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Somerville, in other words. Not knocking either, I've lived in them both. But I agree that Quincy ought to have more urban amenities and more dense development, perticularly around each of its multiple red line stops.

No, Fidelity's HQ is in the very non-descript 82 Devonshire/35 Congress collection of interconnected buildings.

Sorry, but I agree with the others. I like that Fidelity Investor Center building. I dislike the automatic doors which open anytime you round the corner, but it's a decent building for that parcel.

Re: Trans National Place (Winthrop Square) Part 2 But Otis Street will still be open, so it's not like there will be a sudden dead end in the financial district.

Re: Menino Proposes Selling City Hall The problem with just selling part of the plaza (which I would completely support) is that the federal government (the abutting JFK building) has security concerns with whatever goes on in the plaza. Any chance of building on CHP or making renovations to...

Didn't Leonardo da Vinci come up with some ratio of street width to building height which has long been said to be the ideal proportion, something like a 3:1 ratio? If that's the case and if the Greenway is 150' wide (from building foundation on one side of the street to the building foundation...

Maybe I'm slow, but I've only just begun to recognize how Orwellian and the insidious the the use of the term "Manhattanization" is. I think it is deliberately used by local critics to stoke the built-in anti-NY animus many Bostonians have. It would take a hundred years of unfettered economic...

100% in favor. Aside from the rising costs of energy today (and which only promises to grow more and more expensive as China and India suck up more of the world's petroleum supplies), wind is a free resource and there are precsious few spots in Massachusetts where wind farms like this are...

I was thinking about this since my past reply. I think the A/B neighborhood advocates who want open space as part of this project should take a field trip to Beacon Hill and ask the residents there about how welcome they feel to go into Charles River Park for an afternoon of enjoying the "open"...

That's not true at all. There are things such as proportion and placement which make any project (or park) successful. I think most of the people on this forum who decry certain parks do so because the parks or open spaces in question are either disproportionately large, poorly placed, or are...

LOL -- that's too funny. My first quote. And I'm neither an architect nor an urban planner!

Not to get totally off topic, but I live in that district... in Needham. For the life of me, I can't figure out how I'm in the same district as Southie.

Not alone.

Man... I don't want to slag a neighborhood, but that's one of the more grim and depressing sections of Boston, if you ask me. I'd hate to see nothing but low-rise suburban office park-type buildings go up surrounded by space-wasting patches of neglected green lawns, but even that would be an...

I agree and disagree. I think it depends on which museums you're talking about. Having grown up just outside NYC, I know that certain museums thrive more on suburban and inner city day trippers (Museum of Natural History, Hayden Planetarium, Museum of the American Indian -- is it still called...

But you can still have an opinion, and everyone should have some manner of say, even those outside the neighborhood. This is a project which could have major economic implications for the entire region. As such, it is bigger than just the handful of people who live in its (pardon my use of the...

I agree 100%. Open lawns have no place in a city outside parks. And these are not public parks in any way. The open space the community is clamoring for will go completely unused by anyone but the few people who live in the abutting buildings and who will only rarely want to go outside to...

We must commute in entirely different circles, because I so rarely encounter uniform adherence to this unspoken rule here in Boston. To be fair, though, I have seen it more frequently when I've exited from the commuter rail platform at Back Bay during the morning rush, but I still encounter the...

I noticed that the satellite view on Google maps has finally been updated to reflect the Greenway and not the elevated central artery.

I'd give it a hip name like the B-Mod (the Boston Museum of Design), which could help identify Boston as a forward looking and arts-oriented place. And I love Calatrava, so I'd also pick him. Location? IMO, the best place would be City Hall Plaza. The city could dedicate a wedge-shaped piece...