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Transcript: Boston Mayor Wants to Move City Hall
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ROBERT SIEGEL
All Things Considered (NPR)
12-27-2006
Boston Mayor Wants to Move City Hall
Host: ROBERT SIEGEL
Time 20:00-21:00 PM
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ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.
MELISSA BLOCK, host:
And I am Melissa Block.
The world is full of unfortunate architecture. But out of all of it, city hall plaza in Boston has the distinction of being voted the worst public space in the world by a group that ranks these things. The 11-acre plaza around city hall is a barren windswept wasteland of brick and concrete. And many think the building itself is an eyesore.
As NPR's Chris Arnold reports, the mayor of Boston is now talking about selling ...