Shined shoes 👞 there in late 1960’s

Ben Zander is the PAUL BEAR BRYANT of the musical world. Massive Respect for his teaching of music, and this profound lessons for life included within the former.

Good Stuff 👌🏾 Build more trains. Let's Go!!

A grand Federal home.

Chris was born in Vienna Austria; just FYI.

' what deep understanding of music and humanity !

Leonard Nimoy did not fly out to California, he took a train, from what he had said it took him 3 days. He was 18 or 19 at the time. If you're going to include Leonard (which you should, nobody would know about the West End, except Bostonians, without him.) in your talk you really need to study Leonard's history more. Contact his son, Adam or daughter, Julie, I'm sure they would give you the correct information on Leonard's life in the West End. You could also listen to his interviews; he talks about the West End in a lot of his interviews. They weren't trying to settle on a Vulcan Salute, Leonard suggested it. Get on You Tube and listen to his interview titled "Leonard Nimoy On Growing Up in The West End, Keeping..." There are more interviews similar to that if you surf it. LLAP

Love this guy.

At least one tenement is left! It deserves landmark status so that no one would ever dare tear it down. In fact, it could be surrounded by a modern apartment house of the same scale and mass as its extinct neighbors. 😢 It's a beautiful little building now, but back when I still lived in Boston I would ride the Green Line out to Lechmere and the trolley would slowly screech its way past what were then the last three tenements and I didn't think much of them.

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It’s a great interview and great work! Benjamin is such an inspiration 😊

Still not as nice as Grand Central Terminal.

Just found your channel via the Design is Everywhere: Urban Planning podcast episode. Great podcast and very excited to dive into your content as I love Urban Planning, but there isn’t as much thorough content as yours online!

Sam, good to talk with you. Thanks for asking about those two stories, in particular.

Uneven mics is a drag. Sound test: 15 sec. Like for further insight into C.A. Look at the book "Patterns of Home" how this is carried forward in residential design.

Hey guys, nice channel. is there any chance I could get in contact with you? email or chat? thanks

Thanks for this but wish the sound recording was more professional.

That is pretty sad. They're cleaning the bike lane. But the h*** with the people that are walk in the snowy sidewalk.

Thank you for this interview. I hope very much that designers, architects and planners will one day actually work with Christopher Alexanders ideas. It would make the world more beautiful.

Pink Chicken hypothesis is probably falsifiable! I'm just here for the holograms, Thank you.

I recall the murder of a Harvard football player named Andy Puopolo in the CZ was a major major news story in the 70s. I think this case plated a hand in tge demise of the CZ.

It should be noted that, if it wasn't for Leonard Nimoy, this Museum wouldn't exist today

Have a wonderful holiday Thank you very much for great interview

Great instructive interview

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Inconsistent audio levels between speakers ☹️

When I moved to Boston in 2014, everyone said how much better the city had become since the 70's... Now, in 2023, it certainly feels like we're sliding towards more violent crime, homelessness and drug addiction--even though the stats I checked seemed to indicate a drop in violent crime between the Pandemic and now. idk if we really are, or we're just seeing it more. The numbers I read on crime and the rates were reported per 100,000 residents, which can still allow for a gross increase in crime, even if the normal person is less likely to be a victim: perhaps, it's a dilution of more violent criminals, in a larger pool of people. The perception of an increase in violent crime is likely the media (mainstream and social). If there are 100 murders a day, each murder is less news and less ratings than one before. Whereas, if you only have 10 murders a year, each one is a big story... Eg: These days there are two school shootings a week (on average), and 250 gun-deaths in the US everyday... but that's not a gripping--it's depressing, people tune-in to gripping events, people turn-off depressing events... myvintagemap.com/is-boston-safe/#:~:text=Violent%20crime%20in%20Boston,-According%20to%20Neighborhood&text=Violent%20crimes%20include%20rape%2C%20sexual,a%20total%20of%2041%20murders). I was homeless in Boston for a few short spells: I was living on Long Island when the bridge closed--I was evacuated rapidly... I stayed briefly in Woods Mullen, a short stint in the Pine Street Inn, almost a year in the Gavin House, some times in a few other halfway houses, and sober houses which admitted the indigent... The first job I got (while trying to rebuild my life) I walked about an hour from Dorchester/Roxbury to the Whole Foods at Ink Block in the South End--walking through Mass & Cass everyday, at 5:00am and 4:00pm; it was MUCH smaller, and very different. It was a spill-over of people who couldn't find beds at shelters (Mass & Cass is proximal to a women's shelter, two homeless shelters, BMC hospital... i'm not sure if the methadone clinics are still there...). In bad times, I would walk a lot of the more dangerous places, late--well into the early morning. The only time I was the victim of violence, was when a woman--an older woman--at a bus stop asked me for a cigarette, and I said I didn't have any. As I walked by, she kicked me in the behind, mumbling "Stupid ass, white boy..." It was pretty funny. I hope they do re-open Long Island. The Mayor of Quincy, Koch, is opposed to re-building the bridge, because he doesn't want "dangerous elements" passing through his precious Quincy neighborhoods--even when that element is in a shuttle that transports the homeless directly from the Woods Mullen boarding point, to the island, with no stops... like they did for years before. Mayor Koch's real hypocrisy is that he used his political connections to get his heroin-addicted nephew into the Gavin House for addiction treatment, and now, he wants to deny addicts access to treatment... The Gavin House is a "prestigious" halfway house in South Boston, with a storied history of "rehabilitating" the addicted. Former Boston Mayor, and former Secretary of Labor, Marty Walsh, is an "alumnus" of the Gavin House; he spoke at it's yearly anniversary dinner when I was there.... How did I get into a place normally reserved for unions, politicians and their families? 2 reasons: (1) I had a political connection, my uncle is a former State Representative, & currently on several state councils, so I was on the wait-list to get in... (2) I was waiting in a transitional treatment "holding," on Long Island when the island closed, and the Gavin House was forced to accept an overload of addicts, and to take in people early--people they wouldn't necessarily accept otherwise. I'm rambling... Idk what the Red Light district was like... I'm sure it wasn't Amsterdam.

Microphone is too close to your mouth. Hard to tune in

Was he in a group called the Cufflinks?

There's so much to say about Maestro Zander that I don't know where to begin! He represents so many things! Such a magnificent motivator. I like the fact that he plays the cello too! Such a wonderful sounding instrument. One comment I read from one of his videos mentioned that he should be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and I definitely agree with this person. He is so much more than a musician, conductor etc. In my eyes, he loves people and wants to see them succeed in life The idea of shiny eyes, to see if people are responding to you is so great. The idea that the conductor never makes a sound, that the power of sound comes from the orchestra he is directing, so it is very important that he helps them to create those wonderful sounds!

Great work here, will be wonderful for walking on the plaza

May 4-23 i'm about two thirds through A Timeless Way of Building and now my house and yard are starting to unify and come alive. The meaning of life is to be surrounded by Nature and to understand emergence in Spirit through being in beauty.

Love you Benjamin Zander! You're a big inspiration to me! ❤

Great video

I came here via searching for "Christopher Alexander" following reference to him in a software book and it was illuminating - thank you.

Amazing tour! Thank you!

This is a great recap. Draper is lucky to be a part of the Innovation trail. We look forward to the future and tackling even more "impossible" challenges!

One thing I see with the greenline extension it is cleaner than a New York City Subway station and cheaper basically you are saving $2.10 for a group of 6 $14.40 $2.40 base fare vs $16.50 NYC Subway base fare $2.75.

Keep up the good work - woo woo

Christofer Alexanders thoughts on architecture are so overwhelming and at the same time so easy to understand if you make the effort . Thankyou for this video that I’m watching from Sweden, aug 2022 , where beauty is drowned in concrete and glass, all architects imitatating each other.

thank you, thank you, reading Alexander has been comforting for me

Thank you for this awesome conversation and for talking about a great man.

Buy them a ice tea or something they deserve alot of credit your service is deeply appreciated thanks take care. Joe

are you going to teach like the videos i see on the utube hope you continue to teach your students like you did on the utube

Could you plan a better microphone next time?

This is a great recap, Sam. Thanks for putting in the time to pull this together!!👏🏾

Years ago we got a morning Boston Record American news paper delivery and then one in the evening.

Very insightful! As far as collecting trash goes, Cambridge is one of the toughest places in America to do it. For all the reasons you showed, from the density of the trash, narrow streets, big barrels, it is back-breaking work. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for this most interesting video.

Very nice!