Massachusetts

Most of Massachusetts' problems with affordable housing can be traced directly to the state's zoning law.

April 2, 2003 - The Boston Globe

After 16 years of drafting, spending, and defending, part of the Big Dig opens Sunday, stoking an urban revolution.

March 30, 2003 - The Christian Science Monitor

It's opening day for the core of Boston's massive Big Dig project.

March 28, 2003 - National Public Radio

Welcome to the unlikely industrial centerpiece of the Romney administration's antisprawl agenda.

March 24, 2003 - The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe editorializes on increased fares but decreased service on Boston's subway.

March 23, 2003 - The Boston Globe

Three firms have been selected to design parks for the most expensive public works project in U.S. history.

March 21, 2003 - Landscape Architecture Magazine

Neal Peirce reviews Boston's Indicators Project which provides high quality data and information about Boston.

March 20, 2003 - Citistates Group

A new study evaluates the economic impact of Boston's eight research universities on the Metropolitan Boston area.

March 11, 2003 - AICUM

Irrational housing prices are forcing middle class residents out of the city.

March 11, 2003 - The Boston Globe

Douglas Foy could revolutionize Massachusetts policies on planning and development.

March 10, 2003 - The Boston Globe

Harvard program helps create homeless shelters, low-income rental housing and home ownership programs for middle-income residents.

March 3, 2003 - Harvard University

Bechtel responds to The Boston Globe's 'misrepresentations of key facts, and a flagrant resort to innuendo.'

February 21, 2003 - Bechtel-Parsons Brinckerhoff

The Boston Globe presents a damning three-part series on how State officials excuse and protect Bechtel for over $1 billion in mistakes on the Big Dig.

February 21, 2003 - The Boston Globe

Massachusettes officials are trimming the number of sport utility vehicles that are used by state officials.

February 14, 2003 - The Boston Globe

After more than a decade, Boston's Central Artery is about to come down. What will take its place is becoming a citywide debate on land use.

February 3, 2003 - The Boston Globe

Report urges the consolidation of building codes into one simple guideline, incentives for towns to accept housing with greater density in their midst; and the creation of a panel to overhaul outdated zoning rules.

February 1, 2003 - The Boston Globe

Mixed-Use developments are lifting downtrodden Boston neighborhoods.

January 27, 2003 - The Boston Globe

Is it really too much to ask a developer to justify, in detail, why his building needs to dwarf everything else in the neighborhood?

January 25, 2003 - The Boston Globe

Anti-SUV ads are having an impact. Massachusetts state government is eliminating all but the most essential sport utility vehicles in the state's fleet.

January 25, 2003 - The Boston Globe

The Massachusetts State Supreme Court is to hear a case on whether a community essentially accepted a bribe to construct a power plant.

January 23, 2003 - The Boston Globe