahahahaha! Bwahahahaha! Stop - you're killing me! But seriously, folks... I'm old enough to remember when this came up back in the 1970s-80s. They were talking about putting up athletes in college dorms all over Boston/Cambridge, and using Harvard Stadium...

Which makes me believe there's some kind of back-room dealing going on here. What motivated this move? Was someone going to tear down the complex and built a WalMart? Not likely, so why move now? This stinks of the typical insider manipulation of the system you get in this sort of commission.

Why won't the multi-quote icon work? Anyway, that triangle of land was, literally, the back bay. It's the same filled land, no different from Comm. ave. What defined the rectilinear Back Bay residential district from the rest of the back bay filled land was the pre-existing railroad tracks...

They were already showing naturist movies in the future combat zone in the 1950s. Volleyball, anyone?

This is the 'reasonable' thread? Bwahahaha! Just sayin.'

There was a Poe Square in the early 1900s at Broadway and Carver st. The intersection is gone now.

I assume you never get beyond Melnea Cass blvd. Go down to Lamartine st and think about an eight lane highway within spitting distance. Not much worse? And interstate cloverleaf at Forest Hills? As to socioeconomically disadvantaged - try buying a house between Stony Brook station and Forest...

The problem with the Southwest Expressway and Inner Belt wasn't that they weren't good transportation policy.The problem was that there was no room for such a system. The Southeast Expressway did cut through Savin Hill, but much of its route had the harbor on one side, or cut through old South...

Good question. The city street atlas doesn't pick Dartmouth place up until 1873, probably from the Sanborn map that shows the whole district already built out. Nancy S. Seasholes' book Gaining Ground - A History of Landmaking in Boston might at least tell you when that district was built. Why...

Re: Tremont Crossing in Roxbury Even Roxbury residents? That's very white of you.