Remembering the man who destroyed the West End

Jerome Rappaport died the other day, and the Globe had a glowing obituary, complete with a quote from the mayor, about his decades of philanthropy and as a builder who helped shape the Boston of today.

But as CommonWealth Magazine alerts us, they really glossed over the thing Rappaport is perhaps best known for, something that to this day serves as a cautionary tale for urban planners across the country: How he replaced the West End with those “If You Lived Here” towers.