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Urban Abundance

An Aerial Survey of Metro Boston Reveals a Regional Food System on the Rise

By Alex MacLean

June 2021, English

  Across four decades as an aerial photographer, I have been drawn to documenting agriculture for the way it reveals important clues about region, climate, topography, soil, and the passage of seasons and time. This work has increasingly focused on the connections between land use and climate change, as attention to shortening food miles—reducing the […]

Climate Change, Environment, Land Conservation

June 2021, English

  Across four decades as an aerial photographer, I have been drawn to documenting agriculture for the way it reveals important clues about region, climate, topography, soil, and the passage of seasons and time. This work has increasingly focused on the connections between land use and climate change, as attention to shortening food miles—reducing the […]

Climate Change, Environment, Land Conservation

A Cartographic Meditation

Mapping the Colorado River Basin in the 21st Century

By Zach Sugg

June 2021, English

  The Babbitt Center’s new Colorado River Basin map is available at no cost as a downloadable pdf and as a hard copy. Where is the Colorado River Basin? A novice attempting a cursory Google search will be surprised—and perhaps frustrated, confused, or a little of both—to find that there is no simple answer to that question. […]

Environment, Land Conservation, Technology and Tools, Water

June 2021, English

  The Babbitt Center’s new Colorado River Basin map is available at no cost as a downloadable pdf and as a hard copy. Where is the Colorado River Basin? A novice attempting a cursory Google search will be surprised—and perhaps frustrated, confused, or a little of both—to find that there is no simple answer to that question. […]

Environment, Land Conservation, Technology and Tools, Water

From Vision to Value

A Case Study of How Seven Danish Cities Conduct Area Development to Propel Urban Revival

Luise Noring

June 2021, English

Working Papers

City and Regional Planning, Urbanization

June 2021, English

Working Papers

City and Regional Planning, Urbanization

Research, Public Sector Policy Change, Advocacy, Philanthropy and the Private Sector Collide to Create an Affordable Housing and Economic Development Opportunity in Colorado

The Case of indieDwell

Phyllis Resnick and Jennifer Newcomer

June 2021, English

Working Papers

City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Housing, Local Government, Poverty and Inequality, Public Finance

June 2021, English

Working Papers

City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Housing, Local Government, Poverty and Inequality, Public Finance

Providing Affordable Home Ownership Opportunities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Larissa Larsen and Kumelachew Yeshitela

June 2021, English

Working Papers

Housing, Poverty and Inequality

June 2021, English

Working Papers

Housing, Poverty and Inequality

Opportunity Clusters

The Twin Cities Case Study

Andrew Guthrie, Yingling Fan, and Greg Lindsey

June 2021, English

Working Papers

City and Regional Planning, Poverty and Inequality

June 2021, English

Working Papers

City and Regional Planning, Poverty and Inequality

City Tech

Latin America and the E-Bus Revolution

By Rob Walker

June 2021, English

  At some point in the last few years, it was like a switch flipped: it became clear that the electric vehicle technology revolution is real and could have significant planning and land use impacts. For the last decade or so, the spotlight has often focused on how this cleaner energy alternative could power new […]

Infrastructure, Value Capture

June 2021, English

  At some point in the last few years, it was like a switch flipped: it became clear that the electric vehicle technology revolution is real and could have significant planning and land use impacts. For the last decade or so, the spotlight has often focused on how this cleaner energy alternative could power new […]

Infrastructure, Value Capture

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President’s Message

Expanding Upon a Legacy of Learning

By George W. McCarthy

June 2021, English

  “The mind that is not baffled is not employed.” – Wendell Berry Over the course of my career, I’ve had the opportunity to teach in many different places and contexts, from a vocational high school on the South Shore of Massachusetts to undergraduate and graduate classrooms in New York, North Carolina, England, Italy, and […]

Local Government, Technology and Tools

June 2021, English

  “The mind that is not baffled is not employed.” – Wendell Berry Over the course of my career, I’ve had the opportunity to teach in many different places and contexts, from a vocational high school on the South Shore of Massachusetts to undergraduate and graduate classrooms in New York, North Carolina, England, Italy, and […]

Local Government, Technology and Tools