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Blog, Cities & Urban Life
City Porn
10.29.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsCity porn. New term I’m coining. What is it? Pictures of cities that are so mouth wateringly amazing, so mindblowingly dramatic, that they are down right pornographic. (attn: If you came here expecting this news story I’m sorry I’ve misled you.) What caused me to think of this new way of objectifying urbanity? This: From [...]
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Blog, Boston, Cities & Urban Life
A new role for the BRA?
I think we need to take a new look at how Boston and how the many neighborhoods work together and develop. As it is now it seems that the process is very confrontational: A developer comes in and wants to build something big and the local citizens flip out and scream until they get what [...]
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Blog, Cities & Urban Life
The 21st Century City: The Super-County Follow-up
A year ago I posted an idea for something I called a Super-County, a new governmental level that would control metropolitan regions, combining multiple agencies from different counties and states into a single agency which would cut out many levels of beaurocracy and make it much easier for regions to deal with growth, education, traffic, [...]
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Blog, Cities & Urban Life
Future Visions
Here is how I see American cities at the middle of the 21st century: Because of high energy costs, living on large lots in the exurbs will no longer be affordable to the middle class. New policies will go into affect that support infill development in older city centers. As the populations of central cities [...]
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