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The density of the North End is what makes it what it is. There is nothing architecturally signifigant - save for three or four +200 year old buildings - that are worth fighting over. The rest of it was built really quickly around 1900 by and for cheap immigrant labor... like very other East...

I want to add that I was at the meeting 15 or so years ago where the Boston Museum Project was proposed for Parcel 12 on the Greenway (the big, insanely cool glass ark proposal). Moshe Safdie was at the Marriott Long Wharf Meeting hall - in person - to explain his design to the locals. As you...

Love the Hall of Firsts! I would like that to be our city identity more than anything else. Beyond a ton of other firsts (Similac, anesthesia, fire alarm boxes, robotic surgery, atomic photography, immunization advances, data acceleration, the Middlesex Canal, to name a few), we solidly rocked...

Guy from Mayor's office: So the Big Dig is almost done and there is a bunch of land left over. What do you intend to do with it? Big Dig Big Wig: Well, we planned a bunch of gaping holes through the center of the city and we're limiting the eligible builders to public institutions, non-profits...

It's pretty cool. I wish it could stay. There are many deserving walls I liked this one, too

Just take the larger view, y'all. (Awesome goth trigger alert)

I dunno. There was a lot of loosey-goosey stuff going on over there back then. Hey, Troop F (F Troop?) I'm looking at you!

Macro view on the discussion: We all speak of relatively minor infrastructure improvements with "moonshot" financial and engineering language. It shows how we've allowed ourselves to be beaten down over the last 40 years. Christ! Raise or replace the old bridges. Buy the flat cars. Wire it ALL...

It looks like a half-ass solution. A 2-way loop would be best but a 2-way MBTA dead end would work. I'm imagining myself riding on one of those little red tram cars on my way to Terminal A after narrowly missing a piece of falling metal on the Airport T platform. I get off the T and have...

I love that this mockup doesn't even connect to the Airport T stop! And it's unidirectional. Have these guys been to other airports? There should be one arriving every 2 minutes in both directions A to E and E to A. Adding obligatory edited image to show how short they were from yadda yadda...

Y’see… This is what happens when Wham-O gets a design-build contract. Gotta say…it looks really cool! I’m surprised it actually got built in a town of such architectural self-flagellators. Say it. We deserve nice things.

I’m gonna go with BEMU lobbyists with cash filled briefcases. When it makes no sense, follow the money.

Cool as Terminal E is, I won't be happy until Massport catches a clue about really connecting public transportation. We need a smooth, non-bus connection to the T. Next time I'm stuck on one of the airport shuttle busses I'll put a microphone near the front shocks and luggage racks and record...

This shutdown is gonna be tough. If only there was some sort of "rail link" between North and South and Back Bay stations to take the burden off the system while we do this fix.

Yep, my great grandfather spun tall tales of when he grossly exceeded F.A.R. then got away without a shadow study when he built his occupancy exceeding tenement. He planned on having 25 people living on a 1000sq. ft parcel. Planned it! From the beginning! He would brag about not going for...

For trails and roads, I would put our version of cement up against the Chinese version any day. While the PRC pace is impressive, the quality is not. Also they have a disposable, fractionally-waged workforce. They use to have a seemingly endless money supply but I guess somebody finally picked...

I was on the fence about that one.

For the youngsters or for those who don't know what they're seeing here, this is when the wrecking ball stopped to get a beer and some shutterbug near lower State Street took a snapshot from their soot laden office window. The actual destruction was so much more vast. This is another answer to...

True. A sense of history is important but it shouldn’t cripple us. I am wondering when the angrily swung pendulum will get unstuck from the No Action At All wall and swing back toward the Get Shit Done side.

Dammit! You're right! It would have had to go another 25 feet lower. Talk about a flood liability... the soil there is as porous as the Red Sox infield against Toronto!