Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, represents a near-perfect marriage of technology, science, and capitalism. Butting right up against MIT and down the street from Harvard, the square boasts gleaming high-rises built by Pfizer, Biogen, and Akamai, offices with outposts for Google, Facebook, and Twitter, and thriving incubators and accelerators including Cogo Labs and MIT’s the Engine. In 2009, the Boston Consulting Group called it “the most innovative square mile on earth.”
Image: The first phase of a redevelopment plan around a new T station in Somerville. “I saw it happen once with Kendall Square, and I’ll see it again in Union Square,” says real estate agent David Lilley. (Rendering by US2)
