This tweet is only a tribute to the very specific supergraphics font that appeared in Harvard Square in the 1970s.
1. Coolidge Bank & Trust, 104 Mt. Auburn St., now an office bldg (architect: PARD TEAM)
2. The Garage, 36 JFK St., soon to be renovated (orig. architect unknown)
@A_W_Gordon Sounds like The Medium Place of public space. I haven’t been yet but am interested to see how it feels as civic space. Weather it has the commercial vibes of The Oculus - a space that aimed for greatness but landed as a temple to capitalism
A staggering display of mission-critical logistics capabilities that show UPS and FedEx in a different league from Amazon or USPS https://t.co/kke8XrF9sG
In what way? New technology? Societal changes? Utopianism? Economic boom? This claim hangs without any context: “It is an exodus that analysts say is reminiscent of the one that fueled the suburbanization of America in the second half of the 20th century” https://t.co/3v9kwxwVCl
This predictive model for home sale turnovers would have been the type of tool that accelerated racial blockbusting and redlining in a different era - softened with innocuous real estate jargon of ‘starter homes’ and ‘empty nesters’ https://t.co/iuB2uRJ7tT