Articles

December 16, 2022
Ezra Acevedo

An Atlas of My Hometown: Georeferencing Familiar Places

A behind the scenes look at the process of georeferencing

December 7, 2022
Ian Spangler

The two ways to make something louder

How noise pollutes even when nobody’s listening

November 6, 2022
Ian Spangler

How well do you know your Massachusetts towns?

Silly games can open new windows into map collections

October 21, 2022
Tess D. McCann

Always Devoted to Such Use: Sacrifice Zones and Storage on the Boston-Revere Border

A new logistics center in Revere tells a familiar story and poses the question: how inextricable is land use from the land itself?

October 20, 2022
Ian Spangler

Now accepting submissions to LMEC’s Cartography Challenges

Submit your cartographic work for a chance at prize money & exhibition in the LMEC's digital collections!

September 24, 2022
Ezra Acevedo

Olmsted to Airport: East Boston and Urban Development

East Boston was once home to one of Fredrick Law Olmsted’s parks, now it contains Logan Airport. How did this neighborhood change?

September 19, 2022
Megan Nally

The (unrealized) Metropolitan Master Highway Plan of 1948

The Southwest Expressway and Inner Belt Highway projects were both proposed in the Master Highway Plan for the Boston Metropolitan Area in 1948. Designed to cut through densely-populated areas inside and outside of Boston, both projects were eventually halted and abandoned in the early 1970s.

September 12, 2022
Kyler Hoogendoorn-Ecker

Inviting to all: The geography of the Boston Public Schools exam invitation system

In attempts to make the admissions process more equitable, the system for exam school invitations at BPS has changed three times in as many years. How can maps help us make sense of these changes?