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What is Governor-Elect Charlie Baker's attitude toward the built environment? I'm not sure, but there are hints: He lives in a handsome 134 year old house built up to the street in a town square. Compare that to the last republican to beat Martha Coakley in statewide office. Before Scott Brown...

Salem has quite a lot of recent, current, and planned development for a small city with limited transportation connections. A city website (buildingsalem.com) lists some of what is going on: Blubber Hollow roadway improvements – $1.5 million Canal Street improvements – $16 million...

Losing LL Bean seemed like a big blow to downtown Portland, where it otherwise isn't easy to find practical items like the clothing Bean sells. But Portland never ceases to impress me: Reny's is moving into the adjacent spaces vacated by Bean and Olympia Sports...

How does one go about landing a planning internship in the Boston area? I've been in Maine for almost two years so my network is pretty thin down here.

Where can I find a good written history of Government Center and Scollay Square?

The Portland Public Market could have brought life to this corporate dead zone. This would have been a better place for it.

I just noticed today that steel is rising for the Osher Map Library addition to the Glickman Library. You can watch its progress in these webcams: http://osher-map.usm.maine.edu/ http://wishcamper1.usm.maine.edu/ The library has an interesting recent history. There's a small exhibit with...

CBS's final episode of the post-apocalyptic drama Jericho featured Boston's John Hancock Tower as the headquarters of Jennings & Rall in the Allied States of America's new capital, Cheyenne, Wyoming.

http://www.theforecaster.net/story.php?storyid=13751&ftype=search Former Public Market eyed for arts center By Kate Bucklin (published: February 14, 2008) PORTLAND ? The former Portland Public Market in the Bayside neighborhood is being considered as a location for an arts and education center...

Is it closed?

This is why. I'd become accustomed to the steady stream of evidence of Boston's neighborhoods declining in vibrancy, diversity of retail and nightlife and the invasion of chain stores and bank branches where weird and local places previously dominated. Don't get me wrong, Boston is...

...is a horrendously ugly campus. I know they are working to make some needed changes to improve it physically, such as moving the library entrance to face the campus. They should remove most of the surface parking now that they have the garage. The placement of some of the buildings really...

From Local.live.com. I think this is new.

Moving to Portland There's a fair chance I will attend USM's planning masters program as soon as January. I'll have some specific questions when a definite relocation approaches. Mainly I want to know which areas near USM should be avoided. I plan to live car-free and dirt cheap at first.

Are there any plans to move it closer to downtown? I thought I heard something about that.

1. Remove the walls around the ground floor windows of the Boston Public Library extension. Next?

I've been giving some thought to the MBTA bus system, possibly in anticipation of a GIS project, and put this on my little website. http://_________.googlepages.com/keymbtabusroutes I've heard it mentioned that the MBTA has considered adding a handful of key bus routes to its subway map...

Ron, you can drop that Charlie Card off at my apartment. http://boston.metro.us/metro/local/article/Dont_toss_those_CharlieTickets_after_all/6813.html Don?t toss those CharlieTickets after all by christina wallace / metro boston FEB 6, 2007 BOSTON.?Ron Newman has a new hobby. In the past...

Anyone know how one will acquire a Charlie Card (rather than Charlie Ticket) for January?