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Re: Liberty Wharf (Jimmy's Harborside) Yeah, with three restaurants.

Financial District contains plenty of older (and dare one say? ... obsolete) office buildings that in New York would have been converted to condos (can you say "Woolworth"?). If you could build a few supertalls in Boston's Financial District, a similar phenomenon might occur to animate the...

Would this project be acceptable in El Salvador?

Multi-story parking would satisfy everyone. Retail at ground level.

I must have started it.

Well, you do sound frustrated, and I'm sorry about that. Shadowboxing. I bet we don't disagree about anything important. :)

Not Charlotte, huh? (Bank of America HQ and Wachovia HQ)

I came upon my opinions about cities at age ten; my parents took me to Paris for a month, bought me a Metro ticket, and told me to get lost. Since I?m older than either of the gents you cite, it can?t be spoon feeding; I must have gotten there first. Later, in architecture school, my professors...

You could start by looking at Los Angeles.

No, it doesn't, because they have in common that you can't live without a car. Urban places are completely different animals from suburbs. So they need completely different policies to keep them healthy. You wouldn't feed horse pills to your garden or fertilizer to your horse. Setbacks...

If you broaden the definition of a term enough, you end up with a useless term. If you say urban is what is not farmland or forest you have to lump urban and suburban together --whereas they are actually opposite kinds of habitat. The end result is the oxymoronic tern "urban sprawl", which is...

^ You're not suggesting --are you-- that those lots were vacant 100 years ago?

No, it's remembering history, not repeating it. If you remember it, you won't repeat the dark parts. (Anyway, that's the theory.)

Re: New tower at Christian Science Church Plaza The water recirculates constantly, doesn't it? What would be accomplished by making it shallower? After it was filled, a shallow pool would lose the same amount of water by evaporation as a deeper pool.

It's not size that makes a place urban. All countries in Europe are full of hamlets and villages that are urban and have populations of fifty or less. Such places have clear borders interfacing with farmland or forest, so they don't sprawl and they have no suburbs. They usually have a small...

Exactly right. How far can you walk in Miami before you wonder if you're doing the right thing?

Bullshit! A parking lot is never OK, and no one ever needs to make excuses for one.

^ Didn't there used to be a Burger King or some such where there's now a nice BU parking lot on Comm. Ave.?

B.U. is no source of salvation. It will always crave, and carve out, parking lots until some law comes along to prevent it.

^ Thank you for that.