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Waal ... they're in the running ... but do they qualify as "bigger" ... and have they arrived at the finish line? Pittsburgh was once a city --and a bigger one at that. Then they improved it after the mills closed. Some folks would have rooted for Baltimore's inclusion, but it's pretty...

"Successful cities" is not an anomaly. The successful cities are the ones that really are cities. They have rail transit, are walkable, and they're relatively free of urban-fabric-shedding parking lots. van mentioned Buffalo and Indianapolis. Would anyone interested in urban living choose to...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos When I lived at the end of the Commonwealth Avenue line, the cause of clumping was card games among the drivers. The card games were clearly visible from the sidewalk. When the card game could no longer be reasonably prolonged, the drivers scattered to...

That was metaphoric hyperbole based on a bedrock of truth. If you've been a regular visitor to New York over the last quarter-century, you know there are for more baby carriages than before. No, there are far more. Two reasons for that: Number 1. Used to be, Manhattan's singles got married...

All areas of Manhattan are moving towards swank. The folks you're referring to aren't mostly "upper classes that never left." Though they make salaries that would be regarded as high in Raleigh, these are actually yuppies that sort-of made it. And many, if not most, of them are from another...

ROSS: Is he too big to fail?

You live in New York, van; have you noticed the number of baby carriages? Wasn't like that when I was a New Yorker.

Aye, there's the rub. As American city cores urbanize, they naturally become more like Paris. Even half a century ago, Paris' suburbs were not the place to be. They used to be populated by working class Frenchmen; nowadays, its more and more immigrants.

White flight? Suburbs lose young whites to cities By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer ? Sun May 9, 12:52 am ET WASHINGTON ? White flight? In a reversal, America's suburbs are now more likely to be home to minorities, the poor and a rapidly growing older population as many younger, educated...

^ Death wish?

It might cause them extra effort, as the elevator requires a plastic-card room key to activate at most times.

The last is a highly operatic distortion of reality worthy of Giacomo Puccini himself --an exact contemporary of this tower. In heaven, he applauds.

^Right on, man. Acoustics, being scientific, takes as long as mathematical calculations. Beyond that, you're getting into voodoo.

Re: The Boston Arch (Aquarium parking garage) There's a lot of discussion going on here about a project that is so sketchily presented that I have no idea what I'm looking at. Are we passing judgment on the emperor's clothes?

^ Isn't Gund's building an example of what you're advocating?

In other words, private police and street sweepers. Also probably, potted geraniums hanging from lamp posts. More like a mall.

What a sympathetic companion Graham Gund's building is for Faneuil Hall. Similar bulk, similar fenestration, similar materials, similar kit of parts --with just enough deviation for interest. Think how disruptive this building would be in glass. Even in a master's hands. Time to shake the...

It was time for that years ago. The fans have gone home.

Are they actually reconstructing anything or are they merely littering the street with construction paraphernalia?

What was the name of the cheap diner down by the dock? Their lightly-battered smelts and their calamari were to kill for. Bet the place is gone.