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Related programs & projects | Recent publications | Archives | Taubman Center Annual Report Article Index Several programs and projects affiliated with the Taubman Center as well as some Taubman affiliates are studying efforts to make government more responsive and effective. Recent projects include studies of participatory democracy, performance-based management, public-sector use of the Internet and information technology, and public collection and dissemination of information as a way to improve environmental quality, public health and working conditions. Center faculty and affiliates have also studied the flow of funds between the states and the federal government, the use of project-based finance, and the privatization and regulation of infrastructure and other government services. Right of 'eminent domain' challenged
Currently the Supreme Court is reviewing a case brought forward by homeowners in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood of New London, Connecticut. Much attention has been given to this question because it is the first time in 50 years that this type of case has been brought before the U.S. Supreme Court. Coverage of the discussion from the Harvard Gazette. APSA’s Urban Politics Section Honors MegaProjects Book
Writing in Perspectives on Politics, an APSA journal, Steven Erie, a member of the awards committee, called the book a “savvy and important study of the changing dynamics of major urban public investments since World War II.” Altshuler and Luberoff “combine rich empirical studies of post World War II public entrepreneurship, both locally and nationally, for major urban transportation projects, with illuminating chapters on urban theory in relation to changing public investment strategies.” The result, he concluded, is a “major contribution to urban development policy and should attract a broad interdisciplinary scholarly audience, as well as urban policymakers and stakeholders.” Altshuler, currently is acting dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, is a professor with joint appointments at the Kennedy School and GSD, and was director of the Kennedy School’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government and KSG’s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. Luberoff, who is executive director of the Rappaport Institute, was the Taubman Center’s associate director and was an adjunct lecturer at GSD. States Facing Serious Financial Crunch Despite End of Recession Edward Glaeser To Become Co-Director of the Taubman Center Edward L. Glaeser, a longtime Taubman Center faculty affiliate, will become co-director of the Taubman Center on July 1. Alan Altshuler, who has served as director of the Taubman Center since its founding in 1988, will partner with Glaeser in co-directing the Center. Glaeser and Altshuler will also be co-faculty directors of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, which is independent of but affiliated with the Taubman Center. More information | Related article in the 2004 Taubman Center Report David Luberoff to Become Executive Director of the Rappaport Institute
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On Tuesday, November 16 the Taubman Center for State and Local Government hosted a discussion on 'eminent domain' by Professor Jerold Kayden, the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design. The discussion centered on the question "Can a single-family house and land be taken through eminent domain and turned over to a private developer to generate increased jobs and tax revenue?" 
The Urban Affairs Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) recently honored Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff’s Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment (Brookings Institution Press) with its “best book in urban politics” award for 2003. 
David Luberoff, who has been associate director of the Taubman Center since 1998, has been appointed executive director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston as of June 1. He will replace Charles C. Euchner, who has served since the Institute’s founding in 2000 and is leaving to pursue writing opportunities.