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Tompkins and his wife can't fail to see the irony in the accusation they are old-fashioned imperialists in a new guise. "All the fears created by the fact that I am American buying land are ridiculous," says Tompkins. "My intention has always been to eventually turn over the...
In January, just as the University was set to release its 50-year plan for expansion into Allston, Harvard bought a 5.2-acre warehouse in the area for $16 million. The University has continued to acquire houses in the Boston neighborhood and its deal to purchase the Charlesview Apartments has...
The Gulf Coast that I saw was one where the wealthy slowly rebuild, while the poor (who overwhelmingly are racial minorities) watch helplessly from their makeshift FEMA trailers—their own solution to the housing crisis that still exists. This is a land where wealthy speculators purchase coastal land...
These are pretty challenging sites, but architects and landscape designers are treating them as opportunities to rethink what a park should look like and what it can say. Seattle was already a pioneer in this area by 1975, when the city opened its 20-acre Gas Works Park on the...
Five years ago, the city of Duisburg, Germany, vastly upped the ante when it completed its huge Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park, a 570-acre site occupied by massive relics of the former Thyssen Steelworks. Blast furnaces, rail lines, gas tanks--corroded ruins of the industrial age--were reborn as archaeological...