tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7071605392067240587.post5692925104715070346..comments2023-05-19T11:15:20.901-04:00Comments on picture/day: Battery emptyCaThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15448120621150624576noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7071605392067240587.post-13756304320406210122011-11-10T10:41:18.128-05:002011-11-10T10:41:18.128-05:00thanks! that sure is interesting... !!
i also dont...thanks! that sure is interesting... !!<br />i also dont like government center and that awful city hall... perhaps i should show its ugliness here once, but so far i have never felt the urge to photograph it! :)CaThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15448120621150624576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7071605392067240587.post-36142627106207013482011-11-10T06:30:47.085-05:002011-11-10T06:30:47.085-05:00Hi, I just stumbled onto your blog! This photo dep...Hi, I just stumbled onto your blog! This photo depicts the famous/infamous "Last Tenement," one of the few remaining buildings of Boston's West End neighborhood. After WWII, cities across the US and Europe tried to "modernize" via what was called Urban Renewal, which often meant leveling older neighborhoods perceived as dirty and backwards and replacing them with Le Corbusier/Walter Gropius-inspired Modernist buildings and "towers in the park"-style residences spread far apart from one another and surrounded by grass lawns and parking lots.<br /><br />The destruction of the West End, one of Boston's oldest neighborhoods, was an egregious example of Urban Renewal in Boston -- in fact, many of the buildings in nearby Government Center (where Scollay Square was destroyed to make way for the awfulness there now) were designed by Gropius himself. Pretty much everything in this centuries-old neighborhood was destroyed in the 1950s and '60s to make way for the Corbusier-style "towers in the park" of Charles River Park and other developments nearby. <br /><br />The Last Tenement was left standing in the West End for reasons that I do not fully understand, and it has since been protected to remain as a testament to the community that the bureaucrats, self-styled philosopher-architects and city planners decided to demolish 50+ years ago.<br /><br />Hope that helps!<br /><br />Some additional info if you're interested:<br /><br />-Wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_End,_Boston<br /><br />-Breathtaking photo narrative of the West End by a local architect and professor: http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/showthread.php?10814-Medieval-Boston-(photos-and-commentary)<br /><br />-West End Museum (has a photos page of what the West End used to look like): http://thewestendmuseum.org/<br /><br />-Last Tenement exhibition at the West End Museum (there was also an accompanying book written that can be bought on Amazon): http://thewestendmuseum.org/last_tenement.html<br /><br />-A site that speculates about why The Last Tenement may have been spared: http://iwalkedaudiotours.com/2011/04/iwalked-boston’s-last-tenement/Bostoniannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7071605392067240587.post-59836948494333837782011-11-07T05:57:41.972-05:002011-11-07T05:57:41.972-05:00I don't understand, either, drops means "...I don't understand, either, drops means "druppels" and "drankje" in dutch? So I don't get the point.biebkriebelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01539958495933835606noreply@blogger.com