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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…

In order to learn more about the different neighborhoods of Boston, I decided to study the people taking various bus routes from Harvard and record their demographics as well as their interactions with each other. I ended up taking the 86 to…

With my paper, I am examining Fenway Park in the greater context of the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood. I originally hoped to hear from someone on the Fenway Community Development Committee, but no one returned my correspondences in time. So, I…

My dad grew up in a small part of Boston called Readville, located in the southern-most tip of Hyde Park between Dedham and Milton. He grew up playing baseball and hockey in the public parks of Readville with all of his friends. These friends, the…

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…

My paper is about the Fenway Victory Gardens and questions the continued promotion of its existence as an urban garden for the Boston community since World War II. Because it is obviously no longer in use as a World War II Victory Garden, I was…

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…

This paper discusses the recent addition of the topic of Boston’s court-ordered desegregation and the resulting busing riots into the Boston Public Schools history and social studies curriculum. It examines the reasons why the topic was not…