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Will Boston reach this point?
Will Boston reach this point?
Bostonography's doing their collaborative neighborhood mapping exercise again, take a look and draw some neighborhoods:
http://bostonography.com/hoods/
Boston is famous for many things: revolutionary history, colonial architecture, educational institutions, sports fanaticism. But as more Americans return to cities seeking a more urban lifestyle than the suburbs offer, Boston is gaining fame for another of its unique characteristics: its old-world urbanism. For an American city, Boston is compact, dense, and walkable. These qualities make Boston feel like both a big city and a small city at the same time.
But how big is Boston, actually? Is Boston really more akin to the size and density of a European city, or is it just slightly smaller than its massive American siblings? As it turns out, Boston's size may surprise you. Boston is of course far smaller and more densely populated than Los Angeles -- but it's also smaller and denser than Amsterdam. Paris, on the other hand, is only a few square miles smaller but packs in a million and a half more people.
In order to give our readers a more intuitive sense of these differences, we drew an outline of Boston's city limits using a handy tool called MAPfrappe. This tool allows us to move our outline around the map, recalculating the outline's size and shape to account for the map's 2D Mercator Projection distortions, allowing accurate size comparisons no matter what latitude or longitude we drag it to.
Just in 5 minutes I saw one guy run into the middle to take a picture of the graffiti. A car went around the circle 4 times, and another one went around 2 times with a camera sticking out the window. Then the police showed up and covered it up with a van. Wild times...
Why is this in the Copley Place thread??I couldn't agree more with this comment
I so tired of Boston mayors with delusions who think they can block people from opening businesses because of their social views.
Sorry, Marty. You that's illegal and if you try it, you'll end up costing taxpayers big dollars in the resulting fines/lawsuits.
Don't be ignorant.
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http://www.boston.com/news/politics...nYkkPOmMRnXL/story.html?p1=feature_stack_1_hp
The Vivian Li story is shocking, in my opinion. Lots more to be said, no doubt. She seemed to be a major obstructionist to development in the Seaport and along the Waterfront but now that she's leaving I can't help but have mixed emotions.
A lot of "long-timers" who care/cared about the city are leaving and/or dying. I don't think we'll see the same level of interest from residents / organizations over the coming years. Yes, that might be a good thing, but something to recognize and respect, regardless.