Kyle Paoletta’s longform feature on Arthur Jemison entitled “Can This Man Blow up City Development without Destroying Boston?” has been published in the January issue of Boston Magazine. Paoletta’s profile of Jemison — who studied urban planning in graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, tackled housing challenges around the country, and then returned to Boston to head its planning and development agency — offers a deep dive into the city’s ambitious efforts to provide environmentally friendly, affordable housing for a surging population while reforming planning and zoning processes and attending to social equity concerns.
Paoletta’s book American Oasis: How the Cities of the Southwest Forecast Our Sweltering, Multicultural Future will be published by Pantheon in 2024.