Big Building: the Assembly Square Mall - a conversation with Wig Zamore

Assembly Square Mall in Somerville, MA is a classic story in large scale urban redevelopment. Vacant after the old Ford assembly plant shut, the 150-acre site was looking for a new life when a group of citizen activists began meeting in the late 1990s to imagine a different future for the large parcel. unPlanned talks with Wig Zamore, a person who was instrumental in its rebirth. Wig tells us all about that work and the urban planning that went into it, and the serious challenges of getting the Orange Line T stop built to connect it up to public transit.