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March 2005
'Mega-projects' are topic of spring luncheon
David Luberoff
Are projects such as Boston's $15 billion "Big Dig," the $5 billion Denver International Airport, and Los Angeles' $6 billion Red Line subway harbingers of a new generation of urban mega-projects or cautionary tales for leaders in other localities?
David Luberoff, executive director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, will examine this question at the CTS Spring Luncheon on April 26. He is the co-author, with Alan A. Altshuler, of Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment (Brookings, 2003).
Luberoff's speech will explain how such projects emerged from the controversies about urban highways and airports in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He will also review some common themes from recent projects' histories and ask whether the forces that shaped recent projects remain dominant or are again changing in important ways.
The luncheon is held in conjunction with the CTS 16th Annual Transportation Research Conference. To register, contact Katie Kjeseth, 612-624-3708, kkjeseth@cce.umn.edu, or register online.