That was the headline on a MetroWest Daily News article Friday, which I’ll have to read in the library this week (I keep forgetting the McAuliffe branch isn’t open Saturdays during the summer. I can’t find the article online and I didn’t by that day’s paper.) But the brief bit I saw noted that revitalization [...]
Archive for August, 2007
‘Unlocking Downtown’s Potential’
August 26, 2007The rebirth of Union Square, thanks to some specialization
August 19, 2007Twenty or 30 years ago, “you took your life in your hands” going to the park in Manhattan’s Union Square, city historian and author Joyce Mendelsohn told the New York Times. It was a magnet for drug use and prostitution; “Any middle-class people who lived in the neighborhood didn’t feel comfortable using the park.”
And today? [...]
Bridges should be beautiful as well as safe
August 18, 2007One of the things I missed when I moved to the Boston area was bridges that add drama to the urban vista.
Bridges into, out of and through New York City may be choked with horrible traffic jams, but many of them are beautiful as well as functional. Not only the well-known like the Brooklyn [...]
What’s right about Boston’s Esplanade
August 12, 2007My husband & I went to the free Beach Boys outdoor concert last night at the Hatch Shell along the Charles River. Since the weekend train schedules are so pathetic ( we wanted to go in for dinner and the concert. Saturday commuter rail either arrives in town at 4:22, a bit early for dinner, or 7:27, too [...]
‘Children of the suburbs … want walkable communities’
August 3, 2007Young professionals want “walkable, dense communities with brick buildings, trendy restaurants and no big-box stores, said Gene Krebs, state director of Greater Ohio, a Columbus-based organization dedicated to better land use in the state,” Scripps Howard News Service reports.
“The children of the suburbs have rejected the suburbs,” Krebs said. “They find the suburbs repellent and [...]
How can America allow more than 1 in 10 bridges to be "structurally deficient"??
August 2, 2007“Thirteen percent of bridges in the United States share the same ’structurally deficient’ rating as the bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis,” ABC News reports, and more than 1 and 4 are “in need of repair or do not meet the highest safety standards.” We boast of being the world’s most powerful nation, the world’s wealthiest [...]
