KunstlerCast #87: Boston
KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy
English - November 05, 2009 18:10 - 24 minutes - 33 MB - ★★★★★ - 380 ratingsPlaces & Travel Society & Culture History city economy planning politics architecture cities kunstler sociology suburb urban Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
James Howard Kunstler thinks Boston is one of the few healthy major cities left in the U.S. He says gentrification has been a good thing for the city. He is disappointed with the outcome of Boston's "big dig" project, though. When the city finally placed a major elevated expressway underground, Boston squandered a great opportunity to repair the street-and-block fabric that the highway had previously disrupted. Instead, so-called environmentalists succeeded in advocating for a half-assed, nebulous "green space." On the subject of ugly architecture, Kunstler says the MIT area in nearby Cambridge is the ugliest academic neighborhood in America. The devil could not have designed a worse campus.
Note: Curse word at 15:47 mins.
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