Monthly Archives: March 2003

Index of Weblog Posts – March

March 31, 2003 – 10:56 am

Boston’s Indicators Breakthrough Smarter Growth and Elementary Economics — the same thing?

By Farley Peters | Posted in Commentary | Comments (0)

Boston’s Indicators Breakthrough

March 19, 2003 – 8:06 am

Indicators of city and region progress sound great, and the number (and variety) of projects keeps expanding — to at least several dozen now — across the U.S. Measured by communications impact, Boston’s (a project of the Boston Foundation) may just have made the biggest 21st century stride yet. The foundation has taken its Indicators [...]

By Neal Peirce | Posted in Commentary | Comments (0)

Smarter Growth and Elementary Economics — the same thing?

March 12, 2003 – 9:32 am

Could Economics 101 and smart-growth principles be the same thing? About six years ago, the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota persuaded the state’s transportation department to invest what came close to a million dollars on 16 major research projects analyzing transportation and regional growth issues. Last fall I got the big [...]

By Curtis Johnson | Posted in Commentary | Comments (0)