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i really have to make it to the deyoung my next trip up north.

eh, a few more - i dont play tourist enough. the aon building and library tower downtown the "house of davids" in hancock park, tacky even for socal. 7th and hope or so, downtown the grove, the hilarious lifestyle center to end all lifestyle centers in miracle mile sunset strip the...

people think of one big city, and then the rest? so you mean people think of LA, and then the rest, because that's how most californians think of it. SF is a boutique town - a gentrified burg of 750,000, lacking in diversity and excitment, effectively a suburb of san jose. Of course, it's a...

hey where's the rest of the state? you know, most of it? :)

Re: Congress St Garage is being sold. democracy is short-sighted and inefficient, and it's probably the best we can do.

ablarc, you may be interested in reading "the evolution of built landscapes in metropolitan regions" in the journal of planning education and research ... the author segregates metropolitan areas into different types of buildouts. i don't understand what about your third criteria is not purely...

Re: Congress St Garage is being sold. overturn ambler vs. euclid

Re: Congress St Garage is being sold. from my post earlier today: allow the developer to play with a series of give-and-takes, for example, if a developer can go high enough in the first place to cover the cost of the parcel, if a maximum parking requirement offsets the cost of going high on a...

Re: Congress St Garage is being sold. You can also kill a city by not sustaining the economy. Where would NYC be without its aggressive disposition policies of the last 30 years? I'm not saying redevelopment authorities and other tools for land-banking are always in the right, especially for...

Re: Congress St Garage is being sold. But if you're trying to remain economically competitive with suburbs, why would you try to discourage land-banking? Indeed, most American cities have been trying to facilitate it for decades through their redevelopment agencies. Secondly, even if you do get...

Re: Copley Place plan calls for condo tower so mepa would not apply to this project?

Re: Copley Place plan calls for condo tower i dont know if all the terminology is the same in MA, but the BRA will do an environmental assessment of the project and determine if an EIR is necessary. (1) someone can sue the BRA if they feel that the BRA did not correclty assess the effects of...

you shouldn't slam this, this is progressive for a small suburb and *not* something you see going into code every day. also, parking must be in the rear. Setbacks from the lot line are not excessive - pretty typical. They did set a front setback maximum - and restrict uses for such a large...

Sure the interviewee is from Dallas, but even if you dismiss his story, the figures do mean something. But they don't mean the argument is valid - perhaps many people don't have the income at the moment to sink money into improving older properties. Or it could be that amenities conversions...

Re: Shreve, Crump & Low bldng may be replaced w/ new develop Wow, I'm *shocked* by the attitude of that BRA guy - some serious bureaucratic arrogance there. Unprofessional, to refer to you as a 'posse'.... Boston's politics must be just so established, dominated by the usual voices, that the...

Re: Columbus Center oh and the problem will be so effectively mitigated: for example, by ubiquitous ominous signage! i have to say, it hasn't kept me out of parking garages, because i need to park, though gas prices did work, though that only led me to run into these signs in transit...

Boston is already starting to resemble cities with older Chinatowns and higher rates of immigration from China and other Asian countries. In Los Angeles, Chinatown is basically a tourist attraction, although it does have some services for the Chinese community, churches, temples, festivals etc...

did you really respond to jimbo's comment about dog poo with a very crude reference to gay sex? odd/amazing.

as far as linkage fees go and appeasing neighbors, nothing unique about boston there. could this article have covered anything besides some authorities' architectural tastes? he is the chief planner - housing production? land use policy? relationship with transportation planners? and he is the...

"Of course we're played out in this country --no news there. We're effete and incapable of potent action like the last emperor's China: bureaucratized, demoralized, traumatized and paralyzed. So what else is new? Haven't most of us known this for ages?" phew, another source of gut-wrenching...