- March 8, 2021
- Rachel Sharer
Monopolizing Streets
Monopoly: an exciting and fun way to look at mapping a city, or an insidious history of commodification and segregation?
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- March 4, 2021
- Garrett Dash Nelson
Making water into gold
How much of Boston’s present-day property value would have been underwater in 1630?
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- March 2, 2021
- Rachel Mead
Transit History with the BRA
A close look at one of our newly accessible maps on Boston development history
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- February 23, 2021
- Garrett Dash Nelson
Coming in 2022: our exhibition on environmental justice
Our forthcoming exhibition “More or Less in Common” will explore the geographic relationship between environmental management and historic patterns of injustice
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- February 23, 2021
- Michelle LeBlanc
Black Radical History Research at LMEC
An Interview with Dr. Kerri Greenidge
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- February 18, 2021
- LMEC Staff
Black History: more than just a month
A roundup of some of our Black history posts from over the years
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- February 10, 2021
- Rachel Mead
Archaeology and Atlascope
How the City Archaeologist of Boston uses our tool to dig
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- January 29, 2021
- Garrett Dash Nelson
Maps that will make your head spin
Transforming our panoramic views into virtual reality offers an opportunity to jump inside the map’s perspective
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- January 28, 2021
- Garrett Dash Nelson and Lauren Chen
A new view into urban renewal in Boston
Announcing 124 newly-digitized objects from the Boston Redevelopment Authority Collection
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- January 20, 2021
- Rachel Mead
Highlights from Jamaica Plain By Map
Revisit some of the places we visited in our Atlascope tour of Jamaica Plain
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