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A "satellite city" I guess.

other way around - newton was part of cambridge, which was originally called newtown, or new towne, or however it was spelled. yes somerville is a suburb, a dense one. in urban theory an exurb - see similar edge city, technoburb, exopolis, (make your own neologism here) - is an urbanized area...

Shulman's photo of Bunker Hill during its redevelopment

This and the other case study houses are wonderful to look at - and glass houses cantilevered over canyons on active faults make me chuckle a bit. Next time anyone is out here you can go online and download a list and addresses of all the case study houses and drive around the hills for a day -...

My attempt at Shulman from a few years back. I love this house.

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center Thanks Ned - In regards to the city having an inventory of developable sites, yes, nearly every major city does. Would you aid the city a planning process where you helped identify the appropriate density for such sites in an advance planning...

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center reductio ad absurdum noted. I would like Ned to answer my question though.

Re: New Tower(s) Planned For Prudential Center I don't know if Ned is arguing that urban growth can necessarily be free of environmental impacts - but rather that if there is a specific, identifiable impact that is more significant than would be expected of a similar project located somewhere...

hahaha. i have wondered though - if an established little outlet of the hollywood industry does set up on the south shore - what of all its accessories eg gimmicky expensive restaurants and bars, etc ... the social side of the business should not be underestimated in importance! Will this be...

weymouth can have the tweaker midget dressed up as chucky, the hollywood/highland center, and even some palm trees. send some shade trees this way. Do you think Hollywood East will generate a large concentration of transvestite apparrel stores or is that a pipedream?

Well just exposure doesn't really do much, and it can paint a negative image, as it often does for LA heh - a shoot alone doesn't generate much more than a new temporary revenue source for any location, not jobs. Production, marketing, development, creative, graphics, editing, photography...

This is all interesting to follow - Just, on a rather insignificant note, every time I see the title to this thread I cringe - as someone who lives in Hollywood, and who enjoys many aspects of both the actual area and the greater, ethereal notion of the place, I am still not sure it is somewhere...

^^^ Indeed - an important thing for critics of zoning to understand, and a likely scenario throughout much of America if zoning were to somehow disappear tomorrow. Although I would add that the picture is not quite the same for Houston as everywhere else though - other critics, while bringing...

woah, boston is stepping into the 20th century (too bad they couldn't think of anything creative and go straight into the 21st); the city is establishing the same system used in every other city in the country since redevelopment authorities came about 60 years ago, as far as I can tell from...

You don't have to keep an area exclusive to keep property values up. Related to the Boston context, a 2004 MIT study showed 40B projects have no impact on neighboring property values. Glaeser at Harvard has done multiple studies showing that preferences for low-density are not 'rational'...

interstate highway system a good example.

Ya you can create incentives to subdivide larger pacels through zoning - I thought other posters were suggesting you may literally be able to directly zone them into existence. There is "small lot zoning" which is really a combination of revisions to zoning and subdivision codes - it operates...

Of course there's room for anecdotal evidence; too much of this debate however has been supported by anecdotal evidence and that is not appropriate. You wouldn't base your knowledge of an epidemic mostly on the testimony of a few sufferers. Statistics are necessary when you're dealing with an...

Zoning regulates use, density and bulk. Subdivision/platting regulates streets, access to lots, etc etc. Quite different, overseen by separate planning divisions. There is often zoning incident to subdivision, but you can't 'zone' a parcel into smaller lots. There are also private covenants...

See articles like this are overly anecdotal; "some planners say" argh - and when they do cite stats they do not pay attention to history. The housing cycle has ALWAYS reflected the general business cycle over the last century. Actually just writing that brought to mind a lecture I attended 1 or...