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Boston rapid transit map, 1954

June 2, 2014

Boston Rapid Transit map 1954

Click image to view full size. Via Cartographia.

Filed Under: Boston Tagged With: cities, history, maps

Demolition of Boston’s West End

September 22, 2012

West End

Chambers and Barton Streets, July 19, 1959 (via).

Filed Under: Boston Tagged With: cities, history, The Strangler, West End

Missing the West End

January 8, 2012

West End demolition

Architecture critic Robert Campbell has a nice essay in today’s Boston Globe asking “What makes the memory of this neighborhood so durable? Why do the people, half a century later, still feel that they are members of it?” Of course, the demolition of the West End figures prominently in my novel The Strangler. (Photos: Boston Globe.)

West End demolition

(Images: Boston’s old West End under demolition, ca. 1958-60.)

Filed Under: Boston Tagged With: Boston Globe, cities, Robert Campbell, The Strangler, West End

Shanghai 1990 vs. Shanghai 2010

January 20, 2011

Shanghai 1990 and 2010

Filed Under: Odds & Ends Tagged With: China, cities

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