Massachusetts
Forcing The State To Complete Required Transit Projects
Approval of Boston's $14-billion Big Dig included an array of mitigating transit projects. Now the State is having second thoughts.
Mixing Planning, History And Divinity
A high-profile interdisciplinary graduate planning workshop introduces a unique range of topics about the built environment.
Bolton, MA's First Town Planner
Nat Tipton will become the first professional town planner for Bolton in Eastern Massachusetts.
Review Of Frank Gehry's MIT Stata Center
Photographs and a review of architect Frank Gehry's new Stata Center for MIT.
Zipcar Rentals Gain Momentum
Zipcars -- the cars you can rent for a few hours at a time -- are gaining traction at Harvard.
A New Approach To Urban Economic Development
InnerCity Entrepreneurs represents a new approach to urban economic development -- channeling help to companies that have moved beyond the startup phase.
Groups Charge New Rules Eliminate Public Participation
The advocacy organizations Public Citizen and the Nuclear Information and Resource Service will be arguing in a Boston court that new Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) rules intended to increase "efficiency" in nuclear reactor licensing.
Big Dig Springs Big Leak
Boston's artery tunnel springs a leak, baffling engineers and snarling traffic.
Northampton Catches Up To Tear-down Trend
Northampton, Massachusetts faces an uglier side of successful economic revitalization.
A Call For A Car Alternative
A columnist issues a call for an alternative to the oil dependent, traffic-inducing automobile.
Fight Sprawl: Eat Locally
A new movement encourages eating local foods as a way to prevent sprawl and development of local agricultural lands.
Why Boston's Plants Bloom Earlier Now Than 100 Years Ago
Boston's average temperature has increased 1.5 degrees Celsius over the past century.
Boston: Urban Canvas
A program in Boston encourages young people to use collaborative outreach techniques to design and paint murals -- and foster community pride in many of Boston's neighborhoods.
EPA Proposes Large-Scale Effort to End 'Dead Zones'
The multibillion-dollar effort tightens regulations on sewage plants to limit the amount of nitrogen and phosphorous entering the Chesapeake Bay.
Boston Balances Lofty Ambitions, Harsh Realities
Under the spotlight of the Democratic Convention, 'the city on a hill' faces the strain of modern pressures on traditional political, economic, and social landscapes.
Don't Draw A Line If You Don't Have To
Most Bostonians have no idea where neighborhood boundaries start or end, thanks to a multitude of neighborhood maps.
Old Boston, New Boston: A Work In Progress
The struggle between tradition and innovation has characterized the city since colonial days.
Affordable Housing Statute Promotes Sprawl
Massachusetts 40B statute is contrary to the state Vision 2020 smart growth vision.
Boston Greenway Mired In Red Tape
Through the newly-signed agreement, Boston gets a look at the convoluted operation of the Big Dig parks.
Random Searches On Trains
If Boston commuter-train passenger searches are truly random, they will avoid the possibility of racial profiling.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
City of Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS)
Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)
The Architects Foundation
City of Cambridge
Montrose County
The Pocatello Development Authority
