Massachusetts
New England Regional Plan Worries Locals
The A.D. Makepeace Company plans a massive development of 3,500 new homes in three Massachusetts communities.
Housing Costs Driving Academics From Boston
While Boston has long been an nternational hub for university life, ich with labs and libraries and cademia's juiciest cocktail parties, the city is increasingly a tough sell to professors due to high housing costs.
Community Farms Are Good For Community
A community plot offers city residents a place to get their hands dirty and commune with the earth.
Boston's Fabled 'Urban Ring' Railway
A decade in the planning, Boston planners have come up with a strategy to created the fabled 'urban ring railway.'
Gentrification Is Coming To Chinatown
New high rise condominiums and higher rents are slowing eating away at one of Boston's distinct neighborhoods.
Boston's Housing Experiment
In hopes of revitalizing one of the city's poorest neighborhoods, the Boston Housing Authority experiment with bringing middle class residents into the community has produced mixed results.
Is The Massachusetts Preservation Act Unfair?
Critics claim Massachusetts Community Preservation Act unfairly benefits rich towns.
Shaping The City: Learning From Boston
Boston has been working at revitalization for 40 years; is a good example of how cities can be rebuilt.
Bill Encourages Public Transit, Car-pooling
A Massachusetts bill proposes tax breaks for businesses that encourage employees' use of public transport and car pools.
Big Dig Planners Work To Sustain Traffic Flow
With a big project like Boston's Central Artery, maintaining traffic flow is a major concern. Planners for the project have thus far been up to the challenge.
MA City Strives For Downtown Revival
Brockton, MA, is preparing to revitalize a downtown neighborhood revival by turning empty lots into affordable housing.
The Big Dig: Nation's Largest Public Works Project
Boston's Central Artery project -- also known as the 'Big Dig' -- is the nation's largest public works endeavor. Does it suffer from a lack of vision?
Architectural Commission Bans Street Furniture
The Boston Back Bay Architectural Commission has voted to ban street furniture such as newspaper boxes from a historic district.
Planned Community Struggles With Original Plan
New Seabury, one of the nation's first master planned communities, is struggling with residents who want development to stop.
Revitalizing The Center Of Town
Franklin, MA, may consider zoning changes in order to revitalize its downtown area.
Expose On Substandard Homebuilding
A Globe expose of homebuildings finds that substandard home construction is a growing national problem.
Boston: Cars Vs. Pedestrians
"America's walking city" has a high rate of pedestrian fatalities.
Boston's New Traffic Signals For Safer Intersections
Boston, MA, tries out new traffic signals that will make intersections safer for pedestrians.
Colleges Blamed For Housing Shortage
Affordable housing advocates in Boston are calling on the city's colleges to build more on campus housing, freeing up housing for low-income residents.
Growth Follows New England Highway
Along Interstate 495, once rural areas have given way to suburban sprawl and the new edge cities of New England.
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
