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Arrowstreet Walking Tour: East Boston
We traveled across Boston Harbor via water taxi last week for the first of our summer walking tours. East Boston is becoming one of the hottest neighborhoods in the city, and underutilized land on the waterfront is being made accessible to the public at a number of new developments. Our tour weaved through the neighborhood, stopping at three new mixed-use…
USGBC Advocacy BBQ
Will we see you on Thursday, July 28th for the USGBC Advocacy BBQ at the Old West Church in Cambridge? The event starts at 5:30 pm and tours of the old church (home of CABA) will be available.
Workforce Housing and Innovation Tenants
BisNow’s “The Future of Cambridge: Innovation, Community Engineering and the Spread of the Kendall Square Phenomenon,” moderated by our old friend Rich McKinnon, was an interesting, insightful discussion between public (Tom Evans, the Executive Director of the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority, and Iram Farooq, Assistant City Manager of the City of Cambridge), and private (Alex Twining, CEO Twining Properties, and Lawrence…
Boston Public Library Book Mosaic
As part of our work at the Boston Public Library’s Central Library in Copley Square, our graphics team designed a mosaic featuring an interpretation of the City of Boston created entirely out of hardcover books. After developing a template to determine sizes, colors, and quantities, we sourced over 1000 books, which were purchased from a local used bookshop, or donated…
What Is Density Anyway?
There are a lot of people talking about density these days. Is it good and important for sustainability? Or is it bad and hurts property values? When we talk about density, we rarely define it, but it clearly means very different things to different people. During a recent ULI Technical Assistance Panel I was part of in Provincetown, this really came…