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In 2007, Harvard Law School professors Gerald Frug and David Barron published a report entitled “Boston Bound”, comparing Boston’s legal structure to six other major United States cities: Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, New York, San Francisco, and…

This paper offers a critical look at District Hall, a building in the heart of Boston’s burgeoning
Innovation District. I provide insights based on observation and practical experience. I identify both
positive and negative aspects of the building,…

My project focuses on the North End in Boston, a unique part of the city as it has a dual role as a residential neighborhood and tourist attraction. After finding the street layout of the North End drastically different from the city around it, I…

This project is a set of poems about my most treasured places and memories in Boston. It explores how I understand Boston geographically and emotionally as a city and the powerful way that place can take on memory. I wrote about the Common, Quincy…

My project is about the community organization of City Life/ Vida Urbana. They focus on the issue of foreclosures in Boston. Through weekly meetings, blockades, letters to the government and banks, and civil disobedience, they support families that…

This paper presents a study of the City of Boston through two of its library branches. Insofar as ordinary people comprise the constituency of libraries, the premise of my research is that studying libraries and how they are utilized is a way of…

Summary: My paper uses firsthand accounts of personal experiences during the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, combined with speeches and newspaper articles, to describe the effect of the Boston Red Sox on the city of Boston throughout the…

Research question – is Boston actually unappealing to young adults, specifically recent college graduates? The interviews and personal point-of-views from the four individuals offer some insight into the young professionals’ minds but they are by no…

My paper is a policy memo addressed to the governor of Massachusetts, the mayor of Boston, and the state secretary of the department of transportation, detailing the potential for the Boston Olympics to improve the transportation infrastructure in…

Through the lens of two interviews with homeless Harvard Square citizens Tom and Susan, this paper explores the difference between “living” and “surviving” in Boston. Issues discussed include: shelter, hygiene, relationship with Harvard Square and…