16 10 343 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/a2aedbaee03295c6f4258c8fc5d39e24.png b56af2060fbb35ffaf44af564a576284 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/cec07ee8daf8743eec07482274a76367.jpg ff8f7fdb5b3a3bd9b2e73760bc59bbb9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indicators Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lauren Varela Description An account of the resource My photo is of The Cathedral of the Holy Cross. I choose this picture because I have been coming to this church for years and I never knew it was in the South End of Boston. I always thought the church and the mass were so beautiful so I imagined we were in a great part of Boston where most of the community members must be wealthy. However, after my walk and visit to the South End I realized that this is not the case, but it made me love the South End even more. For my map on Social Explorer, I choose to look at the houses that were listed above 1 million dollars. I choose this because since my indicator was nice cars (BMWs, Mercedes, etc.), I thought that these cars would have to most likely correlate to nice homes, and I think my map that I choose shows this correlation. As noted in my paper, all of the nice cars were going to and coming from the side street and as you can see from the map, all of the homes above 1 million dollars seemed to be clustered around these side streets between the main drags. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/983ef93c27e8fccdf8e10ca8262e696b.png d61799145d81e92c7c03e84887a5c7ef https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/edf1f55a8dc9f053458570d993d10dda.JPG 62106e2a2bc90ba62598bcd373cdbed4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indicators Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eman Riaz Ahmed Description An account of the resource Map: I was interested in comparing geographical racial divisions in Charlestown with how old the houses were and how rich the residents were. Poorer residents tend to live in newer buildings (apartment blocks as opposed to red-brick houses) and tend to be of non-white origin. Here I’ve attached the map that shows how the older houses are on the left (on this map) side of the area. Photograph: This was an advertisement for a neighborhood block party on Chestnut street in Charlestown, surrounded by a number of seasonal decorations. I believe that the fact that this is the 10th annual event of this kind, and encourages people to make friends in the neighborhood, indicates that the area is quite welcoming to its immediate residents at least. Of course, the best way to gauge this would be to attend such a neighborhood party. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/8dd23958694bad5b48e11c7fd321f924.JPG 98466661d8b86d3e890681bb480a12e2 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/c4183270c8c0ab1f5717cf500628d2df.jpg b3e509b3b64ba81b80e687b77f492d72 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indicators Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Rosa Bonilla Description An account of the resource This photo was taken on the corner of Bunker Hill St and Pearl St in Charlestown on a Saturday morning. It depicts two houses side by side with their doors visibly open and with no sign of the residents. I was very surprised to see this as I was walking by, but was even more surprised to find six more doors just like them as I continued to walk around the neighborhood. I found this very interesting because it implies that homeowners feel safe on their streets and trust their neighbors. The map I am using shows the economic characteristics of the neighborhood. I think this is very interesting to look at in conjunction with the photo because the map shows the differences in income between residents in the neighborhood and there are significant differences across the neighborhood that I was able to witness as I walked. However, I found that no matter how affluent the collection of houses seemed, open doors appeared with the same frequency. This led me to believe that the safety of a neighborhood is not determined by how rich or poor the homeowners are, but rather by some other factor or combination of factors. Jane Jacobs suggests that this factor might be usage of the sidewalks on those streets, a theory that is supported by the thin yet fairly constant stream of people walking past me on the sidewalk. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/c5e29d433dbd632c9350829842893f83.jpg 5a170944fb6a341bae8e85ab4f638258 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/00bc012e6769d84e652a741ae447b966.JPG eed7aa0080bdf4ed0e54d51fbe128a6a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indicators Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Zachary Brazão Description An account of the resource Demographic information on Boston Area Research Initiative Boston Map shows that East Boston is a predominantly immigrant and low-income neighborhood. My neighborhood visit and walk along Bennington St. confirm this data. I was interested by the diversity within the Latino community as I heard both Spanish and Portuguese and saw businesses catering to Salvadorans, Colombians, Mexicans, Brazilians and Peruvians. I also noticed a lot of Italian businesses in Day Square and was surprised to find Vietnamese and Moroccan businesses in Orient Heights. While the Boston Map categorizes all of Bennington St. as low income I certainly noticed an economic difference in appearances, in terms of housing and street cleanliness, in the section above Day Square. Every time I go to East Boston I notice something new and I can only imagine what I will find on my next visit. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/a194414acfa325e9a63cbac0fbc1ec1c.png fc56de9210a9c9b4a78ed02339b159cb https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/222f2504a61dae4d61b6d7a355db92a6.JPG 6dc3825813fee78bb50bdee17f79886d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indicators Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Merilin Castillo Description An account of the resource My photo, taken at W. Broadway and C shows the ways in which South Boston is shifting as a neighborhood. We see a sign for Al’s Liquors directly facing the sign for Foodie Market. In an almost spatial rivalry, the two exist and share this intersection in an eerie battle between present and perhaps, past. My map, on the other hand, was my attempt to understand the ways in which actual rent was changing. One of the biggest markers of gentrification is the change in property value where rent rises and poorer residents are pushed out; I wanted to see what South Boston’s rent looked like when mapped out. I was familiar with the housing developments on the corner of West Broadway and B Street, but I was not aware of the enormous amount of construction and corporate development work also going on in the neighborhood. I thought to map the Median Gross Rents, in an effort to demonstrate the ways in which South Boston is becoming less of a highly low-income neighborhood and trying to attract young, wealthier, professionals. Although the newly built, and developing condominiums are not reflected in this map, I think this data tells us a lot about where Southie housing has been and where it will go. I suspect that the new apartments being built across the street from the West Broadway Housing Development- once completed- will highly alter this data. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/85a7e0a6f4ac44c3acb95915a5c2ec65.jpg 17e954205b3d595ae0240a26e7ef088e https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/c949a759b643887bcd4db177fc22cd43.jpg 81106c590e4c27b4c25b0f2bab0785e4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indicators Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource John Chipoco-Campoverde Description An account of the resource The map I chose shows the locations of East Boston residences in subsidized housing plans. Interestingly, I bumped into on the locations during my brief period of being lost on Faywood/Orient Avenue. The apartments in that area surround a community center in a castle like manner. This map shows a greater incidence of subsidized housing near the Sumner tunnel. The photograph that I’m attaching shows a small shrine with a saint depicted in dark skin. The shrine is one of the many shrines of various sizes that I tracked in the northern part of East Boston. Not entirely sure what the dark skinned saint is supposed to signify. Both the map and the photograph seem to indicate the north part of East Boston seems to have a generally higher income than the part near Maverick station, illustrated by the Blue Line. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/5c1543f51f996d05a54141416b2a0353.jpg f7e97d52478efac6204ec7492bfa13bb https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/de2fe3b38a2ccaed6f60d0006726cdcd.JPG cd15bdfdcb4bcc6855c0862ce8b4fbcb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indicators Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Olivia Chung Description An account of the resource This picture is taken Boston is taken on the intersection of W. Newton St and Shawmut Ave. The South End not only home to thousands of local residents but also a tourist destination for thousands. In order to distinguish between these two populations, looking at cars parked in South End Resident Parking Only regions can lend to a more accurate and pointed view. Following this mantra of looking at resident parking areas, the cars parked in these areas and what these cars look like (the bumper stickers attached to them) are thus representative of the people who live there. Ergo, an analysis of bumper stickers in South End Resident Parking Only area can illustrate details about the types of people who live in South End and even sections within the South End. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/37165ea39abdc6927ed687fb8374c5f7.png 62caf75e6592d371678721c7ebb85e3b https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/cc0f9e41e99c856ab6e7d7d1f88b45b6.jpg 0aba11b2e339abfa043c1efa6b733fde Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indicators Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alex Cox Description An account of the resource The map that I’ve created is based off of a phenomenon that I noticed while walking around the South End: although the neighborhood is fairly diverse economically and racially, the transit users that I observed were overwhelmingly low-to-moderate-income people of color. Because of the diversion of the MBTA’s Orange Line into the Southwest Corridor in 1987, residents of the South End mainly have to rely on bus service to reach jobs downtown (although those on the western edge of the neighborhood can reach Mass Ave, Back Bay, and Prudential stations fairly easily). I was interested to see how convenient these vital transit links are to the neighborhood’s low income residents, so I mapped the frequent bus routes that run through the area – the 1, 8, 9, 10, 43, 47, and SL4 and SL5 – and overlaid them with the South End’s subsidized housing. As can be seen in the resulting map, the neighborhood’s low-income residents have fairly excellent access to high-frequency transit. The concentration of subsidized units along Tremont Street gives those residents easy access to the 43 bus that runs between Ruggles and Park Street, while those that live between Tremont and Washington have their choice of the 43 or the Silver Line. Although they’re farther away from these bus lines, residents of the affordable units along Columbus Avenue are within easy walking distance of the rapid transit stations along the Orange Line and Green Line “E” Branch. Overall, low-income residents of the South End have much better access to transit than many other such areas in Boston, which I was surprised by. My photo submission, on the other hand, depicts a phenomenon that I found emblematic of the South End’s urban design – the “public alley.” Although public alleys can be found throughout Boston (such as in the Back Bay), those in the South End have a distinct character because of the unique arrangement of the neighborhood’s gridded blocks. Quiet and secluded, the alleys are surrounded on almost all sides by the backs of the buildings that they flank. The majestic South End rowhouses, without the grand facades that they project onto the streets, look rather dismal with their bare brick and fire escapes visible. I was struck by how many different ways these alleys are now used by the South End’s residents- not only do they serve to keep dumpsters, telephone wires, and other unsightly (but necessary) pieces of urban infrastructure off of the neighborhood’s pristine streets; they also provide space for residential parking, community gardens, and even some private terraces on the backs of homes. I saw more than one family sitting out and enjoying the weather on the pleasant day I was there. Although I didn’t realize it at the time I took the photo, this specific location is particularly emblematic of the South End’s development in the last few years because it depicts the Concord Baptist Church. According to a Boston.com article from 2010, the church was once a mainstay of the South End’s Black community, and was frequented by Martin Luther King Jr. during his time at Boston University. Now, however, the church congregation has moved out to Milton, and their old building is being converted into eight luxury condo units (in the price range of $1.35-$6.09 million). In short, what was once a major community institution for the city’s people of color is becoming an expensive home for a handful of millionaires. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/e7bc796a98b22c3c0f036e8593068d21.png 6806a3e99774356778f1feca2f2e3804 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/d47efde1fe9cdd0a7bfc4ccf14fdc144.png 4b5d2669cd8688884563ddf046b21cd2 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/3baea5e056e1607101ce4f873ad62985.jpg 980f0807284c5193df77200556951811 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indicators Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Isobel Davies Description An account of the resource Showing the level of Physical Disorder along the route I walked (West Broadway street to Dorchester street). I feel that for the most part this map mirrors my personal findings on my walk, namely that the physical appearance of Broadway St deteriorated as I headed towards Dorchester Street. I was slightly perplexed however to see that according to the map I created that the area just before Dorchester Street had supposedly lower levels of physical disorder than that of the intersections with D street and E street in contrary to my findings. I took this photo just at the intersection of West Broadway Street and E street, I feel this photo clearly shows signs of physical decay, such as the abandoned gated store, plants growing up a building on the right, and the unpainted chipped walls of a takeout store. I feel this photo shows one side of the South Boston that of an area physically on the decline and few residential caretakers concerned about maintaining its upkeep. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/536380e73b10c62754a134bad204c3c8.png 98ae27b7e273a3b90f10adeebb061fa2 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/e6890093ac3142958b7e9c3f95b6a6d5.png d875ae84f7d2586b8db5c665cd3d8bbe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Indicators Project Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ryan Donato Description An account of the resource While walking by, I saw one of the locals with all of his mirrors smashed in. I asked him what had happened he said he was not sure. This image somewhat captures the overall feeling of the distress people from that area face on a daily basis. Around his home, there are buildings and houses which have graffiti and broken windows and his nice car sat nice and pretty right in the middle of it. It’s not hard to see that potentially someone vandalized it. This image signifies and captures many of the ideas that I tried to support in my essay. Distress can be found anywhere, some places more obvious than others. The map shows how the MBTA Blue Line goes directly across the middle of East Boston. Usually around any type of train station its going to be hectic. East Boston has a train line directly cut through it entirely showing how all of East Boston is impacted by the MBTA.