Blueprints for a new downtown Boston
Empty offices, vacant storefronts, wasted opportunities — it's time to reimagine the identity of the city's core. We've got ideas.
Turn empty offices into little factories
BY RACHEL SLADE
Give Quincy Market an unsentimental reboot
BY JOAN VENNOCHI
Make downtown a great place to raise a family
BY KARA MILLER
Downtown needs an infusion of artists
BY MILES HOWARD
Forget the ‘doom loop.’ America’s downtowns are coming back.
BY DAVID SCHARFENBERG
Readers weigh in: Your ideas for reimagining downtown Boston
The art of seduction for urban planners
BY BETH WOLFENSBERGER SINGER
Why downtowns matter
BY SARAH M. WHITING
What Boston can learn from other cities
BY SHIRLEY LEUNG
Downtown by the numbers
BY CHRISTINE MEHTA
Illustration and animation by
Heather Hopp-Bruce/Globe staff with images by Globe staff photographers, Adobe, and
H. Hopp-Bruce; mural art by Yevheniia Lytvynovych/Adobe
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