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A New Paradigm for Housing in Greater Boston
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
Amenity-Based Housing Affordability Indexes
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
Boston's Industrial Spaces
Bringing Smart Growth to Massachusetts: Douglas Foy and the Office for Commonwealth Development
Changes in Mitigation: Comparing Boston's Big Dig and 1950s Urban Renewal
Chapter 40R School Cost Analysis and Proposed Smart Growth School Cost Insurance Supplement
Citizen Participation and Local Governmental Choice in Local Environmental Controversies
Civic Leadership and the Big Dig
Coming Around
Commercial Land Use in Boston
Creating an Anti-Growth Regulatory Regime: A Case from Greater Boston
Development Through Public Transit
Fear and Loathing in Massachusetts: Chapter 40B, Community Opposition, and Residential Property Value
Getting Home: Overcoming Regulatory Barriers to Housing in Greater Boston
Guarding the Town Walls: Mechanisms and Motives for Restricting Multi-family Housing in Massachusetts
I Love That City, But Which City? Urban Change and Urban Identity in Basel, Boston, and Cologne
Immigrant Homebuyers in Lawrence and Lowell, Massachusetts: Keys to Revitalization of Cities
Implementing Urban Waterfront Redevelopment in an Historic Context: A Case Study of the Boston Naval Shipyard- the Politics of Boston's Linkage Policy
Inclusionary Zoning and the Constitution
Large-Lot Housing Construction in the Greater Boston Metropolitan Area
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
Megaprojects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment
Modeling Infrastructure Vulnerabilities and Adaptation to Climate Change in Urban Systems: Methodology and Application to Metropolitan Boston
More than Shelter: Housing the People of Greater Boston
New Estimates of the Demand for Urban Green Space: Implications for Valuing the Environmental Benefits of Boston's Big Dig Project
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?
Public Projects and Citizen Participation: The Challenge of Coordinating Meaningful Public Involvement Over Time
Reflections on Community Process in the Multi-layered Communities of a Major Urban Development Project
Regulating Subdivisions in Massachusetts: Practices and Outlooks
Regulation and the Rise of Housing Prices in Greater Boston
Regulation and the Rise of Housing Prices in Greater Boston: Policy Brief
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
Sewers in the City: A Case Study of Individual-Level Mortality and Public Health Initiatives in Northampton, Massachusetts at the Turn of the Century
Social Preservationists and the Quest for Authentic Community
Space Available: The Realities of Convention Centers as Economic Development Strategy
Tax Exempt Property in Boston: Analysis of Types, Uses, and Issues
The Myth of Home Rule: Local Power in Greater Boston
The State of the Nation's Housing 2005
Troubled Water? Acquiescence, Conflict, and the Politics of Place in Watershed Management
Urban Growth and Housing Supply
Urban Planning, Community Participation, and the Roxbury Master Plan in Boston
Windfalls, Wipeouts, Givings, and Takings in Dramatic Redevelopment Projects: Bargaining for Better Zoning on Density, Views, and Public Access

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