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As a followup to the image illustrating yesterday’s post, I’ve mapped Southwest Expressway clearance from Roxbury Crossing down to Williams Street (the Doyle’s block outside Forest Hills) in Jamaica Plain. The maps are 1924 and 1931 Bromley atlases from the BPL, … Continue reading
My latest for the Globe tackles a redevelopment project 50 years in the making — the rebuilding of Jackson Square, along the JP/Roxbury line. The square was cleared a half-century ago to make way for the Southwest Expressway. The doomed Expressway … Continue reading
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As an addendum to that last post, here’s a few posi-tastic architectural renderings of the Inner Belt and Southwest Expressway, lifted from a 1965 report written for Mass. DPW. Note that in this scheme, the highway would run below-grade through the … Continue reading
Last night I caught Fred Salvucci talking about 1960′s-era highway-building projects at MIT. These highways pop up in my Globe columns all the time, because the roads that got built, and the ones that didn’t, still shape Boston-area land use, 40 … Continue reading
My latest for the Globe looks at an effort to reassemble the coalition that sank the Inner Belt and the Southwest Expressway. Forty years ago, activists from Somerville to Hyde Park crossed neighborhood boundaries to stop highway construction; now, they’re coming … Continue reading
Nice job by the Herald today, pairing this column about Mitt Romney’s embarrassing efforts to run for Class President of Michigan Republicans with a banner ad from a Detroit-based car company Romney wanted to bankrupt.
My latest op-ed for the Globe looks at crumbling roadways around the region — the McGrath Highway, the Longfellow Bridge, Storrow Drive and the Bowker Overpass — as opportunities for reorienting infrastructure’s relationship with the city, and correcting mistakes from the 1950′s … Continue reading
Here’s the flip side to that New York Times Co. paywall data from yesterday. It’s the share of paid circulation revenue to total revenue for the two Times Co. newspaper groups dominated by the Times and the Globe. That is all.
Wonder why the New York Times Co. is working so hard to monetize its web traffic? Have a look at this chart, updated with data from the Times Co.’s fourth quarter earnings. I’ve plotted gains and losses on Times revenue … Continue reading
