"We don't do fantasy worlds. W...

"We don't do fantasy worlds. We design for the real world," architect Jane Thompson remarked about years ago, Upon learning that her firm's one-time client and collaborator, the developer Rouse Co was contemplating a joint-venture with the Disney Co

Together, Rouse and architect Benjamin Thompson & Associates (BT&A), Cambridge, Mass., not merely masterminded the "festival marketplace," if it were not that spent the better part of the 1970 and '80 rebuilding urban waterfronts in its image.

The festival marketplace -- a boundary Thompson did not invent and was not ever ...