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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…

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The map shows that although there are segmented racial neighborhoods within South End, the association of social disorder and crime is not perfectly correlated with the presence of minorities. Overlaying the crime map with the race by census block…

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Though homeless shelters are a vital part of the livelihood, and survival, of many of Boston’s homeless, bouncing in and out of shelters is nowhere near a long-term solution to the problem of homelessness, or a stable lifestyle for homeless…

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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…

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The idea for this project stemmed from that fact that I was very interested in the oral histories of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. I had a very personal connection to the bombings as I have been a life-long resident of Boston, and I came up with…
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