Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] In the two posts so far we’ve seen that the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, birthed in a flash of public spirit, was abandoned on the doorstep of a conservancy: When the Big Dig was in full swing, it easily [...]
By:David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] Yesterday’s post on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway chronicled its midwifery by cardinals on behalf of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, who despite their collective vision neglected to assure its funding, and the cost of raising that charming little offspring are playing out now, as documented [...]
By:David A. Smith Everybody likes parks. Kids like parks: Boston’s Greenway Everybody likes to look at parks, use them, and have them always available for free. Greenway, from above Actually, let’s clarify that: everybody likes clean and safe parks. The Greenway, October, 2011, when Occupy Boston was holding forth [...]
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.] The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers, Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes, cigarette ends Or other testimony of summer nights. The nymphs are departed. – The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot As we saw yesterday, via a Boston Globe [...]
By: David A. Smith [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? – The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot Yesterday’s post on right-sizing cities whose economies have structural shrunk established, via a Boston Globe article, that a city whose population is permanently [...]
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