odurandina: Big corporation and government-supported Academia for big-brain, research faculties and a hyper-competitive, international student body with priorities other than urbanity: what more can we expect? Harvard Sq. is increasingly another example. And Harvard's Allston campuses? Complex urban fabric, human scale, unique retail, and soaring imagination must give way to funding sources, development costs, and a rush toward wholesale redevelopment when the money becomes available. The very definition of modern office park.
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Oudurandina -- I don't know why we keep repeating this litany about density as if Manhattan was the be-all and end-all [a to Omega?] of city designGranted, Cambridge's density is about the same as SF at about 18k/mile.
Manhattan's neighborhoods are 3.5~4.5X the density of Cambridge.
Manhattan is 4.0 X the density of Cambridge.
odurandina: Big corporation and government-supported Academia for big-brain, research faculties and a hyper-competitive, international student body with priorities other than urbanity: what more can we expect? Harvard Sq. is increasingly another example. And Harvard's Allston campuses? Complex urban fabric, human scale, unique retail, and soaring imagination must give way to funding sources, development costs, and a rush toward wholesale redevelopment when the money becomes available. The very definition of modern office park.