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I mean, I can just as easily scroll through google scholar and find twice as many studies that find the opposite of the ones you've linked. And Shelterforce is just as much a "thinktank" as the ones you disagree with. What are the loopholes and how would you close them? Would you really...

Do you have anything to support your position on rent control? Every report from modern economists I've read is very against the idea - it's been tried and does not/is not working.

It only goes eastbound until north station, and then it does go north west. Is that the section you're talking about? (the new extensions?)

Hot take: The garage was/is far more architecturally interesting than anything going up around here - including One Congress. Terrible urbanism though. For the best that it's going.

It's over in Madison Park Village https://www.google.com/maps/@42.332471,-71.084598,3a,60y,79.04h,95.13t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXwA-0Z-6qacU0NL-rf_dPg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?hl=en&authuser=0

I hate it too. But I mean, there were many renderings of this turd as is before it started construction. It went through a complete redesign, but there wasn't some bait-and switch that no one saw. At the time, this forum was surprisingly positive about it...

Two thoughts. This is SO much better than the July submission which was a hodgepodge of random materials and timid "design" moves that looked completely out of place next to both the old Landmark and new labs at the back. The fenestration and materials relate much better, the base is more...

Ok, now that we've fully derailed here, maybe back to the mayoral race... Has anyone heard/seen Wu or AEG's stance on the Harbor Plan? Could that be revived in any way if the mayor supported it?

Good. It is.

Is there a way to mute certain sections of the forums (not just individual threads)? No disrespect meant at all, but I just don't care about developments in Portland Maine. Would be cool to be able to filter that out if possible.

100% are reporting in now. Wu and George are going to the final.

What are you looking at?? She's in 3rd according to that site:

Yeah, what's peoples' general stance on this? I know the BPDA has a muddled history and corruption problems, but does it need full abolishment? Or would some reforms work better? Is Wu's replacement council much different?

Man, it'd be wonderful if people who use that word so much knew what it actually meant...

Wu is the only candidate to support rent control, and there's no way it'd get implemented anyway with it banned at the state level - Baker is starkly against it.

Yes. The UMass Amherst Design Building was one of if not the first one 4 years ago. Fire resistance has been substantially studied and these structures are as safe if not more so than typical stick built/steel frame ones. The dense wood has a very predictable char rate that helps insulate and...

It's open now: https://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2021/09/hub-hall-opens-at-hub-on-causeway-in.html

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The facade diagram for that thing is sort of neat. Also surprise, it's a vertical rainbow inside. I actually really really dislike the colors of the panels they chose (I don't care what tree-form they call it, it's still an ugly color palette. Orange can stay, the rest don't work). And the...

Not sure if anyone else reads Universal Hub (great blog style, more casual local news posts by one guy). But this post from today about residents in West Roxbury suing to block a neighbor from adding onto his house had me absolutely furious. I highly recommend giving the segment of the hearing...