Resources

• Carfree Cities - a web site and book detailing how to plan urban areas without cars, with reference plans.
  
  
• Eastern Cambridge Planning Study
  
  

Articles

• PHASE 1 FOR A CITY WITHIN A CITY SPRING START SET FOR NORTH POINT IN E. CAMBRIDGE, The Boston Globe, September 25, 2004

• CITY LOOKS TO MBTA FOR EAST SIDE ECONOMIC BOOST . Boston Globe, Dec. 2. Describes where the new Green line extension will go.

• URBAN TRANSIT PROJECT ON TRACK . Boston Globe, Nov. 19. The Urban Ring , a new mass transit line, could pass through North Point.

• CAMBRIDGE NEIGHBORS COOL TO $1.2B BUILDING PLAN . Boston Globe, Nov. 18.

• REZONING OK URGES HOUSING, LIMITS DEVELOPMENT IN CITY'S EAST . Boston Globe, Oct. 21.
  

Cambridge's Final Frontier; North Point project builds momentum. Boston Herald, September 14, 2001.

• Council discusses North Point plans . Boston Globe, July 22.

• Another East Cambridge master plan: Group raises concerns about density, traffic in city proposal. Town Online, June 19. "We’re concerned that the Planning Board version gives too much density, which would result in too much traffic … in an area that’s already failing to move traffic. There’s just no room to put any more cars, " said Stash Horowitz, vice president of the Association of Cambridge Neighborhoods .

• New plan offered for Cambridge site. Boston Globe, May 17.
  
  
• Spaulding & Slye selected for 45-acre rail yard mixed-use redevelopment in Cambridge, MA. Describes the current proposal for the site.

• Walking to Work: Why a Neighborhood Plan is the Only Sustaining Approach. An editorial by SAND on another Boston redevelopment.

Organizations

• The Friends of the Community Path , a group working to extend the extremely popular Minuteman Bikeway/Linear Park  from its current ending at Cedar Street in Somerville to the heart of North Point.
  
• Cambridge Residents For Growth Management
• Seaport Alliance for a Neighborhood Design (SAND)
• Conservation Law Foundation (CLF)
• Guilford Transportation Industries owns the land. "The company's Boston & Maine, Maine Central, and Springfield Terminal railroads have about 1,600 miles of track in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont. In addition, the company owns air carrier Pan American Airways. Timothy Mellon, an heir to the Mellon banking family fortune, and CEO David Fink own Guilford Transportation." (more info)
• Spaulding & Slye Colliers is the development firm selected by Guilford for the current proposal. It also designed the Fan Pier development (more info from CLF) .
• Information on the Urban Ring, which would serve North Point, from CLF
• Zipcar , a commerical car-sharing service

References

Jacobs, Allan. Great Streets. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993.

Alexander, Christopher et al. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Alexander, Christopher et al. A New Theory of Urban Design. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Anderson, Stanford (Ed.) On Streets. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986.

Appleyard, Donald. Livable Streets. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.

American Automobile Association, Your Driving Costs, 1999 Edition.

Crawford, J.H. Carfree Cities. Utrecht: International Books, 2000; www.carfree.com.

Forum Vauban. A Journey Through the Model District Vauban. Carsten Sperling Publikationen, 1999. Available from Forum Vauban , Forum.Vauban@t-online.de; www.forum-vauban.de.

Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California. Planning for Residential Parking: A Guide For Housing Developers and Planners. http://dcrp.ced.berkeley.edu/students/rrusso/parking/Developer%20Manual/Unbundling/index.htm.

Todd Litman. Pavement Busters Guide: Why and How to Reduce the Amount of Land Paved for Roads and Parking Facilities . Victoria Transport Policy Institute, 1999; http://www.vtpi.org/pav-bust.htm.

Todd Litman. Parking Requirement Impacts on Housing Affordability, Victoria, B.C., Canada:Victoria Transport Policy Institute, 1996; www.vtpi.org.

San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association, Reducing Housing Costs by Rethinking Parking Requirements , Report 369, November/December 1998.

Donald Shoup, An Opportunity to Reduce Minimum Parking Requirements. Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 61, No. 1, Winter 1995, pp. 14-28.

United States Department of the Census. 1990 Means of Transportation to Work.