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You have to be pretty militantly anti-religious to rebrand the nation's first YWCA into "YW" to expunge any potential trace of its (now apparently evil) founding mission. I guess they did that in 2012 - hadn't realized. You have to be quite the enormous di** to do that - it just feels petty...

I just checked Archboston after 2 days' absence. The amount of new approvals, announcements of projects, renders, etc., is mind-blowing. The Wired New York forum doesn't see that many new projects arise in a month (or much, much more some times). The same thing happened two days prior, when...

Couldn't find any more suitable thread - mods, feel free to move this to an existing thread if there's one you feel is appropriate. See here for description of methodology: http://www.movoto.com/blog/top-ten/10-most-exciting-cities/

Fluff. A somewhat under-detailed, overly positive article on the waterfront, IMO. That's not to disparage the strides that have been made. However, it is ludicrous to claim that the BRA has done such a bang-up job with the waterfront that it will "exorcise [the] ghosts" of the West End /...

Mods, feel free to take this down if it's too out there, but I couldn't resist when I saw this article:

I cringed as I read this, thinking about the way the geniuses at the BRA have their heads in the 1950s-80s and can't seem to imagine any new development without massive big box stores, or with small-footprint stores (cases in point being the entire Seaport, the Downtown Crossing developments...

Not entirely sure what that refers to. Moving away from the specifics of that claim and speaking a bit more broadly, spend some time living abroad and American voters may come to seem quite intelligent. Literacy tests have been tried before. They were a hallmark of Jim Crow. The "smartest"...

Not sure if this goes under New Development, since one of them is a nomadic museum -- but it's as much a new development as the new retail thread... Incidentally, it seems ironic that there should be a design museum and an architecture museum (sponsored by the Boston Society of Architects)...

some allege that NIMBYism is at fault for italy's economic stagnation. ... should we take heed yet? (personal opinion: YES.) ?Nimbyism? blamed for Italy?s woes By Guy Dinmore in Rome Published: February 28 2008 13:34 | Last updated: February 28 2008 13:34 Italy?s Nimby syndrome is under...