Tuesday, February 16, 2010



http://www.shelterforce.org/article/1856/getting_from_here_to_there/

Here's an interesting look at how transit, land use and community development goals can be made compatible.

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  1. joseFebruary 20, 2010 at 12:27 PM

    “Somerville, one of the most densely populated cities in the country.”

    Really, I never even heard of the place. It sounds like the name of Superman’s hometown.

    “As in Somerville, a coalition of CDCs and transit activists from the Dorchester,”

    After reading the article I was left wondering why it wasn’t a standard practice by government agencies to work together, and also local neighborhood groups. Maybe I miss the point on this article but I thought that government agencies do work together. for example, the MPO. this organization was establish for other government agencies to work together on development of the transportations system. Well, its suppose to. What I recently learned its suppose to “on paper” with a board of directors but in the real world, it doesn’t.
    thinking a little bit more
    The more I learn in this class the more I see that government agencies, local groups and concern citizens don’t really get together until there is a problem. I thought it was standard practice to do a feasibility study before anything else.

    “LeBlanc and his colleagues at SCC knew what had happened when a third subway, the Red Line, was extended to West Somerville in the 1980s. Within two decades, virtually the entire working-class population that had lived in that part of the city for generations disappeared. They were replaced by a wave of wealthier professionals drawn to the easy transit access into Boston.”

    I can see how the rail line had a hand in the changing of the neighborhood. This article also mention the changes with the half-mile that you also mention in class. But I have to wonder, did anybody stop to think that the neighborhood has a natural process of change? Maybe the rail line help the neighborhood change faster.

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