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The Boston Globe Adrian Walker Column.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2003

By Adrian Walker, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 14--It sounds idyllic, the idea of four acres of parkland in the middle of town where once sat a rusting, dilapidated highway. But the vision of the Rose Kennedy Greenway could never be realized without a good fight. And one has arrived, somewhat ahead of schedule.

It pits EDAW, an internationally renowned landscape design firm, which was hired to design the park in the wharf area, against the Boston Redevelopment Authority, which has taken a dim view, loudly expressed, of the firm's planning.

The project itself is of huge importance. Part of the promise of the Central Artery project was that it would do wonders for the design of the city. It would, in...

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