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Just keep in mind, I'm arguing that gambling is a counter-productive way to address the need for state revenues and economic growth. I'm definitely not suggesting that we need regulatory change in favor or against clothing stores or restaurants! I would not vote to in some way expand the...

Gambling doesn't create value. compare to a producer, e.g. a manufacturing or software firm. Gambling moves money from one pocket to another; whereas, the producer is creating new value -- money that didn't exist before. Because gambling doesn't create new money it has to take money from net...

Re: Filene's Just by degrees. After all, when you think about it, you're a socialist too, right? You like your secure homeland, clean streets, low crime, social security, and safe food & drugs, right? Sames as all of us.

Re: Rose Kennedy Greenway Seriously? Gambling is essentially a license to run a private tax on the population. Granted an opt-in tax, but come on, is this really what we want commerce in the Commonwealth to be about? If money is so tight and raising new revenue is the only answer, perhaps...

Re: MIT - Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Hult? not much of a campus, but maybe some day...

no, man, no! i got my first car @ 35 when i moved out of the city. Boston is completely walkable, T-able, even bikeable. groceries up the steep side of Beacon Hill in winter were tough, but so is shoveling out the car now. what else did you need the wheels for? coming from you -- pictures...

Re: Atlantic Wharf (formerly Russia Wharf) not remotely -- keep 'em coming!

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Re: Atlantic Wharf (formerly Russia Wharf) love the 1st and the 3rd ones. the grittiness is like some old photos from my early trips into the city in the late 70s w/a crap camera on 110 stock. cool texture, in a way.

what's the G2 on this. i think i like it.

cinema's don't have to be that large -- if it was still running in 05, remember the small rooms @ the nick? there are/were also a couple of small ones @ davis and the BFVF used to have a showing room that would seat maybe 30 around the corner from where the paris was. i do miss the larger...

as a lover of Kendall Sq. I take affront! in aggregate and detail Kendall Sq. has character, energy and an air of intense preoccupation -- even if many people don't like the effect, there is definitely a there there. this thing is just a box surounded by cement fields and sort of near a...

Re: MIT - Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research beautiful shot. Kendall is the 8-bit symphony of architecture.

I must have missed the part (earlier in the thread?) when you explained how this fits w/the Public Garden. Some of the Esplanade and the Fens too, right?

Re: Russia Wharf try out this long view, linear scale: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=^DJI#chart2:symbol=^dji;range=my;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined The DOW is 30 companies so not a great snapshot of even the American economy...

Re: Harvard - Allston Campus when the mood for a photo essay hits you next it would be great to learn more about what you are seeing in these buildings. i'm afraid i don't have enough knowledge about Modernism. what i see is designs that are crisp, but feel like an assignment on negative vs...

yes, but at least it's trying to be squat and fortress-like. that fan pier thing doesn't have any opinion of itself at all.

by Arborway in Re: Archstone-Smith - Cambridge MA (Not NorthPoint) 5/3/08

Re: BRA approves Emerson College's Paramount Center reminds me of the building that was proposed for the site across the street from the W. narrow. layered. wish we could have both buildings built on vacant parcels in that area.

that last shot reminds me of a building at the end of charles st. (across from the T on the right looking towards the common). that building might be a garage or former garage -- can't remember, but i liked it. it's a plain building, but fits it's context. this one will probably age...