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Nice work! Slight aesthetic suggestion: straighten out the tips of the B, C, and E, as well as the end of Red at Alewife. Those slight curls at the end occur on angles that are softer and go against the overall “angles aesthetic” used elsewhere in this as well as many spider maps. I see what you...

I have spent many years walking up and down the stretch of Cambridge St between MGH and Bowdoin Sq end to end in the day. The pedestrian experience is unpleasant because 1) the road is wide, as @Justbuildit noted, and 2), nearly every building's articulation with the street/sidewalk is...

Excellent infill

Funny, I like the one that everyone is trashing. It will depend on the materials but I think it has the makings to be a very fine building.

Ha I hadn’t noticed that, that’s funny, but the materials also look blech and cheap but the brick and stone look nice so far in real life. Hopefully the projected portions’ materials aren’t too plasticky. We’ll see. Brighton Center is dying for some height though so I’m a big fan of this. I...

This one, so far at least, actually looks better than the renders.

Very high quality pics. Great clear weather for that, too.

Brutally and soul-killingly ugly. Like bad institutional architecture from the 1940s. Why would they propose something so hulking and hideous? This is extreme even for cheap Boston housing.

I always liked this intersection—it has the feeling of what it probably is or was, which is a notable crossroads of important roads. I hope this project can add some activation via street level retail, but the buildings themselves already look like the enclose the intersection nicely.

I really hope congestion pricing works out in NYC and that this is something that we will live to see here. I wish we could at least just do a pilot of it.

you capture the crucial part actually which is “interesting” not height. I think the main issue is that from afar most of these buildings are squat which fairly screams “office park”. A couple buildings more graceful or interesting would make a difference just as much as come height would. The...

I've ranted about this frequently on here, but the modern era has seen an unprecedented ossification of spatial reality. That is, every square inch of land is defined, ordered on some "level" (sub-neighborhood, neighborhood, city, etc) and stays that way for eternity. The idea of even national...

Amazing work on this, thanks. Also, I always wondered about why that part of Harrison Street was oddly wide.

Arrrg, Cambridge skyline would look so much better with a couple tall skinnies, those stumps are brutal.

Due to discussion about the Millennium Plaza steps, I did some searching and came across this interesting database of all Boston’s privately owned public spaces: https://boston.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Shortlist/index.html?appid=27d21812cdcb4e348fd58b86e92f6310 Cool link, check it out

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I don’t think apologist arguments for frequently closing public amenities for less than justifiable reasons are indicated here. While some statements here might be somewhat hyperbolic, denigrating them as unreasonable and cheerfully accepting the (bullshit) excuses that are often offered for...

Like I said already, I’ve been to many cities, in the winter, at similar climates than Boston, and not seen this. I wouldn’t have phrased my question as I did if I thought we could simply write it off on the weather which is the excuse for all manner of abysmal transportation issues in Boston...

Welcome to Boston, where nice things are broken or closed for months or years at a time. if liability was going to be considered an issue, they never should’ve built stairs. What a compete embarrassment.

But why is it that sunken covers even on medium speed roads are so common around here? It’s a problem, it creates hazards for vehicles and wear and tear, and because it clearly is not as much of an issue in other cities, it’s something that every local public works department Should be...