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Would be a great addition to the area - now if only Beech Street could get re-paved.

Curbed Guess this belongs in 'new development' - Curbed has (at last) started a Boston page "Curbed Boston: The Boston Neighborhoods and Real Estate Blog" http://boston.curbed.com/

There isn't a great amount of information in this article. It is implied that this money is still there, but it may be the case that it isn't. As for why the person was let go, it is not clear that it was Patrick's supposed dislike of Smart Growth. As for being a friend of the tea party, I...

What happened in Toronto is the same thing (city-county consolidation) that happened here in Indianapolis, Nashville and Jacksonville 1970ish and Louisville 2000ish - the UK has created many "metropolitan counties" in recent decades too - none of these have been exercises in dick helicoptering...

The ArchBoston community is thorough in its review of Boston development projects if nothing else. Can you think of equivalent communities in other cities? The Curbed blogs cover development issues (in DC, SF, LA, NY, Seattle, Chi) but the lack of a wiki format makes them inferior in my...

Very interesting article on DC demographics http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/us/18dc.html?pagewanted=all

Re: 303 Third St (Kendall Square) Looks about like what's going up in Dallas these days. Actually in Dallas it would have a pool, so this is a little worse. Not much else can be expected out of the real estate folks I guess.

Fort Worth has better museums than Dallas though - including the Kimball. It also has this: http://www.trinityrivervision.org/Projects/CCTU.aspx However to really sum up Fort Worth versus Dallas: crap versus shit. Can't say I like either. Too bad I live here.

The urbanist kool-aid has certainly been flowing. Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox are having a field day over at newgeography. On the other hand, I think this census is indicating an interesting trend: in many cities (Chicago, Oakland, Atlanta among them) the declines/meager growth is due mostly to...

Yes Patrick it's a brownfield redevelopment ... an underused industrial area north of downtown.

and lurker ... yes it is a shame that the US has chosen to build its cities around what must be the most expensive types of infrastructure out there in the world - and not just in terms of cost to the taxpayers en masse, but individuals, who each have to buy and maintain their own cars in order...

true. check out christopher leinberger's "the option of urbanism" in which he makes a case for leveling the playing field between suburbanism and urbanism.

all fair observations lurker. so what do you think of what the tea party has to say about 'smart growth'? more food for thought: http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/9122/virginia-tea-party-opposes-less-government-regulation-with-antismart-growth-ecoextremist-hysteria/

I don't know if this is "amazing shit" but it is in Texas, which is pretty amazing. http://www.trinityrivervision.org/Projects/CCTU.aspx

That's right czsz. At a meeting down here in Texas on the Fort Worth Trinity River Vision (http://www.trinityrivervision.org/Projects/CCTU.aspx) - they showed up and claimed the TIF wouldn't pay for all of the necessary improvements and that the taxpayers would have to bail out the city - a...

Thoughts? http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2010/11/tea-party-agenda-21-un-sustainable-development

oh, right, heh.

erikyow I don't think there are 2 million people within 150 square miles anywhere in massachusetts. In the United States except for New York City. That would require a density slightly greater than boston's over that entire area. while the dense urban area does extend beyond boston proper, it...

According to The Boston Indicators Project of 2004, the city had approximately 32,000 fewer housing units in 1950 for 200,000 more people, or about 3.64 per unit . It is very exciting that not only boston, but several eastern are seeing big gains (washington and new york), or some gains for the...

So going from "ghetto skid row" to "millionaires row" is due to people seeking easier access to government services? what convoluted explanation is behind that one?