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Resource Guide
Websites, agencies, advocacy groups, reports, books
Prepared for the ABN Town Meetings, Spring 2002

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"Popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge brings." -- James Madison

For people who are interested in more information about the Town Meeting topics, or want to get more involved in action, these are just a few of the organizations, agencies and information resources available, many of which were used to compile the Fact Sheets for the meetings. Each of these will lead the way to others.

GENERAL
TRANSPORTATION
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, HEALTH IMPACTS
LAND USE PLANNING AND POLICY, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
HOUSING
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

GENERAL

• The Alliance of Boston Neighborhoods web site has documents of interest on these topics.
• The Public Conversations Project provides valuable guidance on the process of organizing a discussion among people of different views, based on open expression and honest inquiry.
• The United States Census Bureau is a great source of information on demographic, transportation, economic, housing, and economic matters. The 2000 census data are being analyzed and released.
• Internet searches on Google for specific topics will return a wealth of information on official, academic, and private activities in these and related topics.

TRANSPORTATION

• City of Boston
  • Boston Transportation Department
    Boston Transportation Fact Book and Neighborhood Profiles
    (AccessBoston 2000-2010)
    
  • Boston Redevelopment Authority
    Zoning; Article 80 Project Review Process (PDF file)
    
• Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority MBTA
  • Capital Investment Program FY 2001-FY 2006
  • Taking the T to the Next Level of Progress:
    MBTA Blue Ribbon Committee Report on Forward Funding, April 2000
  • FY2002 Final Service Plan
  • Program for Mass Transportation
    Reverse Commute Study draft May, 2001
• Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization
  • Regional Transportation Plan 2000-2025
    Anne McGahan 617-973-7100, mcgahan [at] ctps.org
  • "Transportation Improvement Program and Air Quality Conformity Determination FY 2002-2007"
  • "Suburban Public Transportation" undated
  • "The Demographics of Commuting in Greater Boston" August l998.
• Central Transportation Planning Staff
  (Boston Region transportation and land use data and maps)
  • http://www.ctps.org
  • http://www.ctps.org/bostonmpo/mpo/ctpsn.htm
• Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation and Construction
  • "Massachusetts Transportation Facts 2001"
• US Department of Transportation
  • Federal Transit Administration, Livable Communities Program
  • "Improving Pedestrian Access to Transit: An Advocacy Handbook."
    By WalkBoston, 1998
• Bureau of Transportation Statistics
• Federal Highway Administration
  • Transportation and Community and System Preservation Pilot Program
  • Federal Transportation Equity Act l998
• Conservation Law Foundation
  • Phone: 617-350-0990
  • Road Kill: How Solo Driving Runs Down the Economy
  • The Automobile Index (statistics on car use and impacts)
  • Environmental Living: CLF's Blueprint for Action
  • City Routes, City Rights, l998
• Bikes not Bombs
  • Newsletter: Spoke-&-Word
    59 Amory St. #103, Roxbury, MA 02119
• Surface Transportation Policy Project
  • http://www.transact.org/
  • San Diego Earth Times May 2000: "Traffic congestion driven by sprawl"
• Victoria Transport Policy Institute
  • http://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm49.htm
• World Business Council for Sustainable Development
• Commission for Integrated Transport, UK
• Boston Transportation Resources
• Campaign on Auto Pollution, International Center for Technology Assessment
• University of California, Berkeley
  • Planning for Residential Parking: A Guide for Developers and Planners
    Resources for Parking Planning and Policy
• Texas Transportation Institute
  • 2002 Urban Mobility Study
• Michigan Land Use Institute
• Association for Commuter Transportation
  • Rethinking Parking
• Transportation Management Associations (TMA)
• City of Cambridge Community Development Department, 2000
  • Cambridge Traffic Calming Program
• Transportation Choices Coalition
• Zipcar
• Philly Car Share
• Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took over America and How We Can Take It Back
  Jane Holtz Kay. Crown Publishers, NY l997
• Breaking Gridlock: Moving Toward Transportation That Works
  Jim Motavalli. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2001
• "Automobile Dependence: The Irresistible Force?"
  Jeff Kenworthy and Peter Newman
  Institute for Science and Technology Policy, Murdoch University, 1993
• Cities and Automobile Dependence: An International Sourcebook
  Jeff Kenworthy and Peter Newman, l989
• "Integrated Impacts of Climate Change upon Infrastructure Systems and Services in the Boston Metropolitan Area." - World Resource Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2001
  • www.globalwarming.net
    World Resource Review, PO Box 5275, Woodridge, IL
    60517-0275
• "North-South Rail Link: Review of the Intercity Ridership Analysis"
  • Transport Research Institute, London Feb 2002
• Areas's Busiest Public Transportation Lines (average passengers per weekday)
  • Boston Business Journal, The List, July 14-20, 2000; source MBTA,
    compiled by Patrick Lawlor
• Rites of Way: The Politics of Transportation in Boston and the US City
  Alan Lupo, Boston: Little, Brown, l971
• The Streetcar Conspiracy: How General Motors Deliberately Destroyed Public Transit
  Bradford Snell, "The New Electric Railway Journal" Autumn 1995.
  His history of GM to be published in 2002 by Alfred A. Knopf.

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, HEALTH IMPACTS

• Boston Public Health Commission
  • "Air Pollution and Human Health: A Summary of the Scientific Evidence"
    Prepared by Susannah Foster for the Boston Public Health Commission and the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School
• Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
• Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts Air Quality
• Federal Environmental Protection Agency
  • Cumulative Exposure Project -- Air Pollution
  • Particulate Matter: An Introduction
  • Criteria Pollutants
  • Nonattainment Areas for All Criteria Pollutants
  • EPA air toxics
• CLIMB: Climate's Long-term Impacts on Metro Boston
  • A Collaborative Project of Tufts University, Boston University, and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC); funded by the US EPA
    Executive Summary
• Environmental League of Massachusetts
• Michigan Transportation and Land Use Coalition
• Sierra Club - Massachusetts
• International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
  • Local Government Guide: Uncovering Auto Subsidies
• MASSPIRG Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group
  • "Dangers of Diesel: How Diesel Soot and Other Toxics Increase Americans' Risk of Cancer" 2002 (PDF file)
• Roxbury air quality monitoring station report
• American Lung Association
  • State of the Air
• Boston Climate Action Network
• Environmental News Service: Air Pollution/li>
• Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management
• Climate Action Network
• Electronic Green Journal
• Google searches:
  • "small particulate matter"
  • "pollution, lung cancer"

LAND USE PLANNING AND POLICY, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

• City of Boston
  • Boston Redevelopment Authority
    • Boston Zoning Code and maps
  • Boston Department of Neighborhood Development
• City of Cambridge
  • http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/~CDD/commplan/index.html
• Metropolitan Area Planning Council
  • Metropolitan Perspectives 2002
• Massachusetts Department of Environmental Affairs
  • Community Preservation
• Center for Urban and Regional Policy, Northeastern University
  
• Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston
  • "Moving Past Sprawl in New England: The Emerging Agenda for Smart Growth"
    Rebecca Barnes, Chief Planner, Boston Redevelopment Authority
  • "Living Together: The Challenges of Growing Smarter in Greater Boston,"
    Stephanie Pollack, Conservation Law Foundation, April 29, 2002
• Urban Land Institute
• Sierra Club
• Trust for Public Land
• http://www.patternlanguage.com/index.htm
  http://www.patternlanguage.com/townplanning/townplanning.htm
• Congress of New Urbanism
• New Village: Building Sustainable Cultures
• Smart Growth America
  • Measuring Sprawl and its Impact- The Character & Consequences of Metropolitan Expansion
• Smart Growth Network
  • http://www.smartgrowth.org/news/article.asp?art=2172&state=22
• New Ecology
  • 160 Second Street, Cambridge, MA 02142
  • Proceedings: Regional Sustainable Development Forum 2000
• Earth Policy Institute: Building an Economy for the Earth
• Compendium of Sustainable Development Indicator Initiatives and Publications
• Sustainable Communities Network
• Sustainable Step New England
• Resource Renewal Institute, San Francisco
• Washington Regional Network for Livable Communities
• Sprawlwatch
• Sprawl-Busters
• Alex Marshall writings
• http://www.planetizen.com (e-newsletter of articles published on development issues)
• http://www.cyburbia.org/index.html
• http://www.citistates.com/
• The Brookings Institution
  • Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
    1775 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
    Living On The Edge: Decentralization Within Cities In The 1990s
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Laboratory For Energy and the Environment
• Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe
  • (Health impacts of air pollutants)
    http://www.rec.org/REC/Publications/SO2/chapter21.html
• National Academy of Public Administration
• Institute of Ecosystem Studies
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities
  Jane Jacobs. New York, Random House, l961
• Building Cities that Work
  Edmund P. Fowler
  McGill-Queen's University Press: Montreal, l992
• The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate
  Oliver Gillham. Island Press
  (Center for Resource Economics): Washington, 2002
• Regionalization search (Google)

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

• Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs
• US Environmental Protection Agency
• Federal Highway Administration
• Alternatives for Community and Environment
  • 2343 Washington Street, Roxbury, MA 02119
  • Greater Boston Environmental Justice Network
• Sustainable Communities Network
• Harvard University Working Group on Environmental Justice
• Envirohealthaction

HOUSING

• City of Boston
  • Department of Neighborhood Development
    • Consolidated Plan for Community Development, July 1, l998 -- June 30, 2002, May l998. Based on l990 Census.
    • "Leading the Way: Boston's Housing Strategy" FY 2001-2003
      City of Boston report l997
    • "Midpoint Progress Report on Leading the Way Initiatives
      City of Boston, 2002
    • Housing Affordability Annual Report l999
    • "Real Estate Trends: Annual Reports" (housing sales, prices, patterns)
    • "Housing Today: Boston's Challenges and Opportunities" l998
    • "Taking Charge: A Housing Strategy for Boston" The Advisory Panel on Housing Report to the Mayor, February l996
    • Neighborhood Housing Trust Annual Report l998
    • "A Housing Crisis: Competing in the 21st Century"
      Speech, Charlotte Richie, Director of DND, Metropolitan Affairs
      Coalition/Boston College Citizen Seminars, December 9, 1999
  • Boston Redevelopment Authority
    • Background on Boston's Housing Supply and Demand. Revised March 27, 2000
    • Effects of Seaport Development on Neighborhood Housing Demand, Dec 1998
    • Geographic Size of Boston and Its Neighborhoods with l990 Population and
      Density, using l990 Census data and MAPINFO GIS
    • How College Students Impact Boston's Economy and Neighborhoods."
      Insight Report, November 1, 1995
    • "Dormitory bed increase welcome in Boston's hot housing market"
      Insight Report, January 2000
    • Recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Housing Finance of the City of
      Boston" Nicolas Retsinas and H. Jay Sarles, Co-Chairs, March 2002
• Boston Housing Authority
• Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development
• Massachusetts Housing Partnership Fund
• Metropolitan Area Planning Council
  • "Decade of Change: Growth Trends in the Greater Boston Area from l990 to 2000" - MAPC 2001
• Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • http://www.huduser.org/datasets/il/fmr02/index.html
    (HUD's FY 2002 Income Limits for subsidized housing)
  • More
  • "l998 American Housing Survey for the Boston Consolidated Statistical Area"
    HUD and Census Bureau
• Boston census information
• Greater Boston Real Estate Board
  • Boston Housing Production Task Force, Rental Housing Association
    "No Time to Lose: Stimulating Rental Housing Production in Boston"
    Dec. 16, 1999
• National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
• Housing and Land Use Studies
• National Housing Institute
  • Shelterforce Bookstore
• Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University
  • "The State of the Nation's Housing l997"
  • "The State of the Nation's Housing 2000"
• Citizens Housing and Planning Association
• Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations
• Local Initiatives Support Corporation (supporting Community Development Corporations)
• Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation
  • "Rising Rents, Closing Doors: A Profile of Housing in Allston Brighton"
    Spring 1999
• McCormack Institute at UMass Boston, Center for Social Policy
  • "Situation Critical. Report 2000." September, 2000
  • "After Welfare Reform: Voices from the Community." December 2001
  • "Ending Family Homelessness in the Commonwealth by 2005"
    One Family Campaign
  • "A Preliminary Look at Boston's Homeless Population" January 2000
• Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance (MAHA)
  • "CRA for Mortgage Lenders" Thomas Callahan. Banker and Tradesman,
    Jan 14, 2002.
• National Low Income Housing Coalition
  • Out of Reach 2001: America's Growing Wage-Rent Disparity -- Massachusetts
• Greater Boston Interfaith Organization
• Mass. Housing Corp.
• Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership
• "Boston Metropatterns: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability in Greater Boston" Metropolitan Area Research Corporation and Citizens Housing and Planning Association, Oct 2001.
• "Getting Serious about Housing us All" - Neal Peirce, Washington Post, July 7, 2002
• "Inclusionary Zoning: Lessons Learned in Massachusetts"
  • National Housing Conference: Affordable Housing Policy Review, Jan 2002
    Clark Ziegler: Lessons Learned in Massachusetts
    Philip B. Herr, "Zoning for Affordability in Massachusetts: An Overview"
    Michael Stone, et al., l998, "Housing Affordability." In A Profile of Housing in Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts, Donahue Institute
• Michael Stone, Shelter Poverty: New Ideas on Housing Affordability.
  Temple University Press, Philadelphia, l993
• Repairing the Housing Ladder: Toward a New Housing Policy Paradigm (PDF file) - Howard Husock
• Boston Tenant Coalition
  "Turning New Growth into Affordable Housing. A Plan to Create 10,000 Affordable Homes in Boston by 2005" April 2000
• The Center for Urban and Regional Policy, Northeastern University, Feb 2001
  "A New Paradigm for Housing in Greater Boston."
• Metropolitan Affairs Coalition
  "A Housing Crisis: Competing in the 21st Century" December 1999
• Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth
  • 'The Story of Household Incomes in the l990s,' March 2001
  • "The Rise in Income Inequality in Massachusetts and New England" August 2001
  • "Home Ownership in Mass: A New Assessment" January 2002
  • "The Road Ahead: Emerging Threats to Workers, Families and the Massachusetts
    Economy" Report, 1998
  • "Why an Average Family Can't Afford an Average Home Anymore"
    CommonWealth, Spring 2002
• The Boston Foundation
  • The Wisdom of our Choices 2000 (Indicators Project)
    "Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2002" October 1, 2002
• Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
• Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC)
  for 101 cities and towns of Metropolitan Area Planning Council region.
• "Homelessness in Mass: Are State-funded Resources Allocated and Coordinated Effectively?" Research Policy Team, Mass EOAF, Dec 20, 1999
• Citizens Housing and Planning Association
  • l999 Housing Guidebook
  • "Ensuring the Long-Term Affordability of Homeownership Units in the City of Boston" Feb. 2000 - A report to Mayor Thomas Menino
• "Realizing the American Dream: Working Toward Affordable Housing for All"
  • The O'Brien-Gabrieli Housing Plan for Massachusetts
• Boston Society of Architects, Task Force on Homelessness, November 1989
  • "Meeting the Challenge of Homelessness"
• Metropolitan Area Research Corporation
  • 617-379-3926
  • American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality by Myron Orfield
    with the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
  • "Boston Region" supplement (pamphlet)
• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
• Boston Homes: The Complete Guide (weekly real estate newspaper)
• Urban Institute of Washington DC l999
  • "The Promise of Housing Mobility Programs"
    

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

• City of Boston
  • Boston Redevelopment Authority
    • Boston Zoning Code and maps
    • Policy Development and Research (several reports listed here; there are many more)
    • see also archives in Boston Public Library Government Documents Government Documents State and Local Database
    • Zoning; Article 80 Project Review Process
    • Publications 2001 BRA Policy Development and Research (List of BRA reports)
    • "Boston's Strong Economy 2001"
    • " Manufacturing in Boston 2002: Product Types and Locations in Boston and its Neighbors Report # 553
    • "Boston's Industrial Spaces: Industrial Land and Building Spaces in Boston and its Neighborhoods" February 2002 Report #552
    • "The Economy" l997?
    • "History of Boston's Economy: Growth and Transition, l970-1998"
    • "Boston's Economy 2000: A Strong Economy Greets the New Millennium"
    • "Boston's Strong Office Market; Update" May, 1999
    • "Opportunities for Retail Stores in Boston's Neighborhoods" Melvin F. Levine & Associates, Inc. December 5, 1991
    • "A Ten-Minute University on Retail Revitalization" Melvin F. Levine & Associates, Inc. undated
    • "The Linkage between Office Development and Housing Costs in the City of Boston" Jerold Kayden, Karl Case, Robert Pollard, Jan. 1986
    • "The Largest Private Employers in Boston: 2001"
    • "Municipal and Institutional Relations within Boston: The Benefits of Section 112 of the Federal Housing Act of l961 by Julian H. Levi, University of Chicago Press, l962
    • "Medical Center in the South Cove: A Study for the Development of the New England Medical Center and its Neighborhood." Kevin Lynch, Dec. 1955
    • Back Streets Program, Boston Industrial Development Financing Authority (BIDFA)
  • Department of Neighborhood Development
    • "Citizen Summary: Federal FY 2001 Action Plan for Community
      Development"
    • Boston Main Streets
      "Celebrating Five Years of Collaboration and Partnership: Boston Main Streets 2000"
  • Office of Business Development
• Boston City Planning Board
  • "The Twenty-first Annual Report for the Year ending December 31, 1935"
    Boston Public Library, Research Microfiche
• City of Boston Archives
  30 Millstone Road, Hyde Park 02136 617-364-8679
• Boston Empowerment Zone
• Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development
  • "Organizing for Economic Development: Municipal and Regional Options" l997
• Boston Municipal Research Bureau
  • "Boston Facts and Figures: A Statistical Perspective on Boston's Government and its Population, 2002 Edition"
• West Roxbury Main Streets
• Institute for Local Self-Reliance
  • http://www.newrules.org/
• ReclaimDemocracy.org
  • "The Benefits of Doing Business Locally" Jeff Milchen, l998
• The Boston Foundation
  • The Wisdom of our Choices: Boston's Indicators of Progress, Change and Sustainability, 2000
    
• Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (MassINC)
  • MassINC publications:
    • Center for Labor Market Studies: The American Dream Project
    • "The State of the American Dream in Massachusetts, 2002. May, 2002
    • "Lessons Learned: 25 Years of State Economic Policy" June 1998
    • "The Story of Household Incomes in the l990's"
    • "The Changing Workforce: Immigrants and the New Economy in Massachusetts." November 1999
    • "Questioning Authority: In semi-public agencies, accountability and autonomy clash" CommonWealth, Spring 2002
      
• Boston Society of Architects Civic Initiative
  • Creating Livable Communities: A Civic Initiative for New England
• Boston Business Journal
  • http://boston.bcentral.com
    Areas' Largest Temporary Employment Agencies, June 29-July 5, 2001
• Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, Kennedy School of Government,
  Harvard University
  • Governing Greater Boston, March 2002
• San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association
  • Proposition M and the Downtown Growth Battle. Brad Paul.
• Planning websites of other cities and states:
  • Cambridge, Mass.
  • Providence, R.I.
  • Baltimore, Md.
  • Seattle, Wash.
  • Vermont
  • http://www.trimet.org/index.shtml
  • http://www.scag.ca.gov/livable/links.htm
  • http://www.littletongov.org
• American Planning Association
  • "Is Your Community a Great Place to Live?"
• PolicyLink
• Economy.com
• National Urban League
• Redevelopment.com
  • "Articles and Documents Relating To Redevelopment. Details its Successes, Problems and Consequences"
• Redefining Progress
• National Trust for Historic Preservation National Main Street Center
• Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy
• National Community Capital Association
• National Community Reinvestment Coalition
• Economic Policy Institute
• CorpWatch: Holding Corporations Accountable
• Good Jobs First
• National Journal
• Sustainable Communities Network Home Page
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• Initiative for a Competitive Inner City
• The American Prospect
  • "The Porter Prescription." Merrill Goozner, Vol. 9 No. 38, May-June, 1998.
• Urban Institute
  • Economic Mobility in the United States
• National Alliance for Fair Employment
• American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO
  • (search "living wage")
• Community Reinvestment Act
• Pioneer Institute
• United for a Fair Economy
• University of Massachusetts, Boston
  • Political Economy Research Institute
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
• "Redevelopment: The Unknown Government: What it is. What can be done. A Report to the People of California." April 2000 (posted on www.abnboston.org )
• "Corporate handouts: a call for accountability"
  Neal Peirce, TheSeattle Times, August 19, 2002
  
• Who Rules Boston? A Citizen's Guide to Reclaiming the City
  The Boston Urban Study Group, 1984
• "Incentive Zoning in New York City: A Cost-Benefit Analysis" - Jerold Kayden
  • Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Land Policy Roundtable, Policy analysis Series Number 201. Undated
• The City is the Frontier. Charles Abrams. Harper and Row, NY. 1965.
• Urban Renewal and American Cities. Scott Greer, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Northwestern University. Bobbs-Merrill Co, Inc., NY l965
• Urban Renewal: The Record and the Controversy. James Q. Wilson, Ed. Joint Center for Urban Studies , MIT and Harvard University. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1966.
• The Rape of the Neighborhoods : and How Communities are Resisting Take-overs by Colleges, Hospitals, Churches, Businesses, and Public Agencies. William Worthy. Wm Morrow & Co, Inc., NY, l976
• The Contested City. John H. Mollenkopf. Princeton Univ Press, Princeton, NJ, 1983
• Building a New Boston: Politics and Urban Renewal l950 to 1970. Thomas O'Connor. Northeastern University Press: Boston, l993

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