1 10 343 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/3cde3058c5badc11d9eba7869e222bd7.jpg b140f8c825cbfa81eee9f029edc52834 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 Boston - Iconic Images https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/448183ad1c06d438dee64e45de6de81a.jpg 15d78954e8bfbf51bab1b2b151c103d9 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 PEOPLE 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 David Luberoff Description An account of the resource David Luberoff is a lecturer on sociology and a senior project advisor to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s Boston Area Research Initiative. From 2004 until 2012, he was Executive Director of Harvard’s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, which seeks to improve the governance of the region by strengthening ties between scholars, students, officials, and civic leaders, thus addressing a variety of key urban issues. He co-developed and co-taught “Reinventing Boston,” a General Education class at Harvard that used Boston to introduce undergraduates to a variety of urban issues. He has also been Associate Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, an adjunct lecturer at both the Kennedy School and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, and editor of The Tab, the largest group of weekly newspapers in greater Boston. The author of many articles and case studies on the politics of infrastructure and land-use policies, he is the co-author (with Alan Altshuler) of Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment, which was named 2003’s best book on urban politics by the American Political Science Association’s urban section. He received an M.P.A. from the Kennedy School of Government. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/aba0ead8314fd3c9f3057f31e7b6db91.jpg 28f04cf86b7afc27cd507d751583179e 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 PEOPLE 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 Matt Kaliner, Professor Subject The topic of the resource Matt Kaliner has been fascinated by urban culture since he was old enough to pedal his bicycle into – and all over – Washington. Attending Brandeis University, Class of 2000, for college, Kaliner has warmed up to Boston as an equally interesting mosaic of neighborhoods and a physical expression of public culture and difference. Although he still feels most at home exploring the city on bike or foot, he has found in sociology and spatial analysis a much more powerful set of tools for the systematic study of the city. Kaliner’s dissertation draws on a series of life-long interests, from the fear of crime and real estate markets to the spatial dynamics of artistic communities, to explore culture and neighborhood change in the contemporary American city. He has published papers on the cultural and political divergence of Vermont and New Hampshire (with Jason Kaufman), the political philosophy of Michael Oakeshott (with Steven Teles), the uses of social science data archives (with Jacqueline James), and political protest patterns and tactics (with Bayliss Camp). His undergraduate senior thesis considered the sociology of intellectuals in the work of Karl Mannheim and Pierre Bourdieu, speaking to his love of abstract theory as well as grounded research. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/6d0216b235ff512a98875ff02ece4337.jpg 0fcbd9a7051c2be8444620bfa78c0ae5 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 Justin Stern, Teaching Fellow Description An account of the resource Justin D. Stern is a third-year PhD Student whose research focuses on the history and theory of urban form in rapidly urbanizing regions. His dissertation project studies the interplay of industrialization, institutional development and spatial morphology in major cities in East and Southeast Asia. Questions addressed in Justin’s research include: In what ways do the contemporary urban forms of cities in Asia, and their dominant building typologies, reflect the economic and political restructuring of the previous half century? What role do large-scale, diversified corporate conglomerates, such as Samsung Group in Korea and Ayala Corporation in the Philippines, play in urban development? And how can the experience of Seoul and other cities in East Asia, as inductive role models, better inform rapidly developing regions in Southeast Asia and beyond? Justin holds a Master of Urban Planning (MUP) from Harvard University and completed his bachelor’s degree at Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Oxford. During the 2012-2013 academic year, Justin served as a Fulbright Fellow in Seoul, South Korea and was the recipient of a Harvard-Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship to support comparative fieldwork. He has presented his work at numerous venues including The East Asia Regional Organization for Planning and Human Settlements World Congress; TedxTaipei; Hong Kong University; Leiden University; the Cosmopolitan China Conference at the University of Manchester (UK); the University of Seoul; and the Pakistan Urban Forum in Karachi. In addition to working on his dissertation, Justin currently serves as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Design. He is also finalizing a short documentary film and exhibition on trans-border infrastructure in Central Asia. Prior to enrolling at Harvard, Justin worked in the international development arena and in affordable housing development in New York City. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/266854b229a92aa68803745146f83441.png 6ff85ac45efba079bcb888ace8c10f8b 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 Final Projects Spring 2015 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 A Community Resource? An Examination of the Museum of Fine Arts’ Hours of Voluntary Admission Fee Description An account of the resource Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) is ranked as one of the “most comprehensive art museums in the world,” boasting a collection of nearly 450,000 works—ranging from Ancient Egyptian artifacts to pieces of Contemporary Art. Access to such an incredible institution does not come without a corresponding price, though. During most hours, a general admission ticket to the Museum costs $25 for an adult, which is not affordable for many visitors. Fortunately, the Museum has launched several initiatives to help make the MFA’s collection and programming more accessible. One of the oldest and most well known of these initiatives is their hours of voluntary admission fee: on Wednesday nights after 4pm, visitors can choose whether to make a contribution to the MFA during their visit or to simply enter the Museum for free. Offering hours of voluntary admission fee has furthered the MFA in its mission of “serving a wide variety of people through direct encounters with works of art” by providing an opportunity and an incentive for people from diverse geographical regions and of diverse socio-economic backgrounds to come together and learn from the Museum’s collection and programs. After almost 100 informal interviews with Boston residents and visitors to the MFA, four sessions of observations at the MFA, and an examination of data released by the MFA, I learned that this this initiative does not, however, advance another of goal of the MFA—“to benefit the City of Boston”—for primarily four reasons. First, the hours of voluntary admission fee do not benefit only residents of Boston. Similarly, they do not benefit only people who would otherwise face financial barriers to visiting the Museum. Furthermore, this initiative alone does not address other barriers some residents face to accessing the Museum (including the price of commuting to the museum, lack of flexibility in scheduling visits to the Museum, and a lack of awareness about opportunities to access the Museum.) Finally, the relatively busy hours of voluntary admission fee could possibly interfere with visitors’ ability to learn about or become interested in the MFA’s collection, which works against the Museum’s “ultimate aim...to encourage inquiry and to heighten public understanding and appreciation of the visual world.” Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sarah Allen https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/f7ccf77c0ddd31aed4e1c0ce4b620863.jpg a25594dad314a7c4048c232ec83bfbb0 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 Final Projects Spring 2015 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 God Save the Red Sox Description An account of the resource I use Emelie Durkheim’s book, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, as a mechanism with which to analyze how sports, specifically the Red Sox, function in the city of Boston. Rooting my discussion in the theme of the book, that religion operates as a set of beliefs and practices through which society forms and maintains a unique identity, I cast being “Bostonian,” as a religion. Further, I make the claim that the Red Sox serve as a unifying factor within the “religion,” to which Bostonians attribute their feelings of community. To explore this claim, I interviewed Bostonians wearing Red Sox paraphernalia; hats or t-shirts, or Bostonians with tattoos of either the city, or the Red Sox. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabrielle Bausano https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/cebd2072cac625a0ec1c0505c4da782e.png 372c5593b609193329f7bd897ee1d232 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 Final Projects Spring 2015 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 An Investigation of College Students in the Greater Boston Area: How Frequency of Interactions With the City Shape Students’ Social Lives Description An account of the resource Although college students make up 9.98% of the average United States metro area population, college students comprise over 40% of the Boston metro area population. With over 50 colleges and universities located in the greater Boston area, and since students account for such a sizeable percentage of the overall population and surrounding areas, college students in the Boston area find themselves in close proximity to myriad other college students--providing opportunities for varied social interaction both with the city itself and each other. I explore how college students in the Greater Boston Area interact with the city of Boston, how this differs by school, and how these findings shape students’ overall “view” of the city through interviewing four students (one from BU, BC, Harvard MIT) and providing structure for further research. Overall, Boston serves as a bridge for its college students’ social interactions; a centralized platform through which students across universities engage in activities ranging from a Harvard student meeting a friend from Boston College at Cafeteria for dinner, attending a Red Sox game on a Monday night, bar hopping with friends for a 21st birthday, visiting the Institute of Contemporary Art, and so much more. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Caitlin Begg https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/816c0a706ae94b085dc3ab1cfbd709b6.png 23bff0a1694983fa1dcfbb05c323ab0b 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 Final Projects Spring 2015 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 No Perfect Place Description An account of the resource 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 Market and the Harbor, Boylston, Concord, a fun poem about all the men's restrooms in Boston, and a retrospective about Harvard. The included picture I took at the Norman B. Leventhal Park with a girl I was on a date with. I had her take a picture in my picture to demonstrate how places take on different meanings for everyone. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Aaron Blumenthal https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/55f34dea4e3dbeac9ea0fad5311b4a6a.jpg 3c835fc2dcc405d6393a0b5860c6b8ee 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 Final Projects Spring 2015 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 Women and the Boston Marathon: The Fight for Equality Description An account of the resource The Boston Marathon has been a definitive cultural and social event in Boston since 1897. Each year schools across Boston close for Marathon Monday and thousands of people flock to the Finish Line to cheer on friends, family, and even strangers. But for the first 75 years of its existence, the Boston Marathon only celebrated the physical triumphs of half the world: men. Although other marathons began to accept female entrants earlier, Boston held on to its boys-only reputation for longer, with men even physically pulling women out of the race when they tried to enter. The changing experiences of woman pioneers in the late 1960’s fighting for their right to run, the early 1980’s adjusting to their new status, and finally today fully embracing equality tells the story of how Boston grew to embrace female runners. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kate Buellesbach https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/67a5952e6cefb8fa691f07379876903e.png 93d2c8c5fbc81a9f82cb7aeb37fbb2a9 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 Final Projects Spring 2015 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 Visits to the New England Aquarium and Franklin Park Zoo Description An account of the resource My paper focused on the roles that institutions like the aquarium and zoo play in a city like Boston. Both institutions offer people a unique experience to see and sometimes interact with animals that are usually only seen on television or films since they come from all around the world. Some of the questions that I’ve tried to answer are how do people explore these sites? What are the things people do and don’t do? Who goes to these sites? Do they promote social cohesion among its community members or is social mixing confined to the group one comes in? Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Naddy Camacho