- December 7, 2022
- Ian Spangler
The two ways to make something louder
How noise pollutes even when nobody’s listening
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- November 6, 2022
- Ian Spangler
How well do you know your Massachusetts towns?
Silly games can open new windows into map collections
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- 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?
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- 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!
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- 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?
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- September 2, 2022
- Rachel Sharer
The Spirit of Radio
Explore some new and old radio maps in our collection, and learn a bit about the history of radio communications.
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- August 25, 2022
- Garrett Dash Nelson
Surveying all of Massachusetts in the town plans collections
Two digital collections from the Massachusetts Archives capture the micro-scaled geographies of Massachusetts towns in the Early Republic period
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- August 12, 2022
- Kyler Hoogendoorn-Ecker
Pictorial Maps of Americana
What can pictorial maps from the mid-twentieth century tell us about American identity?
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