Massachusetts

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incentives for towns to accept housing with greater density in their midst; and the creation of a panel to overhaul outdated zoning rules.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

A Boston Globe editorial comes out squarely against sprawl.

January 21, 2003 - The Boston Globe

Is Boston's preoccupation with history resulting in timid, dull, and ugly architecture?

January 20, 2003 - The Boston Globe

After years of efforts, could an influx of gay residents finally revitalize downtown Detroit?

January 16, 2003 - The Boston Globe

A rogue "halftime" outhouse in an upscale subdivision causes grief and complaints.

January 14, 2003 - The Boston Globe

Planners and environmentalists have wasted no time telling Massachusetts smart growth-friendly Governor: overhaul the state's antiquated zoning law!

January 6, 2003 - The Boston Globe