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Re: Driven By.... Uhh... Hello? Anybody? Maybe it's just me, but I think there's plenty of space between employees sleeping on the job and employees being chained to their work stations with the exits locked. And I'm not sure what improvement in quality you'd hope to see by running the T like...

Re: Driven By.... Uhh... Hello? Anybody? You're not wrong that few people only work 8 hours a day anymore, but it's also 100% Race to the Bottom to criticize a work-place/union/whatever for sticking to it.

Re: The Merano (Parcels 1B & 1C) | Bulfinch Triangle | West End Updating previous info, to my complete surprise, they've totally cleared out all the Causeway Street Construction stuff. Looks like we may be moving on Merano soon after all.

Re: The Merano (Parcels 1B & 1C) | Bulfinch Triangle | West End FYI: they're currently using the lot as a staging area for the Causeway Street reconstruction. Maybe they'll moving everything for the Merano to start, but I wouldn't be surprised if the start took a few more months. Eyeballing it...

Re: Driven By.... Uhh... Hello? Anybody? "Constantly"? Like, you ran the numbers and found "the workers" abuse to be "constant"? Let's pump the brakes on the hyperbole, please.

If you want great reads about Federal housing and urban development policy: From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America Edited by John F Bauman, Roger Biles, and Kristin M. Sylvan The Federal Government and Urban Housing By R. Allen Hayes

A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis, Boston 1850-1900 By Stephen Puleo A Decent Place To Live: From Columbia Point to Harbor Point-A Community History By Jane Roessner The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions By Hillel Levine and Lawrence Harmon...

I've been through the McKim about 5 times recently, and still can't decide how I feel. It's bizarre, although not necessarily negatively bizarre. From the outside where you can see it right next to brutalist concrete, it looks extremely 70s. I think it works from the inside though. It's bright...

Re: Driven By.... Uhh... Hello? Anybody? I'd put anything Glaeser or the Rapaport Center has produced up against any of the usual hack work from Pioneer (you're recommendation is cut taxes? Again? Wow, that's a new one). Remember that Chieppo's putting this material out as a short term IOP...

Re: Driven By.... Uhh... Hello? Anybody? Doesn't exactly scream "innovative," does it?

Gotta love those years of unlimited growth where HUD has cut funding to cities, states, and agencies every single year.

Studies have actually shown speed bumps aren't great traffic calmers. Drivers slow down to go over the bumps, but then speed up faster than they'd normally drive to race to the next one (which is also bad for fuel consumption and general wear and tear).

Re: 111 Federal St. | Formerly Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 Pretty damning that the city had to take the property away from the Redevelopment Authority in order to get it redeveloped. Edit: shit, not sure what the hell happened to my reading ability. Process dyslexia or something.

I think the larger issue with raising fees is, fine, raise the fees in an attempt to force affordable unit construction. Now where the hell are you gonna put those units? You gonna help developers push passed the NIMBYs? Because if not, all you've done is increased the price of housing...

You're doing the Lord's work here. Thanks.

The garden addition totally ruins the elegant lines that make 100 Federal look like a dirty bong.

LOL. Love the egomania.

^Now see, that's nice. It reminds me of Taliesin West in a way. I think the issue is that Brutalism works well when it's outfitted in nice textures and colors, and it fails when it's outfitted in "1970s Office Chic." Which is something that really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. So much...

Smoooooooooth! Expeeeeeeensive!

What's the point? This is like hacking a Boston.com poll about what your favorite season is.