Is Paris A Model For Boston?

The Boston Globe offers the first in a series of articles about how U.S. cities can learn from urban design abroad.

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March 16, 2002, 10:00 AM PST

"A historic design question faces Boston today. What should we do with the 30 acres of land that now hunker down in the dark shadow of the Central Artery? When the artery comes down in 2004, we'll receive a remarkable gift of real estate, a swath of land a mile and a quarter long and about as wide as Paris's famous Champs-Elysees, slicing through Boston's downtown. What should it become?"

Thanks to Congress on the New Urbanism Listserv

FULL STORY: A Paris match?

Tuesday, March 12, 2002 in The Boston Globe

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