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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
And hello there to you. Not a whole lot of activity on these here internets lately. I know. A light blogging regimen is the sign of a guy with a bunch of work that actually pays. But who needs rent … Continue reading
I spent most of yesterday in the BPL, dodging sleepy homeless people and researching a BoMag piece on Boylston Street‘s weird place in the city’s architectural bureaucracy. Half of it is part of the Back Bay Architectural District, and subject … Continue reading
