^^“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
–Woodrow Wilson 1913.
If you would dare appeal to the overlords, "i want some more sir... i want more (MT in my soup)...."
They will hate you, they will condemn you, vacate all decorum, and tell you they hate you....... They'll throw you in the Charles to keep the truth from coming to light.
When you think like a turd, ignore good urbanism, act out like a turd, and build like a turd...... eventually people may run off the reservation, and call you turd: A world-class city taken down a few rungs by means of too many cheap, ugly buildings, endless, 'safe, (ugly) politically unoffensive architecture' and low a/r garbage... And, for whatever reason, an large lunatic element keep threatening our politicians that it will be the end of their careers, unless we keep building them.
When you have too many turds, building so much as 1 more, is almost tragic. ....We've been doing a lot better on 4-10 story fill in recent years. it's fantastic. And i like the Seaport very much. i joined the chorus who knew Avalon Nashua St would turn out turned out as great as it did.
But these few contentious parcels where we can do good urbanism combined with very tall. i wish they'd left the TD office a 530' box. They should built the resident tower to 659' at the rooftip (as originally planned). Good architecture at a regional transit hub in the Downtown core of a city with so gravely serious challenges ahead.
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