Robert Neuwirth on shadow cities

Cities-suburbs-do we know where we’re going to? Robert Neuwirth speaks on squatter cities and how they operate. While Northampton struggles to define infill and its character, from a global perspective squatter cities may become more the norm than the exception....

Folklore no more

After sifting through records in the city’s human resources department and stumbling upon a new policy, in July of 2007 I conducted an interview with Northampton Mayor Mary Clare Higgins regarding a change she made to the city’s group health insurance...