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You have a thoroughly antiquated definition of "urban" that these days not even planning departments and the census bureau believe in. It's not traffic and street lights. It is pedestrians. Many urban places have both (Champs-Elysees, Newbury Street, Collins Avenue) and remain urban.

Touche. Got me, statler! Mea culpa. (I know too much that ain't necessarily so.)

I think so.

From the website: "ConstellationCenter will be one of the world?s finest performing arts centers. This Center will enable optimal presentation of a wide range of performance events. Musical performances will range from classical music (from early music to new music), classic pipe and theater...

Free concerts often don't fill up. Ditto, cheap concerts. The price of a ticket is mostly dependent on the artist's demand. If you want a top-notch group that will pack 'em in, like the Sequoia Quartet, you have to pay their fee. And that doesn't translate into cheap tickets. Do the math...

NIMBYism cut it down so it was shorter than its neighbor. Glad to see Charlotte is finally getting its due as the epicenter of all things bad in urban design. Truth is though, that it's been dethroned by the likes of Phoenix. In fifty years at its present rate of progress, Charlotte may get...

Whether four halls or five, it's overreaching. Boston doesn't have nearly enough of a pool of concert-goers. This would maybe fly in New York, London or Vienna.

Isn't this a replica of the depressing green building that was there before? Walking by it, I always thought it was paltry. Now they've reproduced ir, paltriness and all. Aside from the clean new surfaces, where's the progress? (Oh, I know ... it's not an auto repair shop any more.}

Too much education. The problem ain't that folks are ignorant; the problem is they know so much that ain't so.

Yes. It would entail that, but the masters are mostly interested in not rocking the boat. This goes as far as keeping architects out of important meetings with the BRA and other authorities. Never know what they'll say.

Architects serve at the pleasure of their masters. They have plenty to lose.

^ That's called "sour grapes." Kairos Shen is either an idiot or a lackey (probably the latter).

Has anyone thought of opening the borders and allowing unlimited immigration? Wouldn't that be the Libertarian/Free Market solution? When the dust settled, wouldn't we have the United States of North America --a bigger economy than EU?

^ So ... your point is ... ?

Re: BRA approves Emerson College's Paramount Center Exactly. And badly lit, to boot.

You're describing Suburbia. Suburbia is not urban. Even the census bureau no longer believes Suburbia is urban, praise the Lord. Once upon a time folks used the oxymoron "urban sprawl", but thankfully those days are over. Nowadays, people recognize that "urban" is exactly where there's no...

Re: BRA approves Emerson College's Paramount Center Improvement? Maybe not, Ron; I think you'd still be disappointed in the new place. Maybe you would not be alone. This might be a symptom of widespread disillusionment:

The best and most urban part of greater Miami isn't Miami at all; it's the separate municipality of Miami Beach --especially South Beach. And you're right; downtown Miami is pathetic. Actually, I found Little Havana to be equally boring, while Coral Gables was nice like Brookline is nice; and...

Re: New tower at Christian Science Church Plaza ^ What's a CAC?

This is so well stated that I can't add more to it, except to exclaim "bravo!" Well, not quite ... It's worth pointing out that in the late Nineteenth Century, Libertarians were known as "Anarchists", and they claimed the lives of two American presidents, and later started World War I. Note...