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I keep getting stuck on how this proposal is essentially a 2020s reissue of the Church Park Apartments across the street on Mass Ave. The concrete has been swapped out for precast panels, and this is 500’ long vs 750’ long, but in massing and presence I believe they will have a similar...

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I'd like to nominate my personal favorite, and one of the most stately Romanesque Revival buildings out there, The Grain Exchange. And also the Berkeley Building/Old John Hancock. Few buildings exude "Boston" more than this one, and knowing how to decode the weather beacon is one of the great...

Early contender for an ArchBoston 2021 Worst Completed Project award.

Some interesting additional details about 1463-1469 Dorchester Avenue in UniveralHub: https://www.universalhub.com/2021/29-unit-affordable-apartment-building-approved All 29 units are between 400 and 450 sq feet, as the building is partaking in the city's 2 year Compact Living Pilot. Also...

I believe you’re correct that he can line item veto just this section, but at that point it is sent back to the legislature and since we’ve just entered a new legislative session the bill would have to be refiled to be considered again.

I tweeted about it last week, mainly because I'm still trying to figure out what constitutes a "reasonably sized district". Most of the proposal is encapsulated in this paragraph of H.5250: If a "reasonably sized district" is in fact reasonably sized, MA will have managed to stealthily pass a...

You're of course right that urban highways add value and are likely necessary for reverse commuters. Zooming out further, one could point out that the job sprawl you're describing is yet another negative externality of these highways, but I digress...

Couldn’t love this more @JumboBuc. Nothing get’s me excited like an extremely straightforward market-based solution which balances fixing the underlying problem and fairness to existing stakeholders. So much better than City Council’s proposals of picking winners and losers on a neighborhood...

PNF: https://bpda.app.box.com/s/g3gzxlu637sxspp67rk54338tqqvja67 Upon a quick glance, doesn't seem like any big differences from the LOI. Excited for this much affordable housing to come online right here.

Wu seems better on transit than on housing in my opinion, but her campaign website at least pays lip service to the need for more housing construction: (Bolding mine). Overall, her focus seems to be on renter protections and capital-A Affordable housing, but she's always seemed to understand...

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I’m really excited for this one. Nice materials and I think it’s going to give Brookline Ave a considerably more dramatic canyon effect.

@dshoost88, that’s a great illustration that Cambridge is doing more than neighboring communities to build housing. But that doesn’t really respond to the point I was making. If Cambridge had had a growth rate even higher over the last 9 years, would we say the city is off the hook and doesn’t...

Seems like funny logic. More needs to be happening at higher levels government, sure, but that shouldn’t absolve smaller actors of trying to do the most that they can (especially since I don’t believe density must be seen as a burden, but that’s a separate argument). If I were a planner with...

Why would these hypothetical taller buildings need to be office space? This project brings 2,400 units of housing online, which is nothing to sneeze at. But it also sits directly on two rapid transit lines and likely has more jobs within walking distance than almost anywhere else in New...

Thanks @JS38! For someone who is familiar with the history of Boston's infill but not an expert, the TL;DW takeaways for me were the explanation of why the Seaport laid essentially empty for so long and why the Kennedy presidential library is located where it is. Essentially, the intended...

I mean if you can only have one, sure, but seems like a false choice. People will continue to walk on Seaport Boulevard, and if they are headed north it would be great to be placed directly on the harbor walk without having to double back. I guess I’ve always thought the same about the southern...

They ought to have the newly-constructed harborwalk step up to meet the Evelyn Moakley Bridge. Would make for a much better pedestrian experience.

I'm failing to find any good discussion on them with some cursory googling, but one generalized form of successful plazas are the Plaza de Armas. Across the Latin American world, many cities are centered on a historical Plaza de Armas, which are human scale (some run a bit large), surrounded by...