Massachusetts

Can Boston's Boylston Street ever become the city's Champs Elysees? No, but it might become a sophisticated mixed-use boulevard.

April 14, 2003 - The Boston Globe

MIT's storied Media Lab, which grew out of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, is on the brink of breakup.

April 11, 2003 - Wired

To help curb sprawl, the Romney administration has turned to a planner who opposes Somerville's plan to attract retail stores to Assembly Square.

April 9, 2003 - The Boston Globe

Federal auditors have concluded that one of the two companies managing Boston's Big Dig overcharged the public by $31 million.

April 3, 2003 - The Boston Globe

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