Amazing shit other cities get that Boston doesn't

Perhaps a much more pronounced Capitalism/Socialism hybrid is the future (or is it already the present?) Enough capitalism to stimulate innovation and personal motivation and enough socialism to keep everyone, well, at least alive with food, housing, and medical access. Surely capitalism has done more to further human evolution than any other economic system ever. But ya can't invent Internet 3.0 if you're starving in a cardboard box on top of a subway grate. If the way out of whack 1%/99% dynamic can't be brought to a more reasonable balance Blade Runner here we come.
 
Because Boston has Allston and Mission Hill, duh.
 
Philadelphia has several Bostons worth of practically abandoned neighborhoods where students can live, the rent, commutes, and angry neighbors in Allston and Mission Hill can't be all that fun, and students are shelling out top dollar for luxury dorms in Boston, so I don't quite buy those excuses.
 
Actually, Allston and Mission Hill are highly desirable student ghettos. I don't think that the the acres of Philly's derelict row houses would be so much, at least without a large investment.
 
czsz said:
West Philadelphia is getting a 36-story private dorm for students from multiple universities. Tell me again why there aren't a thicket of these in Boston?

http://www.ctbuh.org/News/GlobalTal...udent-High-rise-Approved-in-Philadelphia.aspx

http://blogs.wsj.com/developments/2013/02/05/student-skyscraper-planned-in-philadelphia/
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Logic-challenged activists who scream for more on campus housing at the very same time they scream against the added density. No different than stepping on the gas and brake pedals at the same time.
 
Not amazing, per se, but interesting.

The City of New York is holding a competition to come up with new ideas for phone booths.

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Up for a Vote, the Pay Phone of the Future
By DAVID W. DUNLAP, NEW YORK TIMES

Meanwhile, in other voting news on Wednesday, a sensuous wraparound booth and a slender concave kiosk were leading a popularity contest on Facebook, the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge, sponsored by the Bloomberg administration.

The public has been asked to vote for one of six finalists in a contest meant to encourage new thinking about the 11,000 pay phone sites in New York. Coin-operated landlines seem increasingly obsolete. Franchises under which private companies install, maintain and operate public phones expire on Oct. 15, 2014. That gives city officials a chance to figure out what features they will want to see in the pay phones of the future.

Out of about 125 submissions to the design contest, the city winnowed the field last week to six entries in five categories. (There was a tie in one.) A sixth category — popular choice — will be determined by the Facebook vote, which will close Thursday at 5 p.m. ...
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They also came up with a design for more attractive scaffolding but no one actually made any.
 
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