The Boston Diaries
- Financial District foliage roots trains Copley Square Rose Kennedy Greenway Kendall Square community Government Center Prudential work community art Hoop Dreams Dorchester home exhibition Dallas Thanksgiving MIT Pavement Coffee House politics Chinatown snow fieldwork museums Downtown Central Square art Newburyport Bay Village Boston Harbor coffee Friendly Toast Mass Ave UMass Mihailidis Newbury St holidays Old Harbor Back Bay New England Thinking Cup Emerson Roxbury McKenna's cinema South End Harvard Wenham Harvard Square collective memory books Boston Common food MBTA JFK Cambridge South Station Boston Public Library Brookline fall Starbucks Christmas jazz Faneuil Hall trees Art in Transit noir North End stations Portraits of America Mayoral election T Tremont St Savin Hill public art EGL libraries Coolidge Corner Boylston St
Tag Archives: Boston Harbor
Day 15: Facilitating co-existence in urban public space
One of the challenges facing multicultural urban communities – and one of the ways of nurturing co-existence – is motivating people from different backgrounds to learn more about each other’s history and culture, thus facilitating empathy and tolerance. In the … Continue reading
Posted in Boston Diaries
Tagged Boston Harbor, Chinatown, collective memory, Downtown, fieldwork, memorials, public art, Rose Kennedy Greenway
Leave a comment
Day 15: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway
Walked, photographed and observed the entire Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway – Boston’s linear urban park that spans a huge area from Chinatown via the Wharf district to the North End. The Greenway was opened in 2008 after the 20-year … Continue reading
Posted in Boston Diaries
Tagged Boston Harbor, Chinatown, community art, Downtown, fieldwork, Haymarket, JFK, politics, public art, Rose Kennedy Greenway, South Station, trees, urban planning, Wharf District
1 Comment