What u know about Urbanism?
What is Urbanism?
The General Manager of the MBTA.
Who is Phil Eng?
The law passed in 1990 that requires all public works (including streets) to be accessible.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
The US City which adopted the first true Zoning law in 1916.
What is New York City?
The highway which separates South Campus from BU's Charles River Campus.
The process of developing and designing land use and the environment.
What is Urban Planning?
The approach to street design that includes safety for ALL users of the road, including pedestrians, bikers, transit riders, those who use mobility devices, and vehicles.
The US city with the longest zoning code, by both total length AND pages per square mile of city area.
What is Boston?
The highway which separates BU's campus from the Charles River waterfront.
What is Storrow Drive?
The practice in which primarily Black neighborhoods were systematically denied homeownership by a government created color-coded map.
What is redlining?
The category of train that is used on the MBTA Green Line.
What is a Light Rail Vehicle?
The Boston Mayoral Candidate whose only solid policy stance is to pause the construction of bike lanes.
Who is Josh Kraft?
The predecessor to the Boston Planning Department, which razed the West End Neighborhood in the 1950s as an "Urban Renewal" project.
The project which put the elevated "Central Artery (I-93)" in Downtown Boston underground, while connecting Boston Logan to the Interstate Highway System.
What is the Big Dig?
The author and title of the 1961 book written by a New York Author-Activist in opposition to the work of Robert Moses.
What is the Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs?
The MBTA line with the highest ridership, averaging 119,000 weekday riders in 2023.
What is the Red Line?
Who is the Chief of Streets of Boston?
Jascha Franklin-Hodge
The article of the City of Boston's 3,791 page Zoning Code which outlines the development review process for all new projects.
The process by which the air above state-owned land can be purchased or leased to developers for the purpose of new development.
What is air-rights development?
The President which pioneered the development of the modern Interstate Highway System.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
What are the four MBTA lines named for?
Green = Emerald Necklace
Red = Harvard Crimson
Blue = Boston Harbor
Orange = It's complicated...
The man funding the astroturf anti-bike lane group ironically named "Pedal Safe Boston"
Who is Jay Cashman? Aka Jay MoneyBoy
The Boston Planning Department initiative which will support mixed use development around transit and neighborhood centers, while also simplifying Boston's convoluted zoning code.
What is Squares and Streets?
The project which aims to realign I-90 in Allston to create new land for development and a connection to the Charles River Esplanade at Harry Agganis Way, among many other things.
What is the Allston Multimodal Project?