Amazing shit other cities get that Boston doesn't

[czsz]

I'll start us off with this amazing bike parking facility slated to replace a real (car) parking lot in Philadelphia:

http://inhabitat.com/2010/05/27/philadelphia-parking-lot-transformed-into-cycling-oasis/

Pwns the shit out of the Filene's sheep farm.

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

Acres of prime developable land!

Detroit

 

[Ron Newman]

The Philly idea is awesome, but:

Unfortunately, this was a totally hypothetical design competition and at this time there are not plans for this facility to be built ? but wouldn?t it be cool?

 

[czsz]

Still beats most of Boston's proposals (again: see Filene's sheep meadow)

Van: Thanks for reminding us all how much Boston needs more open space. Every city could use the light and air enjoyed by bucolic Detroit.

 

[unterbau]

big music festivals

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

Van: Thanks for reminding us all how much Boston needs more open space. Every city could use the light and air enjoyed by bucolic Detroit.

Thank GOD for the Greenway then?

 

[Ron Newman]

big music festivals

True - Lowell and New Bedford have Boston solidly beat in this category.

 

[bdurden]

Still beats most of Boston's proposals (again: see Filene's sheep meadow)

Van: Thanks for reminding us all how much Boston needs more open space. Every city could use the light and air enjoyed by bucolic Detroit.

Here's an amazing concept that was actually built:

Part of this development was an extension of their world class mall:

Greenway, eat your heart out.

 

[czsz]

Thank GOD for the Greenway then?

More like the G_Dway!

bduren: what/where is that!?

 

[kennedy]

It's in Miami (Beach?).

 

[bdurden]

More like the G_Dway!

bduren: what/where is that!?

It's the extension of the Lincoln Road Mall, South Beach, by Herzog:

http://www.1111lincolnroad.com/

It may be an unfair comparison to the Greenway, but it's what Boston should be striving for--Chiofaro anyone?

NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/business/02parking.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=lincoln road garage&st=cse

 

[kennedy]

My bad, South Beach. Lincoln Road Mall didn't seem like a whole lot when I was there, but I may or may not have been in the "good" section. We went past an obsolete fountain, and a bunch of older stores, and a parking lot.

This, of course, makes it seem like a wonderland. Props to Herzog & de Meuron. Why don't developers in Boston ever hire world-class architects? Chiofaro, come on!

 

[KentXie]

Heavy rail expansion.

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

Heavy rail expansion.

Yeah but how many other cities have that? New York? Boston did all that before it was cool.

 

[bdurden]

Aren't DC, Miami, and LA expanding their heavy rail systems?

 

[bdurden]

My bad, South Beach. Lincoln Road Mall didn't seem like a whole lot when I was there, but I may or may not have been in the "good" section. We went past an obsolete fountain, and a bunch of older stores, and a parking lot.

This, of course, makes it seem like a wonderland. Props to Herzog & de Meuron. Why don't developers in Boston ever hire world-class architects? Chiofaro, come on!

It's one of the great urban spaces in America.

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

Aren't DC, Miami, and LA expanding their heavy rail systems?

They've all been planing them for ages but so far no shovels have been in the ground.

 

[jass]

They've all been planing them for ages but so far no shovels have been in the ground.

Completely wrong.

Both Miami and DC are well under way.

DC:

Miami progress looks similar to the first DC photo.

 

[Beton Brut]

Speaking of Miami, big spread in ArchRecord this month.

If not in the Fenway, why not something with this kind of energy on this parking lot?

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

I'm happy to be wrong about that.