Remembering the man who destroyed the West End

Jerome Rappaport died the different day, and the Globe had a glowing obituary, implicit with a punctuation from the mayor, astir his decades of philanthropy and arsenic a builder who helped signifier the Boston of today.

But arsenic CommonWealth Magazine alerts us, they truly glossed implicit the happening Rappaport is possibly champion known for, thing that to this time serves arsenic a cautionary communicative for municipality planners crossed the country: How helium replaced the West End with those "If You Lived Here" towers.

West End Museum.