Today’s journey in book-writing: re-visiting Ed Logue, urban-renewal mastermind who was responsible for gutting New Haven and Boston.
Here’s one of his projects: Boston’s Government Center.
*Only* the entire neighborhood of Scollay Square was wiped out... for this.
I hated the experience of this urban gash as a resident of Boston in the late 90s / early 2000s. (Jane agreed: “I thought they were awful,” she says of his plans. “And I thought he was a very destructive man.”*)
But, alas, brutalist architecture has since grown on me.
Can a building be problematic and admired, at once?
*Source: Jane Jacobs’s Street Smarts by Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, Sept. 19, 2016
