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I always think of Boston as being a large house with very distinct rooms. Certain barriers, whether natural or man-made, limit sight lines and create fairly contained neighborhoods. The garden analogy works as well.

I'll admit that the preponderance of variations from reailty seem like errors on Google's part, but mapmakers historically have included bogus streets, mislabeled addresses, etc., so as to be able to identify illegally made copies in copyright infringement cases. Like I said, that probably...

Avalon was a much nicer club, IMO. I've been to Epic Saturday there and HOB strikes me as a very corporate place (fake signs, corrugated metal surfaces, etc.) -- kind of like seeing a white collar guy with a John Deere ball cap. Avalon had a bit of a mod/sleek feel to it and had a great loungy...

It works in France because the French actually have a mature attitude about alcohol, unlike Americans who see vice in just about everything.

Re: Atlantic Wharf (formerly Russia Wharf) The image from your jiggly camera shot (tall, slender, interesting concave side) would make for a much nicer building than anything we've gotten in the past couple of decades.

Boston 2020 was neer gonig to happen, anyhow. The IOC (and much of the world) considers North and South America a single continent. With Rio hosting in 2016, it was unlikely the IOC would schedule two successive summer games on the same continent. The IOC needs to move the games around to...

That meal cost you more than money.:p

...the degree of hucksterism, transportation problems, the records system which kept breaking down (as well as the organizers' screw up by recording athletes' physiological info -- ht/wt, etc. -- in lbs, not in metrics), Eric Rudolph, the 911 dispatchers who didn't even know where the Olympic...

Absolutely, but I believe this was the site of the doomed stadium Kraft wanted to build. The Southie old timers blocked that one hard. Actually, I think the entire Seaport could be developed as an Olympic zone: athlete's village (a few taller residential towers plus a street grid of 6 story...

Some of the sports listed could be hosted in much smaller arenas. My understanding is that Olympic boxing is rarely held in 15000 seat arenas -- more like the smaller arenas like Agannis or Conte Forum. Likewise, volleyball would be in a smaller arena (Conte-sized). Gymnastics needs a...

Re: Filene's I don't have stats to back me up, but I'd suspect the rents in DTC are much higher than in Inman Square. The higher the rent, the less likely a small, independent storefront could survive.

Re: Filene's Points well taken. My opinion on this is somewhat disjointed. I'd really hate to see nothing happen, but I would be adamantly opposed to undregraduate dorm space. Graduate housing... OK, I could be brought on board.

Re: Filene's I'm very much a pro-development guy, but I would be completely against student housing at this site. I'd rather have a hole in the ground until the market turns around and financing is available for a decent mixed use project. Student housing will just mean more Bollocos and...

Vancouver has two Olympic villages because it has two main Olympic locations, Vancouver city and Whistler. Whistler is remote enough to warrant a vaillage for the events taking place there. The individual sports federations -- which have huge influence over the IOC -- would require the...

But will likely never go to a town that small ever again (at least not without a major metro region co-hosting). The Winter games have become a high tech, expensive, and flashy sports festival that now requires an enormous investment in new venues, media centers, and trasnportation hubs. I...

Leather District

Re: Fan Pier "Greatest" is entire subjective. There's no doubt Boston is a great city, but greatest in the US? It depends on what qualities you put greater emphasis on. FWIW, I lived in the NYC metro area for the first half of my life and, while big and abounding in career opportunities and...

Miami is THE WORST airport serving a major metro area, by a mile. LaGuardia is pretty awful and Newark? Pshh... feggedaboutit.

Yet another example of how Menino seems to be all tactics and no strategy. Does the mayor's office have a consistent approach to any form of development or does it just throw ideas on the wall like spaghetti just to see which ones stick? "Geekville" is a terrible idea. The approach we should...