Bright Solutions from the Dark Age of Urban Planning

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How the Prudential Center came to be – Bright Solutions from the Dark Age of Urban Planning:

Prudential, pursuing a course of corporate decentralization in the 1950s, settled on Boston as the location for its New England Regional headquarters, with plans for a signature tower. This was a bolder move than you’d expect, as Rubin’s engrossing account of the political and business climate in mid-20th-century Boston illustrates. At the time the tallest building in New England was in Hartford.

Boston - 1999

Radical Cartography – Boston College Town

Radical Cartography - Boston College Town

Boston is certainly a college town, but most maps show only the smallest version of the university campus – the quad, major buildings, maybe some dorms. Using municipal property databases, I made a campus map that shows land owned by the thirty-two colleges and universities in the inner Boston area, including land that is leased for non-university uses. Where possible, I also included land that is owned by school-controlled holding companies.

Radical Cartography – Boston College Town.