UNCONVENTIONAL CONVENTIONS

Transforming ’s future

A collection of essays on the challenges Boston faces in the 21st century and ways to make the city more livable, equitable, resilient and beautiful.

1 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Social Resiliency

RESILIENCY Social Resiliency

AFFORDABILITY Compact Living

ZONING Land Use Regulation

LEADERSHIP Urban Excellence

MOBILITY Multi-Modal Transportation

INDUSTRY Industrial Integration

REGIONALISM Gateway Cities

EQUITY Social Justice

HEALTH Public Health

ARTS Arts & Culture

ECONOMY Economic inequality CONTRIBUTORS

Dan Adams is Director and Associate Professor of the School of Architecture at and founding partner, with Marie Law Adams, of Landing Studio

Marie Law Adams is a Lecturer in Urban Design in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is partner in Landing Studio

Alice Brown is Director of Water Transportation at Boston Harbor Now

Douglas Brugge is Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences at UConn Health

Michelle Danila, P.E., PTOE is a licensed civil engineer that strives to improve safety for all roadway users, especially people walking and biking, and has worked on roadway and intersection design projects throughout the United States

David Gamble is a Lecturer at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and Principal of Gamble Associates

Kate Gilbert is an artist and Executive Director at Now and There, a Boston-based public art non-profi t

Rebecca Herst is the Sustainable Solutions Lab Director at the University of Massachusetts Boston

Imari K. Paris Jeffries is the Executive Director of King Boston, a Trustee of the UMass System and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. through UMass Boston’s Higher Education Program

Matthew Kiefer is a Lecturer in Architecture at the Graduate School of Design at and practices real estate development and land use law at Goulston&Storrs

Renee Loth is former Editor of Architecture Boston magazine and contributor to the Boston Globe

Lydia Lowe is Director of the Chinatown Community Land Trust CONTRIBUTORS

Anne-Marie Lubenau is Director of the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence, a national award that recognizes transformative urban places at the social and economic impact of design

Dr. Ted Landsmark is Director of the Kitty & Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University and is on the Board of Directors of the Boston Planning and Development Agency.

Pilar Botana Martinez is a PhD student at the School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health. She has a background in Architecture, Urban Planning, and Design Visualization

Rosalyn Negrón, PhD - Rosalyn is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at UMass Boston, a member of SSL’s core team, a core faculty member in the Critical Ethnic and Community Studies program, and a research associate at the Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy

Martha Ondras is a Research Fellow at the Health Effects Institute

Jeanette Pantoja is a Public Health Planner at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council

Antonio Raciti is Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston

Marie-Frances Rivera is President of the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center

Sharon Ron is a Public Health Planner at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council

Tamara Roy is an Adjunct Faculty member at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and Principal at Stantec specializing in residential, academic and mixed-use master planning projects

Andres Sevtsuk is an Associate Professor of Urban Science and Planning at MIT, where he also directs the City Form Lab