Waterfront TOD
The South Boston waterfront is regarded as one of America's boldest experiments in transit-oriented development.
"Long envisioned as Boston's smart growth frontier, the 300-acre waterfront district is expected to keep a generations worth of high-end development in the regional core. Mature transit systems like Bostons Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) spawn transit-oriented development (TOD) projects all the time; but a whole district, planned and built from scratch, is another matter... Twenty years ago, nothing guaranteed the new development district a transit-oriented future; the term did not even exist. But five seminal public policy decisions have combined to make the South Boston waterfront a TOD showcase."
Thanks to Chris Steins
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Published on Sunday, May 18, 2003 in
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