The Blue Hills and the Middlesex Fells are the gateways of Boston--they must never be developed
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Islands of forest surrounded by sprawl... When Boston begins to boom again, must focus on developing INSIDE those gateways!
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Narrower streets, end of parking minimums, etc, to free up land There are no gateways like the aforementioned ones to Boston's west...
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...because all prospects have been infiltrated by sprawling development. Note that by this I do not mean that all woods west of Boston...
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...have been cleared and built upon, but rather, that roads and houses *permeate* them; there are no large undisturbed pockets
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Remember, wildlife needs expansive contiguous blocks of habitat, NOT a scattering of human habitation throughout--however sparse it is!
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Compare low-density sprawl outside Boston with unbroken natural landscape outside Tokyopic.twitter.com/Eb480T5Fad
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imma avoid saying why low density sprawl exists in US but not Tokyo because this is a nice thread
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even where space and flat land is a non-issue (hi Hokkaido) they keep things close
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if Boston had Tokyo's crime rate it would be high rises surrounded by a nature preserve
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u mean single family houses close together surrounded by a nature preserve but yeah agree
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