Paul McMorrow – Snappy Title TK TK

My latest for the Globe examines the legacy of government-sponsored development in South Boston, in light of the current convention center expansion debate, and argues that the key to building out isn’t in a bigger big building on the waterfront, but in a re-imagining of what the neighborhood could and should be.

That process is already in play, and it won’t cost $1 billion, either.

[Photo from Pier 4, 1973, by Ernst Halberstadt. From the EPA's Documerica series. Courtesy of the National Archives]