"non-profit art organization that provides emerging artists with the opportunity for fiscal sponsorship and a laboratory where they can experiment with new forms and concepts without the pressures of a commercial environment. Functioning as an umbrella, the Berwick supports two established programs, the Artist-in-Research Residency Program and the Public Art Incubator, as well as many semi-permanent programs and one-time events."

I'll be participating in a Next American City-sponsored event at the Mills Gallery in Boston in 1/22. Come have a drink and hear me babble.

utterly non-exhaustive list of local papers in the Boston area

mapping from MAPC & TBF

annual rebuilding of fish weirs on the ancient coastline in boston common, complete with ritual and ceremony.

01/08 - radical group with no constituency speaks out: "we want an inclusive, comprehensive neighborhood plan based on what the residents want to protect and enhance." no word on what that is

6/7/2004, community plan from process harvard agreed to bow to

2/11/2008, Community Builders document describing new project

1875, '85, '90, '99, 1909, '16, '25 in pdf

"Another unforgettable remembrance was the aroma from the Brighton Abattoir, especially when the wind was from the northeast."

2001 obids for founder of MIT Visual Studies program

maybe one day i'll have time to go to a movie.

"Lisa Greenfield is an artist and urban planner."

MBTA puts up a website.

Green Line (E) showing on-street ROW. slow(er) but space efficient

felix gonzalez-torres show at the carpenter center

Flash visualizer for social/spatial/economic indicators in greater Boston. from MIT

wtf

short history of urban renewal in boston. probably unreliable in details, has good chart of urban renewal areas

The city of Boston may convey to the BRA, for urban renewal, [the parcel bounded by] Sterling, Marble, Warwick and Westminster streets and commonly known as Madison park. Approved August 22, 1966.

"Established in 1967, CHAPA is the only statewide group which represents all interests in the housing field, including non-profit and for-profit developers, homeowners, tenants, bankers, real estate brokers, property managers, government officials, and ot

Fd. '66, builds/preserves low income housing

“[NC] will always, always do affordable housing,” she adds, “but I think we will look at more mixed-income developments in order to bring back the retail and business sector. You need to have expendable income here in order for there to be retail ac

10.43 mi

Report from the rappaport on Dudley Sq retail health

Hope VI all up in your eye.

do not click: literally the ugliest website ever.

Eminant domain all up on the Ferdinand Building

25-yo community development corp. in roxbury/dudley sq. renovated palladio hall, other bldgs

streetcar/bus service, elevated service 1901-87.

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Saturn is missing from the Cambridge Public Library, causing children to throw tantrums in the reference room.

"campus map that shows land owned by the thirty-two colleges and universities in the inner Boston area"

plan to built BRT circle line in Boston-Cambridge-Somerville-Everett-Chelsea

Paul Rudolph has (at least) two buildings in downtown Boston. Who knew? note: archinform's g.map feature is pretty good.

Smoot became president of the ISO! hilarious

Review of Sert's 'Can our Cities Survive?': "The Sert group propose to house the city's people in skyscrapers, surrounded by open space, ... [a] single solution for a modern city's two greatest dangers, congestion and bombing."

great urban projs and investigations, mostly 'round Boston. [kanarinka: I was checking this out this weekend, before you subscribed to me. {!}]

look, a potted plant! (archs: john andrews, anderson, baldwin)

sim projs as FITNR, but his about page actually has "The desert of the real itself" quote from Baudrillard. I only obliquely reference it!

The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the tools we use to desig

if you're looking for someone to have sex with, you live in the city; if you've got someone to have sex with, you live in the suburbs.

Arch & Urbanism: This area is concerned with the theory and history of the form and design of cities, including the description and transformation of settlement patterns, the imaging of urban environments, morphological and typological studies, relationsh

Chinatown bus from NYC to Boston

think tank/edu org on urban policy