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This is reminder to everyone that the nominations period for the 2020 aB Awards is open through the end of the month! Still are several categories with no or very few nominations! Some of these are "worst" categories, so maybe it's a good thing that nominations are sparse! Check out the...

DCR has plans to calm another metro parkway, Hammond Pond in Newton. https://mass.streetsblog.org/2021/01/22/dcr-planning-another-parkway-road-diet-in-newton/

Yang has been getting a lot of press because he's known outside the city. I know many folks have high esteem for his pragmatic outside-the-box thinking. But he's getting some criticism from the YIMBY crowd for this:

All members are encouraged to nominate a Boston area infrastructure project completed in 2020 that they believe is deserving of special recognition for its negative impact on the urban environment. Infrastructure includes public transit, roads & bridges, port & airport facilities, utilities...

Nominate your favorite photo by an archBOSTON member posted on the forum in 2020. Please share the photo or a link to the post with the photo and credit to the photographer in your nomination.

Nominate what you believe is the most detrimental vacant lot in the Boston area.

All members are encouraged to nominate a Boston area infrastructure project completed in 2020 that they believe is deserving of special recognition for its positive impact on the urban environment. Infrastructure includes public transit, roads & bridges, port & airport facilities, utilities...

All members are encouraged to nominate an active proposal for an infrastructure project in the Boston area that is not yet under construction that they believe could make the biggest negative impact on the urban environment. Infrastructure includes public transit, roads & bridges, port &...

All members are encouraged to nominate an active proposal for an infrastructure project in the Boston area that is not yet under construction that they believe could make the biggest positive impact on the urban environment. Infrastructure includes public transit, roads & bridges, port &...

All members are encouraged to nominate a Boston area building development completed in 2020 that they believe is deserving of special recognition for its negative impact on the built environment.

All members are encouraged to nominate a Boston area building development completed in 2020 that they believe is deserving of special recognition for its positive impact on the built environment.

All members are encouraged to nominate an active proposal for a building site in the Boston area that is not yet under construction that they believe would make the built environment demonstrably worse than what is currently on the site or in the neighborhood.

All members are encouraged to nominate an active proposal for a building site in the Boston area that is not yet under construction that they believe could make the biggest positive impact on the built environment.

Members are encouraged to nominate an existing building, park or other piece of infrastructure in the Boston area that they believe diminishes the urban or built environment. Nominate features that have attributes that, in your opinion, should not be replicated and should serve as a model for...

Members are encouraged to nominate an existing building, park, or other piece of infrastructure in the Boston area that they believe makes a positive and integral contribution to the built or urban environment. Nominate features that you believe deserve special recognition and possess attributes...

Welcome to the 2020 Annual archBoston Awards! This subforum will be used for discussing the categories and nominating projects. The neighboring subforum will be used once we have collected enough nominations to run votes in each category. This year, we are keeping the same categories as last...

There’s been a lot of political angst over driving in Paris over the last few years. Here’s the latest in the city’s plans to restrict automobiles: https://t.co/aijA834aYZ

The deal is supposedly done. We shall all find out soon the impacts on the UK economy and society. When does Scotland exit? When does Ireland unify? This seems like the "end of the beginning." For what it's worth, I get a lot of my Brexit news and thought from (firmly in the "Brexit was a bad...

DeLeo on his way out? If so he'd be breaking the tradition of MA House Speakers leaving office due to federal indictment. If he does decide to head to academia (and what I'm sure is a big-ass windfall from NU), there will be a leadership fight. His anointed successor Ron Mariano is even more...

What do folks think of the nominees thus far? From an urban policy standpoint, we have some names already, with Fudge at HUD and Buttigieg at DOT. Here are links to the Transition website, which is a flak page, but can be a jump-point for other research: Climate Team Domestic Policy Team...