To a less selfish future

Robert Campbell, the Globe's architecture critic, considers what Boston may become in the next decade or two, with what I would say is an accurate description of the current situation and a worthy goal for what might become.

Into the future - The Boston Globe

in the city of the future, the universities will assume a more responsible role in the life of the place. Today they're selfish and isolated. I can't imagine, just for one example, why Harvard, even before the current slump in its endowment, wasn't eager to collaborate with Boston and Cambridge to help fund the Urban Ring, which could connect Harvard to its satellites in Allston and Longwood. In the future the universities won't be so separated off onto campuses. They'll begin marbling in with the rest of us. Town-gown distinctions will blur.