Local and Regional Organizations
Books
Killed by a Traffic Engineer - Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System
Wesley E. Marshall, 2025
Paved Paradise - How Parking Explains the World
Henry Grabar, 2023
The Affordable City - Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping It There)
Shane Phillips, 2020
Golden Gates - Fighting for Housing in America
Conor Dougherty, 2020
Better Buses, Better Cities - How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
Steven Higashide, 2019
Generation Priced Out - Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America
Randy Shaw, 2018
The High Cost of Free Parking
Donald Shoup, 2005
Resource List
City of Boston
- City of Boston Planning Department
- Planning and Zoning overview
- Planning initiatives (you can filter by neighborhood and status)
- Find individual development projects here (you can filter by neighborhood and status - does not include very small projects)
- Boston Zoning Viewer
- Allston-Brighton specific
- Zoning reform
- Development Review
- What is development review?
- Article 80 development review process (current as of February 2025)
- Improving Our Development Process (Article 80 reform initiative 2024-6)
- City of Boston Anti-Displacement Planning
- Mayor’s Office of Housing
- Boston Transportation Department
Boston Region
Massachusetts
Other Housing Organizations
- Abundant Housing Massachusetts Resource Library
- YIMBY Lit Review (Stephen Hoskins)
- YIMBY Reference List
- Shelterforce - Reporting on housing policy and affordable housing issues
- Strong Towns - Advocacy for financially sustainable urban development
Boston News and Community Resources
- Allstonia - Neighbor-run news for Allston
- Universal Hub - Independent Boston news and discussion forum
- The Bulletin - Community newspaper covering many Boston neighborhoods
- MASSter List - Daily newsletter covering politics and policy
- Streetsblog Mass - Reporting on transportation and transit issues in Massachusetts