Government Center (Boston, Massachusetts)

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Set on the site of the former Scollay Square and part of the West End, Boston's Government Center is the home of city and federal government buildings including Boston's City Hall and the John F. Kennedy Federal Buliding.

Build on the razed Scollay Square and West End neighborhoods, Government Center represents what is considered the worst example of "urban renewal", a trend in the 1960s to level older neighborhoods to make way for new modern developments. City Hall and its Plaza is universally derided as a failure of urban planning and cold, ugly concrete architecture and poor urban planning.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Center,_Boston,_Massachusetts
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Coordinates:   42°21'38"N   71°3'32"W

Comments

  • Thankfully, modernism in urban design has ended --rightfully declared a failure. The only upside to lost neighborhoods like this is that more cities weren't harmed (notably parts of New York City and Paris).
  • I hate City Hall Plaza. What an ugly waste of space! And to top it off, they build an ugly City Hall on top of the ugly open space! *sigh*
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