Tall Building in Historic Centers

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Among Bostonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fourteen districts, two of them contain several prominent historic neighborhoods. These districts, the Back Bay and the South End, have the second and third highest land values in the city. The areas exhibit many qualities characteristic of historic neighborhoods, including small parcel and block sizes, narrow streets and alleys, and restricted building height.

Tall Buildings in Historic Centers

Tall Building in Historic Centers

Published on Jan 30, 2013

Northeastern School of Architecture

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Though slim in volume, "Tall Buildings in Historic Centers" is rich with information specific to the disparate stratospheres of landmarks-organizations and tall buildings - because often the two collide. Unique to this study is: not just the finite practice of the collision – with its metrics, legislations, and countless built examples – but also the broader disciplinary problem (or promise) that the collision poses for architecture. The possibility that the surging capital motives of private real-estate development and the weight of social value can exist side-by-side – or bound – reassures the role of the architect in the future shaping of cities. More profoundly, this alludes to the responsibility an architect can hold in shaping history and capitalism.

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