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East Boston: A Coastal Community
When’s the last time you got in the water at the Boston Harbor? For some East Boston residents, the answer may be never. On today’s show, we’re talking about how as a coastal community, East Boston can better connect it’s residents to the water that surrounds it.
→Source: What's up Eastie?How Should Boston Fund its Future?
We often take for granted the network of roads and rails, water and sewer lines, and the green infrastructure of open spaces, flood defenses, and a clean electric grid. These features form the structural framework that makes our society work, but they’re not working so well in Boston, and the city can do more to address the problem.
→Source: The Boston GlobeSea Change: Is Boston Climate Ready?
First released in late 2016, the City’s “Climate Ready Boston” Report, is an ongoing, predictive study of the city’s structural vulnerabilities and, many hope, a plan for crafting new, long-term solutions.
→Source: WCVB ChronicleTestimony at Boston City Council Hearing on Coastal Flooding
Jill Valdes Horwood, director of policy for Boston Harbor Now, testified at the May 29, 2018, Boston City Council hearing on coastal flooding.
→Source: Boston Harbor NowBoston’s Ad Hoc Planning Doesn’t Work with Climate Change
The ad hoc system of private deals and negotiations that defines Boston’s development process is particularly unsuited to addressing the threats of climate change.
→Source: The Boston GlobeTwo Instances of Once-In-A-Generation Floods Leave Many Questioning Region Preparedness
With two monster storms causing once-in-a-generation flooding eight weeks apart, what exactly is the city of Boston doing to address these environmental?
→Source: WGBH Greater BostonAs Giant Storms Hammer Boston, Officials Are Doing Little to Prepare for Them
Impacts from climate change, which were supposed to wallop the area 80 years from now, are already menacing a region that is only beginning to talk about ways to protect itself.
→Source: The Washington PostLetter to the Editor: Waterfront Editorial was ‘Disappointing’
World-class cities are formed out of a combination of bold vision and high aspiration. By your own description, the Boston Planning and Development Agency’s Downtown Municipal Harbor Plan, which includes the Harbor Garage site, is neither visionary nor comprehensive.
→Source: Boston Business JournalOpen Space, Green Infrastructure Could Protect Us From the Next ‘Bomb Cyclone’
As Winter Storm Grayson roared into the Northeast this past week, it wasn’t snow or freezing temperatures that brought our coastal cities to a state of emergency. It was water—too much of it, and in the wrong places.
→Source: Boston Business Journal20/20 Hindsight: Did Our Investments Position Us For a Bright Future?
Boston is changing: new neighborhoods, new residents, a new innovation economy, and now a new comprehensive plan. In this age of accelerating urban transformation, it’s striking how many of these changes had their origins in decisions made — or not made — 20 years ago.
→Source: Architecture BostonRecurring events
- Friends of the East Boston Greenway: →Monthly Meeting
- Friends of the Boston HarborWalk: →Monthly Meeting