Massachusetts
A New 'Boston Common On The Water'
Boston plans to transform the industrial Fort Point Channel into a waterfront park and retail center.
Mansions Vs. Affordable Housing
How does a Boston town nicknamed "Deluxebury" where the average home sells for just under $1 million, build affordable housing?
Making Big Plans For After The Big Dig
What should go on the 25 acres of new open land atop Boston's depressed Central Artery is anybody's guess.
State Mortage Program Rewards Mass Transit Use
New Massachusetts mortgage program encourages mass transit use by offering riders of commuter bus, boat, and rail services to qualify for home loans with no down payment.
Boston's Central Artery: A Victim Of Planning?
An editorial calls for more participation in planning Boston's Central Artery, or it is doomed to become the victim of planners.
From Great Estates To Planned Communities
Redeveloping massive estates into planned communities is happening across Massachusetts as land becomes scarce.
Anti Terror Policy: Dispersal Takes Hold
Partly as a response to September 11th, businesses have adopted a strategy of geographic disperal.
MA Developing 'Toolbox' To Manage Growth
Massachusetts is developing a "toolbox" to help planners manage growth including software that allows towns to visualize their future based on new zoning.
Call Goes Out To Redesign Downtown Boston
Over a decade after the Big Dig started, a call has gone out to urban designers to plan a new downtown Boston.
Boston's 'Midtown': A Revitalized Back Bay Complex
The Prudential Center renewal brings back new restaurants, stores, and pedestrians.
Boston Increases Taxes On Expensive Homes
Boston is shifting its tax burden to the increasing number of wealthy homeowners.
Boston's Mysterious 'Parking Zone'
Boston has a mysterious 'parking zone', where you can get cited -- for no apparent reason.
Enforcing Transit By Limiting Parking
Official in South Boston plan to halt the number of off-street parking places, sending a chill through the development community.
Boston's New Intelligent Transportation System
When Boston's new Central Artery opens in 2003, it will be nation's largest, most sophisticated, and most expensive system.
Boston's Most Ambitious Affordable Housing Initiative
A nonprofit religious group plans to build 1,000 affordable homes across the city.
The Suburban Melting Pot
Immigrants are reviving suburban communities across the country, and causing massive demographic changes.
Is Paris A Model For Boston?
The Boston Globe offers the first in a series of articles about how U.S. cities can learn from urban design abroad.
Big City, Back Streets
The need for light-industrial and commercial space in Boston’s backstreets is opening up additional development opportunities.
Planning Can't Keep Up With Development
A Boston Globe editorial charges that new development and gentrification are outpacing planning efforts in Boston's Chinatown.
Developing Over The Massachusetts Turnpike
Plan to build over a sunken Massachusetts Turnpike using air rights is turning out to be a challenge.
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 Thousand Oaks
City of Wisconsin Rapids
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
