[Tuckerman]

These city comparison discussions always lead down strange rabbit holes. I lived in Boston and Cambridge in the early 1960s as a student and then working in the Science Museum. I enjoyed the city and at one point lived in an apartment (next to Back Bay Station), which is now part of the M Pike extension. I have lived in Atlanta for @ 30 years, but visited Atlanta in the mid -60s several times. When I go back on occasion to Boston it strikes me as more or less, mostly more, as the same place as it was in the 60s. (one can hear the Bostonians shouting about how much it has changed, but essentially the city was well cooked by the 1960s). On the other hand Atlanta has profoundly changed since that time; in fact it has greatly changed even in the past 30 years and is still in the oven cooking. The growth (and sprawl patterns) of these two cities chiefly reflects the period(s) of their major development and the transportation modes available to get from work to residence.