I detest the appearance of Boston’s City Hall as much as the next person. It’s a hideous building that looks like a low-budget parking garage, in the midst of a plaza that seems ideally designed to be vacant with trash blowing through. That said, though, Mayor Menino’s plan to move City Hall to the South [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Financial meltdown silver lining: Boston City Hall to stay put
December 31, 2008When David Brooks and I agree…
December 12, 2008…the issue probably has some merit Since that occurs rather rarely. But he’s correct (not just “right”) when he says in “This Old House”:
“If you asked people in that age of go-go suburbia what they wanted in their new housing developments, they often said they wanted a golf course. But the culture has [...]
Walking isn’t some kind of optional hobby
December 10, 2008You’d never know it by the way suburban communities treat sidewalk and crosswalk maintenance, but there are actually a lot of people who need to walk places. Why don’t our local governments understand this?
Kids walk to school – not everyone has bus service or an available parent to chauffeur them. People walk to nearby stores, [...]
Downtown Crossing Reconsidered
December 7, 2008Interesting piece in the Boston Globe magazine today on whether Downtown Crossing will finally achieve its promise. I agree with the premise that attracting pepole to live in the district
“may just be the best hope to revive Downtown Crossing and transform it from merely a place where shoppers shop and workers work into a place [...]
Saxonville Riverview Plaza update
December 4, 2008Sorry for the lengthy time between posts, but the demise of my home computer has put a lot of my blogging time into setting up my replacement computer! However, I would like to belatedly report on the first Planning Board public hearing on this project last month. All the audience members who spoke, said they [...]
