Every once in a while some teen-lit writer resurrects the story about the Girl Who Wasn’t There, a pathetic young waif who is so neglected and ignored that she ceases to be visible. While Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway is still in view, as far as I know, there are signs that it’s becoming a bit [...]
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Oh dearie me! The YMCA of Greater Boston has announced that it will not build a a $70 million community center on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway near the North End. In short, a nonexistent building will continue to not exist on the Greenway. The YMCA’s center will now join the august company of the [...]
Some works of art transform the landscape for the ages: the pyramids at Giza, the pre-Columbian causeways and earthworks in the Bolivian Amazon; Stonehenge. Other landscape art is ephemeral: Andy Goldsworthy’s natural constructions vanish with the wind and the rain; the Big Hammock that graced the Rose Kennedy Greenway has disappeared along with lazy summer [...]
Thank goodness there are still some local newspapers in this hemisphere. Otherwise, how would you ever find out that the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is planning to add 4.5 MILES to the 2.5-mile Neponset River Trail? Here’s what the Quincy’s Patriot Ledger newspaper had to say about it, and two walking tours [...]
What would Boston look like if the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway landscape had been created with landscape urbanism in mind by designers who think “landscape replaces architecture as the basic building block of contemporary urbanism?” The current issue of ArchitectureBoston (No space! It’s more efficient and modern and unreadable that way.) asks that question in a [...]
Come to the Greenway, and buy more stuff! Well, the proposed Boston Public Market won’t be on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway – it’ll be next to it. The Boston Globe reports that the state has committed up to $10 million of state funding to redevelop a vacant stripey building at the corner of Hanover [...]
Oh dearie me! The Rose Ftizgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy will get 25% less money from the state next year, leaving it with a budget of just $4.4 million to maintain the Greenway. Have I mentioned that the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is getting less than $80 million this year to maintain all its [...]
Despite the fact that the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway is ridiculously underfunded (see today’s story in the Boston Globe about the state slashing its funding by 25 percent), there’s still reason to celebrate what we do have. Tomorrow, the Greenway Conservancy is throwing a daylong party to celebrate Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy’s birthday and the theme [...]
On Monday, The Boston Globe has published yet another editorial about how Boston needs to develop more business along the Rose Kennedy Greenway, in part by allowing taller buildings along the Greenway. The author rightly calls for the city to heal the scars left by the Central Artery, to reunite communities torn apart by decades [...]
