Vision & Mission

A Better City represents a multi-sector group of nearly 130 business leaders united around a common vision: to create a more vibrant, competitive, sustainable, and equitable city and region for all. Our mission is to engage the Greater Boston business community and civic institutions in developing solutions and influencing policy through research and collaboration on transportation, climate, and land use issues.  

I-90 Allston Multimodal Project: The Time is Now

I-90 ALLSTON PROJECT UPDATE

Built to Lead: Lessons in Building Decarbonization and Resilience Panel Series

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Publications

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2025 Year in Review

Throughout 2025, A Better City was proud to partner with you,and with the Healey-Driscoll Administration, State Legislature,and Wu Administration, to navigate a year marked by economicchallenges and uncertainty. We worked together to . . . Read More
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Boosting Bluebikes

In 2024, the Bluebikes bikeshare system, easily recognizable by its title sponsor, Blue Cross Blue Shield, introduced e-bikes to its growing fleet of bicycles for the first time in its 14-year history. The all-new, immensely popular . . . Read More
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Feeling the Heat: B-COOL Pilot Explores the Efficacy of Heat Emergency Protocols in Boston’s Hotspot Neighborhoods

This Report shares the findings of the B-COOL 2024 temperature sensor pilot, which deployed 15 temperature sensors across environmental justice hotspot neighborhoods in Boston and compared their data to official heat emergency declaration . . . Read More
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Greening the Blue Line

In celebration of Earth Week, A Better City released Greening the Blue Line, a report undertaken in collaboration with Civic Space Collaborative and Weston & Sampson and with generous support from the Stone Living Lab. This project . . . Read More
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2024 Year in Review

In 2024, A Better City worked alongside you—and with the Healey-Driscoll Administration, State Legislature, and Wu Administration—to develop solutions to some of Greater Boston’s most pressing challenges—from . . . Read More

Greenway Business Improvement District (BID)

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