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I really, really, really wish Boston could at least attempt to encourage having smaller building footprints in areas where major redevelopment is possible. The sizes here aren’t the worst, but still have the potential to exert an imposing presence that overwhelms the street experience and could produce a decidedly anti-urbanistic feel.
The city actually encourages developers to build as wide as humanly possible and then makes them hilariously “break up the massing” through facade colors, as if that fools anyone.I really, really, really wish Boston could at least attempt to encourage having smaller building footprints in areas where major redevelopment is possible. The sizes here aren’t the worst, but still have the potential to exert an imposing presence that overwhelms the street experience and could produce a decidedly anti-urbanistic feel.
We live in an era where only the image of something matters. As long as the keywords are there, the substance matters not.The city actually encourages developers to build as wide as humanly possible and then makes them hilariously “break up the massing” through facade colors, as if that fools anyone.
This type of superblock development is happening all too much in Everett as well as Boston, as discussed elsewhere on aB. The need for a street grid is important for creating or reinforcing an urban neighborhood. Instead we have these superblock landscrapers sprawling on the urban fabric.I really, really, really wish Boston could at least attempt to encourage having smaller building footprints in areas where major redevelopment is possible. The sizes here aren’t the worst, but still have the potential to exert an imposing presence that overwhelms the street experience and could produce a decidedly anti-urbanistic feel.