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About the BRA

Charlestown Waterfront Coalition

The Boston Harbor Association

The Friends of Fort Point Channel

Urban Waterfront Manifesto

Adams, James L. Conceptual Blockbusting. New York, NY: Perseus Books, 2001. ISBN: 9780738205373.

Frenchman, Dennis. "Narrative Places and the New Practice of Urban Design." In Imaging the City. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 2001. ISBN: 9780882851709.

Kaner, Sam. Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making. New York, NY: Jossey-Bass, 2007. ISBN: 9780787982669.

Katz, Bruce, and Andy Altman. "An Urban Renaissance in a Suburban Nation." Ford Foundation, 2005. (PDF - 2.1 MB)

Krumholz, Norman. "Equitable Approaches to Local Economic Development." Policy Studies Journal 27, no. 1 (1999): 83-95.

Logan, John, and Harvey Molotch. Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780520254282.

Mullin, Stephen. "Public-Private Partnerships and State and Local Economic Development: Leveraging Private Investment." Review of Economic Development, Literature and Practice, no. 16 (2002).

Payne, Geoffrey. "Building Bridges: The Experience of Public-Private Partnerships in Urban Land Development." Lincoln Land Institute Unpublished Report, 2003.