“Place can function as the most powerful organizing theme of shared meaning. Street corners and neighborhoods, parks and schools, monuments and memorials— these are not just spots on a map. They are what hold the abstraction of social life
together” (Gordon and Koo, 2008: 206)
The Boston Diaries
- Thanksgiving Middleborough Emerson Mass Ave North End fall Hoop Dreams Art in Transit coffee home Boston Common Mayoral election trains Mihailidis art politics fieldwork New England Portraits of America Copley Square Wenham Boston Public Library Downtown Harvard MBTA Financial District Wharf District Coolidge Corner Government Center exhibition Central Square Starbucks community Harvard Square holidays Brookline work Cambridge South Station trees Newburyport books Chinatown Tremont St public art Bay Village noir libraries UMass EGL Friendly Toast museums stations Old Harbor snow JFK Prudential foliage Boston Harbor Rose Kennedy Greenway community art MIT Pavement Coffee House Kendall Square cinema Savin Hill South End T McKenna's Back Bay Al Dente food Newbury St Roxbury Boylston St jazz Quincy Dorchester collective memory Faneuil Hall