Rappaport Institute Policy Notes Database

Rappaport Institute Policy Notes Database

Regionalism

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A New Paradigm for Housing in Greater Boston

Boston Bound: A Comparison of Boston's Legal Powers with Those of Six Other Major American Cities

Bringing Smart Growth to Massachusetts: Douglas Foy and the Office for Commonwealth Development

Chapter 40R School Cost Analysis and Proposed Smart Growth School Cost Insurance Supplement

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

Job Sprawl and the Spatial Mismatch Between Blacks and Jobs

New Estimates of the Demand for Urban Green Space: Implications for Valuing the Environmental Benefits of Boston's Big Dig Project

On the Demand for City Living

Regulating Subdivisions in Massachusetts: Practices and Outlooks

The Fundamental Challenge in Measuring Sprawl: Which Land Should Be Considered?

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

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