The Boston Diaries
- Prudential North End Boston Public Library Portraits of America filming locations South Station McKenna's Copley Square politics Mass Ave Thanksgiving UMass Boston Harbor Lowell Hoop Dreams MBTA Newburyport art New England Boston Common South End Art in Transit Coolidge Corner Downtown fall public art Rose Kennedy Greenway jazz Harvard Square Roxbury trees stations museums Financial District Savin Hill Central Square food Emerson Mayoral election Tremont St fieldwork work Cambridge Chinatown home foliage Newport community art noir Dorchester Pavement Coffee House Mihailidis books Old Harbor cinema Wenham Friendly Toast JFK T libraries Kendall Square coffee holidays EGL Newbury St Bay Village Boylston St Faneuil Hall snow collective memory Brookline Government Center exhibition DC community Starbucks Harvard MIT Back Bay trains
Tag Archives: Rose Kennedy Greenway
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