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"Fire Safer" Cigarettes: The Effect of the New York State Cigarette Fire Safety Standard on Ignition Propensity, Smoke Toxicity and the Consumer Market
"Subject to Appropriations" Funding for Tobacco Control in Massachusetts, 1993 - 2003
A Change of Heart: How the People of Framingham, Massachusetts Helped Unravel the Mysteries of Cardiovascular Disease
A Commonwealth Growing Apart: Family Income in Massachusetts
A Darker Shade of Pale: The Influence of Local Context and Racial Identity on White Attitudes Towards Black Americans
A Demonstration That School-Based Required Service Does Not Deter – But Heightens – Volunteerism
A Golden Age of Philanthropy? The Impact of the Great Wealth Transfer on Greater Boston
A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department
A New Paradigm for Housing in Greater Boston
A Programmatic Audit of the Massachusetts Vitamin Litigation Project
A Public Health Approach to Reducing Morbidity and Mortality Among Homeless People in Boston
A Seat at the Table? Racial/Ethnic & Gender Diversity on Corporate, Hospital, Education, Cultural & State Boards
A Statewide Public Health Approach to Improving Organ Donation: The Massachusetts Organ Donation Initiative
A Study of the Contexts Within Which Urban Vacant Land is Accessed for Community Open Space
Abandoned Buildings Report for the City of Boston, 2004
Accountability and Leadership at the School Level: Elementary Principals' Efforts to Improve Teaching and Learning
Achievement in Charter Schools and Regular Public Schools in the United States: Understanding the Differences
Achieving Full Citizenship: An Institutional Approach to the Political Incorporation of Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada
Adding Value: Perceptions of Boston Educators Regarding Girls' Participation in Math, Science and Technology
Addressing Medical Debt: A Review of Massachusetts Non-Profit Acute Care Hospital Billing and Collection Practices
After Welfare Reform: A Snapshot of Low-Income Families in Boston
After Welfare Reform: Trends in Poverty and Emergency Service Use in Massachusetts
Age, Women, and Hiring: An Experimental Study
AIDS Housing in New England
Aligning Resources, Needs, and Wants: Public Budgeting and Management
Amenity-Based Housing Affordability Indexes
An Analysis of the State Public Education Aid Funding Mechanism Established by the Massachusetts Education Reform Act
An Entrepreneurial University: The Transformation of Tufts 1976-2002
An Environmental Health Survey of Residents in Boston Chinatown
An Evaluation of the Accessibility Benefits of Commuter Rail in Eastern Massachusetts: Using Spatial Hedonic Price Functions
An Exploration of the Nexus of the Public and Private Sectors in the Project Management Organization for Two Boston Megaprojects: The Central Artery/Tunnel Project and the Boston Harbor Cleanup
Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Distribution
Asian Americans in Metro Boston: Growth, Diversity, and Complexity
Assessing High House Prices: Bubbles, Fundamentals, and Misperceptions
Attachments, Grievances, Resources, and Efficacy: The Determinants of Tenant Association Participation Among Public Housing Tenants
Better Management for Better Schools: A Review of the Structure and Functions of the Central Office of the Cambridge Public Schools
Betting the Future: The Economic Impact of Legalized Gambling
Bicycle Safety Behavior in Paris and Boston
Borrowing Trouble IV: High-Cost Mortgage Lending in Greater Boston, 2004
Borrowing Trouble VII: Higher Cost Mortgage Lending in Boston, Greater Boston, and Massachusetts, 2005
Boston Among 35 American Cities
Boston at the Crossroads: Racial Trends in the Metropolitan Area in the 1990s and Beyond
Boston Benefits as College Capital: A Decade of Enrollment in Boston's Colleges and Universities
Boston Bound: A Comparison of Boston's Legal Powers with Those of Six Other Major American Cities
Boston Chartbook: A Primer of Boston's Economy
Boston in Focus: A Profile from Census 2000
Boston's Industrial Spaces
Boston's Population by Census Tract: 2000
Boston's Population: Boston's Housing, Families and Households
Boston's Population: Boston's Youth Population, 2000
Boston's Population: Changes in Asian and Hispanic Populations
Boston's Population: Major Findings of Census 2000 in Boston
Boston's Population: Population by Wards and Precincts - 2000
Boston's Population: Race and Ethnicity, 2000
Boston's Population: Selected Economic Characteristics of Boston
Boston's Population: Selected Housing Characteristics of Boston
Boston's Population: Selected Social Characteristics of Boston
Boston's Strong Economy 2002: Resisting the Recession
Boston: Still a Magnet for Young Adults
Bridges and Barriers to Housing for Chronically Homeless Street Dwellers :The Effects of Medical and Substance Abuse Services on Housing Attainment
Bridging Difference: Interaction and Learning Through Civic Work
Bringing Smart Growth to Massachusetts: Douglas Foy and the Office for Commonwealth Development
Broken Windows: New Evidence from New York City and a Five-City Social Experiment
Budgeting for Basics: The Changing Landscape of City Finances
Can CitiStat Work in Greater Boston?
Cape Cod and the Islands: B&B + R&D = A New Economy
Capital Gains: Its Recent, Varied and Growing Impact on State Revenues
Catholics and the ConCon: The Church's Response to the Massachusetts Gay Marriage Decision
Change and the Illusion of Change: Evolving News Portrayals of African-Americans in a Local Market
Changes in Mitigation: Comparing Boston's Big Dig and 1950s Urban Renewal
Changing Patterns XII: Mortgage Lending to Traditionally Underserved Borrowers and Neighborhoods in Greater Boston, 1990 - 2004
Changing the Boston School Choice Mechanism
Changing Women: An Ethnographic Study of Homeless Mothers and Popular Education
Chapter 40R School Cost Analysis and Proposed Smart Growth School Cost Insurance Supplement
Characteristics of Homeless Families Accessing Massachusetts Emergency Shelters 1999-2001
Child Care and the Welfare to Work Transition
Churches, Charities, and Corrective Justice: Making Churches Pay for the Sins of Their Clergy
Cities, Regions, and the Decline of Transport Costs
Citizen Participation and Local Governmental Choice in Local Environmental Controversies
City-Suburban Desegregation: Parent and Student Perspectives in Metropolitan Boston
Civic Leadership and the Big Dig
Coming Around
Commercial Land Use in Boston
Community Corrections Programs at the Suffolk County House of Correction: Strategies for Optimizing Use while Minimizing Risk
Community Economic Development in a Context of Globalization and Metropolization: A Comparison of Four North American Cities
Community Health Centers' Impact on the Political and Economic Environment
Community Policing and Youth as Assets
Community Undesirability in Black and White: Examining Racial Residential Preferences Through Community Perceptions
Comparing the Clinical Quality and Cost of Secondary Care in Academic Health Centers and in Community Hospitals
Completion Report: Boston's Housing Strategy, 2000-2003
Consequences for Victims: A Comparison of Bias- and Non-Bias-Motivated Assaults
Creating an Anti-Growth Regulatory Regime: A Case from Greater Boston
Creating an Effective Foundation to Prevent Youth Violence: Lessons Learned from Boston in the 1990s
Creating Communities of Learning: Public Education in Greater Boston
Crowd Control That Can Kill: Can American Police Get a Grip on Their New, "Less-Lethal" Weapons Before They Kill Again?
Delays at Logan Airport
Designing the First Cambridge Status Report on Women and Girls
Development Through Public Transit
Diversity Spreads Out: Metropolitan Shifts in Hispanic, Asian, and Black Populations Since 2000
Do New England State and Local Governments Have Too Many Employees, and Are They Overpaid?
Dorchester Lead-Safe Yard Project: A Pilot Program to Demonstrate Low-Cost, On-Site Techniques to Reduce Exposure to Lead-Contaminated Soil
Early Intervention in Low Birth Weight Premature Infants: Results at 18 Years of Age for the Infant Health Development Program
Economic and Fiscal Impact of the 2004 Democratic National Convention
Economic Growth and Linkage with Silicon Valley
Effectiveness of Stormwater Best Management Practices Along the Southeast Expressway, Boston, Massachusetts
Efficiency Improvements to the Fleet Management Systems in the City of Worcester
Emergency Management: The Relationship Between Harvard University and the City of Cambridge
Enabling the Asian American Electorate: 2003 Voter Registration in Eleven Massachusetts Towns and Citites
End of a Miracle? Crime, Faith, and Partnership in Boston in the 1990s
Enhancing Regional Greenfrastructure
Entrepreneurial Spawning: Public Corporations and the Genesis of New Ventures, 1986 - 1999 (Massachusetts and Silicon Valley)
Escaping from Crime of Inner Cities: Church Attendance and Religious Salience Among Disadvantaged Youth
Evaluation of the Massachusetts Smoke-free Workplace Law: A Preliminary Report
Evidence for Action: Strengthening After-School Programs for All Children and Youth
Evidence-Based Practice in Community-Based Child Welfare Systems (Boston and Cleveland)
Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects on Youth
Extended Care Career Ladder Initiative (ECCLI) Round 2: Evaluation Report
Facing the Fiscal Crisis in State Governments: National Problem, National Responsibilities
Faith in our Schools? A Study in Portraiture of Three Teachers of Religion
Fear and Loathing in Massachusetts: Chapter 40B, Community Opposition, and Residential Property Value
Federal R&D Funding in Boston: City's Intellectual Capital Yields Large Economic Benefits
Finding Work in the City
Food Stamps: Available But Not Easily Accessible, A Study Conducted for Project Bread
Freight, Gateways, and Mega-Urban Regions: The Logistical Integration of the Bostwash Corridor
Gaining Ground: Value-Added Analysis for Massachusetts
Gender, Economic Context, Perceptions of Safety, and Quality of Life: A Case Study of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1982-1996
Geography and Generosity: Boston and Beyond
Getting Home: Overcoming Regulatory Barriers to Housing in Greater Boston
Getting off to a Good Start
Guarding the Town Walls: Mechanisms and Motives for Restricting Multi-family Housing in Massachusetts
Hard Numbers, Hard Times: Homeless Individuals in Massachusetts Emergency Shelters, 1999-2003
Hate Crimes Hurt More
Head of the Class: Characteristics of Higher Performing Urban High Schools in Massachusetts
Health Care at the Crossroads: A Guide for the Perplexed
Help-Seeking Behaviors of Blacks and Whites Dying from Coronary Heart Disease
Higher Education in Boston: Intellectual Capital as a Cataylst for Economic Growth
Historical Description of the Vegetation of the Boston Harbor Islands: 1600-2000
History of Boston's Economy: Growth and Transition, 1970-1998
HIV/AIDS Housing Trends in Greater Boston
House by House, Block by Block
How Good a Deal Was the Tobacco Settlement? Accessing Payments to Massachusetts
How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program
I Love That City, But Which City? Urban Change and Urban Identity in Basel, Boston, and Cologne
Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Neighborhood Revitalization
Immigrant Homebuyers in Lawrence and Lowell, Massachusetts: Keys to Revitalization of Cities
Immigrants, Sustainability and Emerging Roles for Universities
Immigration and Local Urban Participatory Democracy: A Boston-Paris Comparison
Implementing Urban Waterfront Redevelopment in an Historic Context: A Case Study of the Boston Naval Shipyard- the Politics of Boston's Linkage Policy
Improving Employment Outcomes Through the Massachusetts Parole Board's Regional Reentry Center Initiative: Policy Analysis and Recommendations
Incentives, Capacity, and Implementation: Evidence from Massachusetts Education Reform
Inclusionary Zoning and the Constitution
Industrial and Operations Jobs in Boston
Industry Clusters in Metropolitan Boston
Job Sprawl and the Spatial Mismatch Between Blacks and Jobs
Keeping Policy Churn Off the Agenda: Urban Education and Civic Capacity
Labor Market Problems in Massachusetts from the End of the Labor Market Boom in 2000 Through 2003
Landowner Driven Sustainable Forest Management and Value-Added Processing
Large-Lot Housing Construction in the Greater Boston Metropolitan Area
Leadership Through Innovation: The History of Boston's Economy, 1970-2000
Leading the Way II: A Report on Boston's Housing Strategy 2004-2007
Leading the Way II: Midpoint Progress Report on Boston's Housing Strategy 2004-2005
Leading the Way: Mayor's Report on Boston Housing
Learning from the Test: Improving the Teaching of English Language Arts Using Systematic Diagnosis of MCAS Item-level Information
Leaving Money and Food on the Table: Food Stamp Participation in Major Metropolitan Areas and Counties
Lessons from the World Trade Center for Open Space Planning Generally and Boston’s Big Dig Specifically
Leveraging Opportunity: Implementing a Mixed-Finance Strategy to Preserve and Renovate the Massachusetts State Public Housing System
Linear Parks and Urban Neighbourhoods: A Study of the Crime Impact of the Boston South-west Corridor
Listening to Parents: Overcoming Barriers to the Adoption of Children from Foster Care
Local Services, Local Aid and Common Challenges
Low-Hanging Fruit: Social Values and Industry Discretion in Toxics Use Reduction Policy
Making a Name: Women's Surnames at Marriage and Beyond
Managing Project Expectations in Human Services Information Systems Implementations: The Case of Homeless Management Information Systems
Mapping and Measuring Social Disparities in Premature Mortality: The Impact of Census Tract Poverty Within and Across Boston Neighborhoods, 1999-2001
Market Reaction to Public Information: The Atypical Case of the Boston Celtics
Mass. Commuting
Massachusetts Business Taxes: Unfair? Inadequate? Uncompetitive?
Massachusetts Charter Schools and Their Feeder Discricts: A Demoraphic Analysis
Massachusetts Medical Devices: Leveraging the Region's Capabilities
Massachusetts Recovery Stronger than First Thought
Massachusetts Tech Prep: Development of Programs and Outcomes for 1998 Graduates
MassHealth: It’s Good for Business – Ten Facts the Employer Community Should Know About the Massachusetts Medicaid Program
Massport: The Aftermath of 9/11
Mayoral Influence, New Regimes, and Public School Governance
MCAS Scores and the Adams Scholarship: A Policy Failure
Measuring Disparities in Non-School Costs and Revenue Capacity Among Massachusetts Cities and Towns
Megaprojects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment
Metropolitan America in the New Century: Metropolitan and Central City Demographic Shifts Since 2000
Middle Market Rentals: Hiding in Plain Sight
Mobilizing Geography: Locating Space in Social Movement Theory
Modeling Infrastructure Vulnerabilities and Adaptation to Climate Change in Urban Systems: Methodology and Application to Metropolitan Boston
Monopoly-Creating Bank Consolidation? The Merger of Fleet and BankBoston
More than Shelter: Housing the People of Greater Boston
Mortgage Lending to Traditionally Underserved Borrowers and Neighborhoods in Greater Boston, 1990 - 2003
Moving to Opportunity and Tranquility: Neighborhood Effects on Adult Self Sufficiency and Health from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment
Needed Corrections: Promising Strategies for Improving Massachusetts' Prisons and Jails
New Estimates of the Demand for Urban Green Space: Implications for Valuing the Environmental Benefits of Boston's Big Dig Project
New Hope and New Politics
Now That We Do: Same Sex Couples - A Demographic and Economic Perspective
On the Demand for City Living
On the Right Track: Meeting Greater Boston's Transit and Land Use Challenges
One Step Forward: Two Steps Back, Massachusetts Nonprofit Agencies and their Clients in the Post-Welfare Reform Era
One-Fifth of America: A Comprehensive Guide to America's First Suburbs
Open Space, Housing Construction and Home Prices: What's the Payoff from Smart Growth?
Operating Within The Rules: Welfare Recipients' Experiences with Sanctions and Case Closings
Out of Control: What Can We Learn from the End of Massachusetts Rent Control?
Overrepresentation of Bilingual and Poor Children in Special Education Classes: A Continuing Problem
Painting a Truer Picture of US Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Health Inequalities: The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project
Pardon? A New Proposal for Reducing Noise at Boston Logan International Airport
Parents, Choice, and Some Foundations for Education Reform in Massachusetts
Partners in Prevention: Community-Wide Homelessness Prevention in Massachusetts and the United States
Police and Riots, 1967 - 1969
Political Contributions by Asian Americans: An Analysis of the 2002 Massachusetts Gubernatorial Campaign
Political Waters: The Long, Dirty, Contentious, Incredibly Expensive but Eventually Triumphant History of Boston Harbor - A Unique Environmental Success Story
Prison, Hospital or Community: Community Re-Entry and Mentally Ill Offenders
Problem-Oriented Policing, Deterrence, and Youth Violence: An Evaluation of Boston's Operation Ceasefire
Property Tax Limits and Local Fiscal Behavior: Did Massachusetts Cities and Towns Spend Too Little on Town Services Under Proposition 2½?
ProTech, a School-to-Career Program in Boston: Its Strengths and Limitations from the Perspectives of its Graduates
Protecting the Innocent: The Massachusetts Governor’s Council Report
Protestant-Catholic-Buddhist: Korean Americans and Religious Adaptation in Greater Boston
Public Projects and Citizen Participation: The Challenge of Coordinating Meaningful Public Involvement Over Time
Punishing Not-for-Profit: Implications of Nonprofit Privatization in Juvenile Punishment
Race, Affirmative Action, and Women's Employment in U.S. Highway Construction
Race, Gender, and Familial Status: Discrimination in One US Mortgage Lending Market
Reaching Capacity: A Blueprint for the State Role in Improving Low Performing Schools and Districts
Reducing Gang Violence in Boston
Reflections on Community Process in the Multi-layered Communities of a Major Urban Development Project
Refusing HIV Testing in an Urgent Care Setting: Results from the "Think HIV" Program
Regulating Subdivisions in Massachusetts: Practices and Outlooks
Regulation and Capitalization of Environmental Amenities: Evidence from the Toxic Release Inventory in Massachusetts
Regulation and the Rise of Housing Prices in Greater Boston
Regulation and the Rise of Housing Prices in Greater Boston: Policy Brief
Reinventing Boston, 1640 - 2003
Remaking Public Service Broadcasting: Lessons from Allston-Brighton Free Radio
Report of the 2004 Boston Youth Survey
Residential Land Use in Boston
Rethinking Justice in Massachusetts: Public Attitudes Toward Crime and Punishment
Rethinking the Allocation of Teaching Resources
Revenue Sharing and the Future of the Massachusetts Economy
Robin Hood and His Not-So-Merry Plan: Capitalization and the Self-Destruction of Texas' School Finance Equalization Plan
Sacred Landscapes and Profane Structures: How Offshore Wind Power Challenges the Environmental Impact Review Process
Scales of Airport Expansion: Globalization, Regionalization, and Local Land Use
School Based Programs: Lessons Learned from CATCH, Planet Health, and Not-On-Tobacco
School Choice: An Experimental Study
Segregation in the Boston Metropolitan Area at the End of the 20th Century
Separate, Unequal, and Stigmatized
Serious Youth Gun Offenders and the Epidemic of Youth Violence in Boston
Sewers in the City: A Case Study of Individual-Level Mortality and Public Health Initiatives in Northampton, Massachusetts at the Turn of the Century
Shipping Container Security at Boston's Conley Terminal
Signs of Life: The Growth of Biotechnology Centers in the U.S.
Situation Critical, Report 2000: Meeting the Housing Needs of Lower-Income Massachusetts Residents
Smart Cafe Cities: Testing Human Capital Externalities in the Boston Metropolitan Area
Smart Growth: Education, Skilled Workers, and the Future of Cold-Weather Cities
Social Preservationists and the Quest for Authentic Community
Socioeconomic Status and Mental Illness: Tests of the Social Causation and Selection Hypothesis
Space Available: The Realities of Convention Centers as Economic Development Strategy
Standards-Based Education Reform in the Computer Age: Lessons from Boston's Murphy School
Strategic Response to Regulatory Thresholds: Evidence from the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act
Street Culture in Cambridge, Massachusetts?: The Perceptions of "Poor", "At-Risk" Teens Near Harvard
Streets of Glory: Church and Community in a Black Urban Neighborhood
Striking a Responsive Chord: How Political Ads Motivate and Persuade Voters by Appealing to Emotions
Strong Families, Strong Communities: A Report on the Family Circle Project
Subprime Mortgage Lending in Greater Boston, 2000 - 2003
Support for Condom Availability and Needle Exchange Programs Among Massachusetts Adults, 1997
Supporting Education Reform: Mayoral and Corporate Paths (Boston and Pittsburgh)
Surviving Against the Odds: Families’ Journeys off Welfare and out of Homelessness
Tabulating Turnover in the Boston Public Schools: A Data-Driven Approach to Teacher Mobility
Tall Ships Visit Boston: The Economic Impact of Sail Boston on Boston and the Region
Tax Exempt Property in Boston: Analysis of Types, Uses, and Issues
Technology Centers During the Economic Downturn: What Have We Learned?
Tenancy Rent Control
Terrorism: A Community Response
The 2005 Boston Community Survey
The Benefits of HMO Community Benefits Programs
The Boston Economy 2003
The Boston Economy 2004: Turning the Corner
The Boston Public School Match
The Challenge of Energy Policy in New England
The Changing Face of Massachusetts
The Chelsea Experiment
The Color of Money in Greater Boston: Patterns of Mortgage Lending and Segregated Housing at the Beginning of the New Century
The Comparative Cost of Labor in Massachusetts and the Boston Metropolitan Area: Another Look at the Empirical Evidence
The Economic Impact of Eight Research Universities on the Boston Region
The Economic Impact of the Boston Living Wage Ordinance
The Excel Academy Charter Middle School
The First Community Health Centers
The Full Fruits of Our Labor: The Rebirth of the Living Wage Movement
The Fundamental Challenge in Measuring Sprawl: Which Land Should Be Considered?
The Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2004: An Assessment of Progress on Housing in the Greater Boston Area
The Implementation and Utilization of Stabilization Funds by Local Governments in Massachusetts
The Largest Employers in the City of Boston: 1996 - 1997
The Largest Private Employers 2001
The Marine Science and Technology Industry
The Massachusetts DNA Database: Getting Started
The Massachusetts Health Care Revolution: A Local Start for Universal Access
The Miscallocation of Housing Under Rent Control
The Missing Link
The Multiple Dimensions of Trust in Resident/Police Relations in Boston
The Myth of Home Rule: Local Power in Greater Boston
The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market
The New England-China Relationship in 2005
The New Face of Greater Boston: Meeting the Needs of Immigrants
The New Safety Net: How the Tax Code Helped Low-Income Working Families During the Early 2000s
The North American Naturalization Gap: An Institutional Approach to Citizenship Acquisition in the United States and Canada
The Origins of Community-Based Environmental Protection: Evidence from the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act
The Origins of Women's Activism: New York and Boston, 1797-1840
The Perception and Valuation of the Risks of Climate Change: A Rational and Behaviorial Blend
The Politics of Rehabilitation
The Potential Economic Impact of Increasing the Minimum Wage in Massachusetts
The Potential for Pedagogical Expertise in a Whole School Early Literacy Model
The Principal and the Academic Imperative
The Revival of Commuter Rail: The Boston Experience
The Rise of the Skilled City
The Role of Community Involvement in Implementing Living Wage Ordinances
The Roles of Race, Class, and Residential Preferences in the Neighborhood Racial Composition of Middle-Class Blacks and Whites
The Social and Economic Costs of Employee Misclassification in Construction
The State of the Nation's Housing 2005
The Tax Revolt in Massachusetts: Revolution and Reason
The Varieties of CitiStat
The Zone of Vulnerability: Poor and Working Class Families in Boston
Timeliness of Childhood Immunizations: A State-Specific Analysis
Too Many Parents? Part A: Governance of Boston's Rose Kennedy Greenway and Part B: Making a Conservancy Work
Transitions at DTA: Homeless Pilot Programs at the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance (2003-2005)
Transportation at the Millennium: In Search of a Megaproject Lens
Troubled Water? Acquiescence, Conflict, and the Politics of Place in Watershed Management
Tufts University’s Involvement in Public School Desegregation in Boston, Massachusetts, 1960-1980
U.S. Cities in the 'World City Network'
Understanding the School Experiences of Six Learning Adaptive Behavior Students in a Boston Public Middle School
Unequal Exposure to Ecological Hazards 2005: Environmental Injustices in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Urban Growth and Housing Supply
Urban Planning, Community Participation, and the Roxbury Master Plan in Boston
Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio
Water, Water Everywhere: Dare I Drink A Drop?
Weatherizing the Homes of Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program Clients: A Programmatic Assessment
Welfare Reform and Neighborhoods: Race and Civic Participation
Welfare Reform, Work Requirements and Employment Barriers
What Progress Has Been Made in Meeting the Needs of Seriously Maltreated Children? The Course of 200 Cases Through the Boston Juvenile Court
Who Lives Downtown?
Who Supports Tobacco Excise Taxes? Factors Associated With Towns’ and Individuals’ Support in Massachusetts
Why Are Smart Cities Getting Smarter?
Why Are the Nurses Crying? Restructuring, Power, and Control in an American Hospital
Why Do Households Without Children Support Local Public Schools?
Wildlands and Woodlands: A Vision for the Forests of Massachusetts
Windfalls, Wipeouts, Givings, and Takings in Dramatic Redevelopment Projects: Bargaining for Better Zoning on Density, Views, and Public Access
Workplace Violence: Wakefield Responds
Writing Over Time in Urban Schools
Youth Voices as Change Agents: Moving Beyond the Medical Model in School-Based Health Center Practice

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