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@dshoost88, that’s a great illustration that Cambridge is doing more than neighboring communities to build housing. But that doesn’t really respond to the point I was making. If Cambridge had had a growth rate even higher over the last 9 years, would we say the city is off the hook and doesn’t...

Seems like funny logic. More needs to be happening at higher levels government, sure, but that shouldn’t absolve smaller actors of trying to do the most that they can (especially since I don’t believe density must be seen as a burden, but that’s a separate argument). If I were a planner with...

Why would these hypothetical taller buildings need to be office space? This project brings 2,400 units of housing online, which is nothing to sneeze at. But it also sits directly on two rapid transit lines and likely has more jobs within walking distance than almost anywhere else in New...

Thanks @JS38! For someone who is familiar with the history of Boston's infill but not an expert, the TL;DW takeaways for me were the explanation of why the Seaport laid essentially empty for so long and why the Kennedy presidential library is located where it is. Essentially, the intended...

I mean if you can only have one, sure, but seems like a false choice. People will continue to walk on Seaport Boulevard, and if they are headed north it would be great to be placed directly on the harbor walk without having to double back. I guess I’ve always thought the same about the southern...

They ought to have the newly-constructed harborwalk step up to meet the Evelyn Moakley Bridge. Would make for a much better pedestrian experience.

I'm failing to find any good discussion on them with some cursory googling, but one generalized form of successful plazas are the Plaza de Armas. Across the Latin American world, many cities are centered on a historical Plaza de Armas, which are human scale (some run a bit large), surrounded by...

Jeez I hate this. Scary how easily we could have ended up here.

1 Western Ave doesn't get enough ridicule, because it's terrible in a way that's subtler than some of Boston's more infamous buildings. They took five cheap apartment blocks, that on their own could go unnoticed, and stacked them atop one another in a gimmicky way such that you're forced to pay...

A timely bit of news relevant to this discussion; Uber is exiting the game: https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/07/uber-sells-self-driving-unit-uber-atg-in-deal-that-will-push-auroras-valuation-to-10b/ I would read this as much more of a statement on Dara and not the entire industry though.

This humongous sunk cost signals that we will either get something pretty sizable here or nothing at all. Gonna take a lot of new square footage to pay for renovating/incorporating this.

Has to be one of the funnier, snarkier lines I've read in one these "What We Heard" sections.

Why would they be up to the fifth floor on the east half of the structure and pause after the first floor on the west half? I don’t think I’ve seen that before.

2 more floors, plus mechanicals, to go if I’m counting correctly

To me, the obvious trick to boost vaccine uptake is to take the “normal life” activities people want to get back and to gate them based on vaccination status. Bring live sports back as early as possible in 2021. Require stadiums to check for proof of vaccination upon entry. Ticketmaster is...

It's moved, closed, and reopened, but Keezer's suits has been open in Cambridge since 1895. Had one of their tuxedos for junior prom.

I'm positive this comparison has been made before, but urban renewal pictures like this honestly look like European cities after being bombed out in WW2. Except we did it to ourselves.

I'm not going to bother digging up the post, but someone on this board in the last month claimed that none of us will see autonomous vehicles in our lifetimes. By 2035? I'm not sure if I would take the over or under on that. The history of machine learning has involved long periods of "AI...

I swear we wouldn’t have electricity running to every home if NIMBYism and Thomas Edison had been contemporaries.

Oof.