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Rose Kennedy Greenway: Journal Articles

This guide provides information on the historical development, landscape architecture, horticulture, and public art of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway.

Contemporary Greenways

Anthony Walmsley, “Greenways and the Making of Urban Form.”
Landscape and Urban Planning 33, no. 1 (1995): 81-127.
Jan-Carlos Kucharek, "Thin Green Line [Avenida de Portugal, Madrid, Spain]."
RIBA Journal 117, no. 4 (April 2010): 50.
Ken Greenberg, "A Good Time for Cities."
Places 19, no. 2 (Summer 2007): 4-11.
Peter Gisolfi, "Accidental Parks: Cities are Creating Open Space from Urban Remnants - But Can Remnants Effectively Bind the City Together?."
Landscape Architecture 97, no. 8 (August 2007): 74-76.
Peter Harnik and Ben Welle, "Nature Over Traffic: in the United States, a Movement is Underway to Conceal Urban Highways With Parks."
Urban Land 66, no. 4 (April 2007): 102-105.
Phil Birge-Liberman, “(Re)Greening the City: Urban Park Restoration as a Spatial Fix.”
Geography Compass 4, no. 9 (September 2010): 1392-1407.
C.S. Shafer, et al, "Recreation and Amenity Values of Urban Stream Corridors: Implications for Green Infrastructure."
Journal of Urban Design 18.4 (2013): 478-93.
Ki-ho Kim and Bae Kim, "Sustainable Development for the City: City Design Initiatives through Greenways."
Asia Design Journal 5 (2010): 136-65.
A Greenway for the People: How a 28-mile loop around Jamaica Bay is changing the face of Gateway National Recreation Area
National Parks, Summer 2023

The Big Dig & Constructing the Rose Kennedy Greenway

Alex Krieger, "Boston's Big Dig: Open Space Time and Arteries - Boston's 'Big Dig' and the Rose Kennedy Greenway - a Critical Appraisal of Transforming a Major City Highway and Replacing It With a Linear Parkland."
Topos: The International Review Of Landscape Architecture & Urban Design no. 73 (2010): 68-75.
Alex Ulam, "Who owns the Rose Kennedy Greenway?: Boston's attempt to find 'common ground'."
Landscape Architecture 93, no. 2 (February 2003): 116.
Allen Freeman, "Above the Cut: the Big Dig Selects Landscape Teams for Three New Parks in Downtown Boston."
Landscape Architecture 93, no. 3 (March 2003): 62-67.
Anna Laura Palazzo,"The Boston Greenway: Form and Process Issues at Stake."
Journal of Urban Design 19.3 (2014): 352-67.
Barbara Faga, "Boston's Big Dig."
Topos: The International Review Of Landscape Architecture & Urban Design no. 51 (2005): 86-[92].
Gary R. Hilderbrand, "Reciprocal Acts: Reviving Larger Ambitions, Incrementally: Two Recent Projects by Reed Hilderbrand Associates in Boston, Massachusetts, Reveal a Sensibility About the City's New Urban Fabric."
Topos: The International Review Of Landscape Architecture & Urban Design no. 78 (2012): 74-81.
Gina Crandell, "A Long (Green) Way to Go."
Architecture Boston, 7, no. 1 (January 2004): 12-15.
Jennifer B. Robinson, “Crime and Regeneration in Urban Communities: The Case of the Big Dig in Boston, Massachusetts.”
Built Environment 34, no. 1 (2008): 46-61.
Mark Hough, "The Big Sprig : Boston's Rose Kennedy Greenway Has Finally Gotten What It Always Needed - Time."
Landscape Architecture Magazine 106, no. 7 (July 2016): 84-103.
Marty Carlock and Heidi Hohmann, "City United, Park Fragmented: Two Design Writers Share Their Thoughts on the Rose Kennedy Greenway."
Landscape Architecture 100, no. 3 (March 2010): 24-36.
Robert A. Brown, "Filling the Cut: After Years of Planning, the Rose Kennedy Greenway is Finally Taking Shape in Boston."
Urban Land 65, no. 3 (March 2006): 65-68.
Robert Campbell, "A Walk in Progress: a Tour of the (More or less) Finished Sections of the New Rose Kennedy Greenway Reveals that Intentions Have Been Met - and Missed [Boston, Massachusetts]."
Landscape Architecture 98, no. 3 (March 2008): 28-30.
Robert L. Turner, "It's Green and its Controversial: a 25-Block Greenway Covering the Newly Depressed Central Artery Has its Fans and its Detractors."
Planning 77, no. 1 (January 2011): 25-27.
Stephen Yablon, "A Light Touch: Small Building Makes Big Statement Atop Boston's Big Dig."
Oculus 67, no. 4 (Fall 2005): 29.
Tamara Roy and Kelly Shannon, "Wanted: Visionary Landscape Designer - Boston's 'Big Dig'."
Archis no. 5 (2003): 112-[115].
Ted Smalley Bowen, "New Plans Forming Above and Around Boston's 'Big Dig'."
Architectural Record 192, no. 6 (June 2004):54

Landscape Architecture & Horticulture on the Greenway

Anthony Ruggiero, “Organic Turf Maintenance on a Large Scale at the Rose Kennedy Greenway.”
Ecological Landscaper (Dec. 2013): 1.
Stu Shilaber, “Greening the Greenway.”
Ecological Landscaper (Nov. 2012): 1.
“Let the Plantings Begin.”
Landscape Architect & Specifier News 24, no. 6 (Jun 2008): 131.
“MassHort Announces Plans to Plant Gardens in Downtown Boston.”
People, Places, and Plants, no. 67 (May 2008): 30.
“Tough Trees Meet Urban Needs.”
Landscape Contractor National 9, no. 3 (Mar. 2006): 77

Public Art at the Greenway

Susan Boulanger, “Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animal/Zodiac Heads.”
Art New England 37, no. 4 (2016): 76.