12 books with New England ties to read this summer Gayle’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and elsewhere. Currently, he’s a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a professor at Northeastern University.
As American Architects Gather in Boston, Retrofits Are All the Rage At Northeastern, an initiative called Equitable Zoning by Design offers visualizations of residential build-outs in areas being considered for rezoning. The idea is to conjure an easily repeatable urban design that will make dense multifamily development more acceptable to wary neighbors.
Ex-Stoughton police officer charged with killing Sandra Birchmore did not father the baby she was carrying, DNA shows “If the charges relate to the relationship when she was under 16, the fact that she was or was not carrying his child [at the time of her death] would seem to be somewhat irrelevant, except it would indicate they had a continuing relationship,” said Daniel Medwed, a professor of law at Northeastern University.