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Recent articles, essays and papers

Jane Jacobs and the book that inspired a revolution, Grist, November 15, 2011

An urban legacy in need of renewal, The Boston Globe, November 12, 2011

Biting the Bullet (Train): Moving Forward with “HSR”, Citiwire, October 14, 2011

Can High Speed Rail Be Saved? The Infrastructurist, October 6, 2011

Deval Patrick -- Tea Party champion? The Angle, The Boston Globe, September 8, 2011

The cycle of life: how bike-sharing might tame Boston's notorious drivers, The Angle, The Boston Globe, July 22, 2011

To help towns combat sprawl, rewrite of state zoning law is overdue, The Angle, The Boston Globe, May 24, 2011

Worcester's Next Steps, This Land, The Boston Globe, April 29, 2011

Space frontiers, This Land, The Boston Globe, April 24, 2011

Processing process, This Land, The Boston Globe, April 14, 2011

Design Research and Harvard Square: Modern living, back in the day, This Land, The Boston Globe, March 14, 2011

Paying the right price for parking, This Land, The Boston Globe, March 14, 2011

Zombie subdivisions and post-bust detritus, This Land, The Boston Globe, February 10, 2011

Smart growth's past, present, and future, Planning magazine, January 15, 2011

10 reasons to be nice to pedestrians in 2011, This Land, Community Voices blog, The Boston Globe / boston.com, December 29, 2010

Atlanta property taxes: Making tweaks, Atlanta Journal Constitution, December 26, 2010

All climate politics is local, This Land, Community Voices blog, The Boston Globe / boston.com, December 13, 2010

In Quest for Revenue, Cities Turning to PILOTs, Citiwire, December 05, 2010

Processing Urban Renewal, Architecture Boston, November 2010

Red light, green light -- how about nothing at all? This Land, Community Voices blog, The Boston Globe / boston.com, October 14, 2010

Preserving modernism in Boston: making the case, This Land, Community Voices blog, The Boston Globe / boston.com, July 22, 2010

After battle, park at Harvard site manages to please, This Land, Community Voices blog, The Boston Globe / boston.com, June 30, 2010

Improving slums, one step at a time, GlobalPost, March 31, 2010

Chickens in the City, Next American City, March 11, 2010

Filling in the gaps in the city, op-ed essay, The Boston Globe, December 17, 2009

Talk at The Skyscraper Museum, New York City, October 1, 2009

Getting to green: smaller, denser, walkable living, book review, The Boston Globe, November 18, 2009

Arrested Development, The Boston Globe, September 6, 2009

In 2 visions, a blueprint to a livable city, op-ed essay, The Boston Globe, August 20, 2009

A Government Retrofit: Federal Coordination, Citiwire, May 17, 2009

Wright's Fallingwater appeals to many senses, The Boston Globe, April 19, 2009

Getting Down to Business In Sustainability 2.0, Citiwire, March 13, 2009

A President for Cities, But Where’s the Money? Citiwire, November 16, 2008

Climate Change Challenge: Collaborating to Adapt, Citiwire, August 2, 2008

Forward to Suburban Transformations by Paul Lukez (Princeton Architectural Press 2008)

We are not alone, article on international housing affordability crisis, Architecture Boston magazine, March 2007

No time to leave downtown Boston, essay in the Hartford Courant, January 21, 2007

Agencies working together, op-ed essay in The Boston Globe, December 19, 2006

Urbanism is good for the planet, Natick Bulletin & Tab, October 27, 2006

Mitigating Circumstances, article in Architecture Boston magazine on East Boston and megaprojects


The Big Problem, Hartford Courant essay on the Big Dig

Back to Connecticut, an essay in Place in the Hartford Courant [in archives, published July 9]

Zoning out, Perspectives essay in Boston Globe Sunday Magazine [June 4]

Connecting the dots on high gas prices,
PLANetizen op-ed essay

The Density Dilemma, a Lincoln Institute working paper

The State of Smart Growth, 2005 research grant, Boston Society of Architects

South Boston and gentrification
, Boston Sunday Globe Magazine May 2005

Boston Globe Big Dig series


Boston Globe series on the impact of terrorism


Planning the Fragmented Metropolis
, Governing Greater Boston, Rappaport Institute of Greater Boston, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University