Wednesday, September 25, 2002
The politics of development, Greater Boston style: A good piece in the Herald on the proposed redevelopment of the Opera House and another fine one in the Globe on efforts to develop Assembly Square Mall in Somerville. Greater Boston is a quaint, popular, European-style destination because it didn’t destroy its archictectural soul over the decades, unlike a lot of other cities. But sometimes development opponents have a clearly different agenda.
