This piece had a few different lives. I thought about talking about Boston being a city of contradictions (big on transit but very car friendly, a conservative/racist history despite being extremely progressive, etc) but I decided that I would rather just write an ode. Talk about what I loved in a city I've grown to see as a second city of sorts.
Great photographs! I love your “thinking about cities” niche.
This piece had a few different lives. I thought about talking about Boston being a city of contradictions (big on transit but very car friendly, a conservative/racist history despite being extremely progressive, etc) but I decided that I would rather just write an ode. Talk about what I loved in a city I've grown to see as a second city of sorts.
I’ve been doing a Jordan Hall deep dive and came across this. It might be up your alley, although I confess to only skimming it.
https://www.edge.org/conversation/geoffrey_west-why-cities-keep-growing-corporations-and-people-always-die-and-life-gets