Boston

The development of Boston’s South Bay is deeply intertwined with the city’s struggles with immigration and race. South Bay was once 138 acres covered with water. “Land reclamation” efforts – landfill – began in 1845 and continued well into the twentieth...

In the late nineteenth century, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead proposed for Boston an “Emerald Necklace,” a series of parks and greenways linking around the city in a ring. Though the park system is celebrated today, it is not complete...

Instructor: Jeffrey Schnapp, Matthew Battles, and the metaLAB team Spring 2015 The contemporary city is constituted by multiple overlapping realities articulated across built form and imagined space, individual experience and collective memory, embodied...

Instructor: Alex Krieger Spring 2015 An interpretive look at the American city in terms of changing attitudes toward urban life. City and suburb are experienced as the product of design and planning decisions informed by cultural and economic forces, and...

Instructor: Jeanne Marie Haffner Boston is full of green spaces such as the Emerald Necklace, bike trails, and smaller pieces of greenery that make ordinary spaces feel more special. Focusing on Boston and surrounding areas, this Freshman Seminar will...

Instructor Jonah Susskind and Aline Reynolds, Harvard Mellon students researching the greater Boston area, generated these dot-density maps, which reveal geographic relationships between employment clusters and employee residences throughout the greater...