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It's at the Boston Convention and Exhibition
Center.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29
8:00 am Charrette
8:00 am–6:00 pm #1 Saco, Maine and Biddeford,
Maine
9:00 am Charrette
9:00 am–5:00 pm #2 JFK/ UMass Station, South
Boston
12:30 pm MobileWorkshop
12:30 pm–6:00 pm #1 The Old Mill City of Lowell
1:00 pm MobileWorkshops
1:00 pm–6:00 pm #2 Magic Express
1:00 pm–5:00 pm #3 A Tale of Two TODs
1:00 pm–6:00 pm #4 Bikes and the MBTA
6:00 pm Advocates Reception
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30
7:15 am MobileWorkshop
7:15 am–11:30 am #5 Fairmount Corridor
8:00 am MobileWorkshops
8:00 am–1:00 pm #7 The City of Champions TOD Tour
8:00 am–3:00 pm #8 Merrimack Valley TOD: Haverhill
and Lawrence
8:00 am–12:00 pm #9 Meds and Eds
8:00 am–11:00 am Symposium: New Starts
9:00 am MobileWorkshop
9:00 am–4:00 pm #6 High-Speed Rail and Providence,
Rhode Island
12:00 noon–1:30 pm Plenary Session
1:30 pm MobileWorkshop
1:30 pm–5:00 pm #10 Three MBTA Stations, Three
Boston TODs
2:00 pm–5:00 pm Rail~Volution 101
2:00 pm–3:30 pm ConcurrentWorkshops
6:30 pm–8:00 pm Welcome Reception
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31
7:00 am–8:00 am NAPTA Event
8:00 am–9:30 am Plenary Session
9:30 am MobileWorkshop
9:30 am–12:00 noon #11 Brookline – the Quintessential
Streetcar Suburb
9:30 am–1:00 pm #12 TOD and Sports
10:00 am–11:30 am ConcurrentWorkshops
12:00 noon–1:30 pm Lunchtime Opportunities
1:30 pm MobileWorkshop
1:30 pm–5:30 pm #13 South Boston Waterfront
1:30 pm–3:00 pm ConcurrentWorkshops
3:30 pm–5:30 pm TODMarketplace
3:30 pm–5:00 pm ConcurrentWorkshops
5:00 pm–6:30 pm Trade Show Reception
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1
7:00 am–8:00 am Community Streetcar
Coalition Gathering
8:00 am MobileWorkshop
8:00 am–12:00 noon #14 The Southwest Corridor
8:00 am–9:30 am ConcurrentWorkshops
9:00 am MobileWorkshop
9:00 am–12:00 noon #15 Emerald Necklace
9:00 am–12:00 noon #16 Rose Kennedy Greenway
10:00 am–11:30 am ConcurrentWorkshops
12:00 noon–1:30 pm Plenary Session
1 THE OLDMILL CITY OF LOWELL
Thursday, October 29 12:30 pm-6:00 pm
Ride the MTBA commuter rail to downtown Lowell, the
nation’s first 19th-century planned industrial community.
Lowell is defined by a network of industrial canals fed by the
Merrimack River. After falling into typical mill-town disinvestment,
Lowell has spent the last three decades attracting
extensive mixed-use reinvestment, much of it involving historic
mill complexes. The area also includes a national park,
sustainable CBD, vibrant arts community, state university and
community college, and professional sports and concert
venues. These investments are all served
by transit, and Lowell is now planning
a downtown circulator streetcar.
Cost: $35
2 MAGIC EXPRESS
Thursday, October 29 1:00 pm-6:00 pm
Celebrate the magic in Salem, Mass., and get a
taste of the city’s high festivities this time of year while
touring one of the Commonwealth’s oldest and most densely
developed maritime communities. The MBTA commuter rail
will take you from downtown Boston to the heart of downtown
Salem. Then tour the city’s key points of interest while a guide
points out the community’s development and transportation
issues, such as TOD, downtown revitalization and historic
preservation. Participants will have the option of remaining in
Salem, or returning by MBTA commuter rail or by catamaran.
Cost: $35
3 A TALE OF TWO TODS
Thursday, October 29 1:00 pm-5:00 pm
Station Landing in Medford and Assembly Square in
Sommerville are two major TOD opportunities on opposite
shores of the Mystic River, just north of Boston. Traveling by
subway and bus, participants in this mobile workshop will
compare and contrast how each site has approached creating
vibrant, mixed-use development on underused urban
land. Of particular interest is the impact of one site
having rapid transit from the outset (the MBTA’s
Orange Line), while the other has relied on bus connections.
Local officials and development teams will share the
stories of these two developing TODs.
Cost: $35
4 BIKES AND THEMBTA (BIKE TOUR)
Thursday, October 29 1:00 pm-6:00 pm
Get a behind-the-scenes look at Boston's
transportation infrastructure as it relates to
bikes. Ride a bike and explore how Boston cyclists use multimodal
transportation to navigate the city and surrounding area.
Trains, buses, boats, and pedal power all interact to get
Bostonians from Point A to Point B. This tour will cover everything
from major hubs such as South Station, popular commuter
routes such as the Rose Kennedy Greenway, and subway stations
that promote bicycling through expanded bike parking facilities.
Starting in downtown Boston, this tour will give you a feel for
how urban planning and transportation design affects the daily
experience of people living in the city.
Cost: $50 (includes cost of bike rental)
5 FAIRMOUNT CORRIDOR
Friday, October 30 7:15 am-11:30 am
This mobile tour showcases how community activists have begun
restoring disinvested neighborhoods by successfully advocating
for better transit equity and affordable housing. Take the Silver
Line and the commuter rail to traditional railroad and streetcarera
neighborhoods. Observe how to empower lower-income
communities to develop TOD within an existing, densely developed
environment and how to engage residents in welcoming
new development. Also hear from local community development
corporations and community-based organizations that
created a vision for the Fairmount Corridor that now
is becoming real.
Cost: $35
6 HIGH-SPEED RAIL AND PROVIDENCE,
RHODE ISLAND
Friday, October 30 9:00 am-4:00 pm
Hop aboard Amtrak’s Acela service at Boston South Station to
experience high-speed rail service and the beautiful city of
Providence, Rhode Island, one of the country’s revitalization
success stories. The area’s high-density, mixed-use, transitfriendly,
downtown development was spurred by Providence
Place, a shopping mall located across the street from the train
station and with a below-market parking supply and substantial
walk-in business. Come see how a mall can enliven a downtown
instead of detracting from it and hear how commuter
and Amtrak rail service has created an economic
synergy between Boston and Providence.
Cost: $45
7 THE CITY OF CHAMPIONS TOD TOUR
Friday, October 30 8:00 am-1:00 pm
Take the commuter rail to the city of Brockton,
which has worked proactively for many years to counteract
socioeconomic distress in its community – by improving its infrastructure,
reforming regulations and marketing its strengths. At
the heart of downtown, the Brockton Area Transit Authority
(BAT) has created a multi-phased intermodal center. In addition,
local and regional bus service, plus commuter rail, operate from
this station. This transit investment has spurred redevelopment of
adjacent industrial sites for mixed and residential use. Learn
about these impressive revitalization efforts and the lessons
learned that are applicable to many other communities.
Cost $35
8 MERRIMACK VALLEY TOD:
HAVERHILL AND LAWRENCE
Friday, October 30 8:00 am-3:00 pm
Hop aboard the commuter rail to compare and contrast how
two older mill cities have been designing smart growth strategies
that weather economic cycles. These two communities share the
same MBTA line and the same river, have similar industrial legacies,
but have very different physical development patterns and
socioeconomic climates. The tour will focus on the importance
of bottom-up planning, community engagement, capacity
building for non-profit organizations, and holistic approaches
to breathing new life into old cities.
Cost: $35
9 MEDS AND EDS
Friday, October 30 8:00 am-12:00 noon
Tour key transportation areas serving the Longwood Medical and
Academic Area. This busy life sciences district features private
and public bus services, light rail and commuter rail access.
A bus rapid transit tunnel is envisioned for the future as part of
a seven-city Ring alternative to Boston’s radial transit system.
Of particular interest is a mixed-use development near the
famous Fenway Park, which will provide improved commuter
rail access, housing, office space and employee and
Red Sox game parking.
Cost: $35
10 THREEMBTA STATIONS, THREE BOSTON TODS
Friday, October 30 1:30 pm-5:00 pm
A single development team has built three landmark TOD
residential projects in three different sections of Boston. All
three projects are intimately tied to transit, all involved highly
complex transactions and challenging market conditions, all
had significant community involvement and public-private
collaboration, all are mixed-income – and all were built.
Ride the Silver, Red, Blue and Green lines to experience
these projects at Ashmont, Maverick Square and North Station.
Learn how these three transit-oriented projects developed
community support, public-private collaboration,
and have become highly successful.
Cost $35
11 BROOKLINE – THE QUINTESSENTIAL
STREETCAR SUBURB
Saturday, October 31 9:30 am-12:00 noon
Brookline literally grew along its three transit lines, which
today are branches of the MBTA’s Green Line light-rail system.
While the community has strong ties to Boston, it remains
an independent town. Brookline is home to thousands of
households with transit commuters, and its four local business
districts are located along the Beacon Street “C” Line. See
Brookline by transit and walk around some of its most popular
neighborhoods. Get the inside story from local
residents and from an author who specializes
in suburbs served by streetcars.
Cost: $35
12 TOD AND SPORTS
Saturday, October 31 9:30 am-1:00 pm
During the past decade, Boston’s Fenway neighborhood has
been engaged in a remarkable evolution. Beginning with the
Red Sox organization’s commitment to the
neighborhood in 2002 and continuing with a
community-led re-zoning process in 2004,
Fenway now is seeing an unprecedented level of private
investment. City and state officials also are responding with a
number of transportation improvements intended to ensure that
the Fenway neighborhood becomes increasingly transit oriented.
Join this mobile workshop via subway and walking – and see first
hand how sports and TOD can play ball.
Cost: $35
13 SOUTH BOSTONWATERFRONT
Saturday, October 31 1:30 pm-5:30 pm
Walk outside the conference hotel and experience a megascale,
real-time, in-the-ground TOD at a high-profile location
in Boston’s core. This mobile workshop will cover the South
Boston Waterfront district on foot and provide the inside story
from key decision-makers on how 13 million square feet of
mixed-use development has been built, permitted, or actively
planned, with fewer than 10,000 parking spaces. This mixeduse
district, which includes the Convention Center and
our conference hotel, is part of a larger expanse
of filled tidelands that have been home to port and
marine-related industry.
Cost: $35
14 THE SOUTHWEST CORRIDOR
Sunday, November 1 8:00 am-12:00 noon
Initially developed as a railway line, the Southwest Corridor was
built as an elevated embankment that divided neighborhoods for
most of a century. At one point, the corridor was in danger
of becoming a super highway through some of
Boston’s most densely populated neighborhoods.
A wave of community activism helped nix that
idea and led to an investment in transit and
community development. The corridor was further improved by
creating a new four-mile linear corridor park. In this workshop,
participants will travel by subway and then walk around portions
of the corridor park, as well as around several stations to view
development there.
Cost: $35
15 EMERALD NECKLACE (BIKE TOUR)
Sunday, November 1 9:00 am-12:00 noon
Discover Frederick Law Olmsted's famous system
of parks on this bicycle tour of the historic
Emerald Necklace. From the shaded boulevard
on Commonwealth Avenue to the popular shores of
Jamaica Pond to the winding paths of the Arnold Arboretum,
this chain of gardens, reserves, and open space serves as an
oasis in the middle of a bustling city. Bostonians have enjoyed
this eclectic work by America’s first landscape architect for
more than 100 years and now are looking to reclaim this greenway
for eco-friendly recreation and transportation opportunities.
Come enjoy a route that's a favorite among locals and the best
way to see the green side of Boston.
Cost: $50 (includes bike rentals)
16 ROSE KENNEDY GREENWAY
Sunday, November 1 9:00 am–12:00 noon
Come walk the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway and enjoy
the gardens, plazas and tree-lined promenades of one of
Boston’s most famous areas. The Greenway offers beautiful
places for relaxation within the rhythm of the urban environment.
Hear how community and political leaders seized the
opportunity to enhance Boston’s quality of life when the Big
Dig project plunged previously elevated roadways underground
and the city found itself rich in prime urban land. Parks and
gardens now connect some of Boston’s oldest, most diverse
and vibrant neighborhoods. Learn how local activists
helped shape the project, how the Greenway is
now shaping downtown development, and about
the challenges that still lie ahead.
Cost: $35
Some of these actually seem interesting, they really expose the gems of Boston.
Center.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29
8:00 am Charrette
8:00 am–6:00 pm #1 Saco, Maine and Biddeford,
Maine
9:00 am Charrette
9:00 am–5:00 pm #2 JFK/ UMass Station, South
Boston
12:30 pm MobileWorkshop
12:30 pm–6:00 pm #1 The Old Mill City of Lowell
1:00 pm MobileWorkshops
1:00 pm–6:00 pm #2 Magic Express
1:00 pm–5:00 pm #3 A Tale of Two TODs
1:00 pm–6:00 pm #4 Bikes and the MBTA
6:00 pm Advocates Reception
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30
7:15 am MobileWorkshop
7:15 am–11:30 am #5 Fairmount Corridor
8:00 am MobileWorkshops
8:00 am–1:00 pm #7 The City of Champions TOD Tour
8:00 am–3:00 pm #8 Merrimack Valley TOD: Haverhill
and Lawrence
8:00 am–12:00 pm #9 Meds and Eds
8:00 am–11:00 am Symposium: New Starts
9:00 am MobileWorkshop
9:00 am–4:00 pm #6 High-Speed Rail and Providence,
Rhode Island
12:00 noon–1:30 pm Plenary Session
1:30 pm MobileWorkshop
1:30 pm–5:00 pm #10 Three MBTA Stations, Three
Boston TODs
2:00 pm–5:00 pm Rail~Volution 101
2:00 pm–3:30 pm ConcurrentWorkshops
6:30 pm–8:00 pm Welcome Reception
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31
7:00 am–8:00 am NAPTA Event
8:00 am–9:30 am Plenary Session
9:30 am MobileWorkshop
9:30 am–12:00 noon #11 Brookline – the Quintessential
Streetcar Suburb
9:30 am–1:00 pm #12 TOD and Sports
10:00 am–11:30 am ConcurrentWorkshops
12:00 noon–1:30 pm Lunchtime Opportunities
1:30 pm MobileWorkshop
1:30 pm–5:30 pm #13 South Boston Waterfront
1:30 pm–3:00 pm ConcurrentWorkshops
3:30 pm–5:30 pm TODMarketplace
3:30 pm–5:00 pm ConcurrentWorkshops
5:00 pm–6:30 pm Trade Show Reception
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1
7:00 am–8:00 am Community Streetcar
Coalition Gathering
8:00 am MobileWorkshop
8:00 am–12:00 noon #14 The Southwest Corridor
8:00 am–9:30 am ConcurrentWorkshops
9:00 am MobileWorkshop
9:00 am–12:00 noon #15 Emerald Necklace
9:00 am–12:00 noon #16 Rose Kennedy Greenway
10:00 am–11:30 am ConcurrentWorkshops
12:00 noon–1:30 pm Plenary Session
1 THE OLDMILL CITY OF LOWELL
Thursday, October 29 12:30 pm-6:00 pm
Ride the MTBA commuter rail to downtown Lowell, the
nation’s first 19th-century planned industrial community.
Lowell is defined by a network of industrial canals fed by the
Merrimack River. After falling into typical mill-town disinvestment,
Lowell has spent the last three decades attracting
extensive mixed-use reinvestment, much of it involving historic
mill complexes. The area also includes a national park,
sustainable CBD, vibrant arts community, state university and
community college, and professional sports and concert
venues. These investments are all served
by transit, and Lowell is now planning
a downtown circulator streetcar.
Cost: $35
2 MAGIC EXPRESS
Thursday, October 29 1:00 pm-6:00 pm
Celebrate the magic in Salem, Mass., and get a
taste of the city’s high festivities this time of year while
touring one of the Commonwealth’s oldest and most densely
developed maritime communities. The MBTA commuter rail
will take you from downtown Boston to the heart of downtown
Salem. Then tour the city’s key points of interest while a guide
points out the community’s development and transportation
issues, such as TOD, downtown revitalization and historic
preservation. Participants will have the option of remaining in
Salem, or returning by MBTA commuter rail or by catamaran.
Cost: $35
3 A TALE OF TWO TODS
Thursday, October 29 1:00 pm-5:00 pm
Station Landing in Medford and Assembly Square in
Sommerville are two major TOD opportunities on opposite
shores of the Mystic River, just north of Boston. Traveling by
subway and bus, participants in this mobile workshop will
compare and contrast how each site has approached creating
vibrant, mixed-use development on underused urban
land. Of particular interest is the impact of one site
having rapid transit from the outset (the MBTA’s
Orange Line), while the other has relied on bus connections.
Local officials and development teams will share the
stories of these two developing TODs.
Cost: $35
4 BIKES AND THEMBTA (BIKE TOUR)
Thursday, October 29 1:00 pm-6:00 pm
Get a behind-the-scenes look at Boston's
transportation infrastructure as it relates to
bikes. Ride a bike and explore how Boston cyclists use multimodal
transportation to navigate the city and surrounding area.
Trains, buses, boats, and pedal power all interact to get
Bostonians from Point A to Point B. This tour will cover everything
from major hubs such as South Station, popular commuter
routes such as the Rose Kennedy Greenway, and subway stations
that promote bicycling through expanded bike parking facilities.
Starting in downtown Boston, this tour will give you a feel for
how urban planning and transportation design affects the daily
experience of people living in the city.
Cost: $50 (includes cost of bike rental)
5 FAIRMOUNT CORRIDOR
Friday, October 30 7:15 am-11:30 am
This mobile tour showcases how community activists have begun
restoring disinvested neighborhoods by successfully advocating
for better transit equity and affordable housing. Take the Silver
Line and the commuter rail to traditional railroad and streetcarera
neighborhoods. Observe how to empower lower-income
communities to develop TOD within an existing, densely developed
environment and how to engage residents in welcoming
new development. Also hear from local community development
corporations and community-based organizations that
created a vision for the Fairmount Corridor that now
is becoming real.
Cost: $35
6 HIGH-SPEED RAIL AND PROVIDENCE,
RHODE ISLAND
Friday, October 30 9:00 am-4:00 pm
Hop aboard Amtrak’s Acela service at Boston South Station to
experience high-speed rail service and the beautiful city of
Providence, Rhode Island, one of the country’s revitalization
success stories. The area’s high-density, mixed-use, transitfriendly,
downtown development was spurred by Providence
Place, a shopping mall located across the street from the train
station and with a below-market parking supply and substantial
walk-in business. Come see how a mall can enliven a downtown
instead of detracting from it and hear how commuter
and Amtrak rail service has created an economic
synergy between Boston and Providence.
Cost: $45
7 THE CITY OF CHAMPIONS TOD TOUR
Friday, October 30 8:00 am-1:00 pm
Take the commuter rail to the city of Brockton,
which has worked proactively for many years to counteract
socioeconomic distress in its community – by improving its infrastructure,
reforming regulations and marketing its strengths. At
the heart of downtown, the Brockton Area Transit Authority
(BAT) has created a multi-phased intermodal center. In addition,
local and regional bus service, plus commuter rail, operate from
this station. This transit investment has spurred redevelopment of
adjacent industrial sites for mixed and residential use. Learn
about these impressive revitalization efforts and the lessons
learned that are applicable to many other communities.
Cost $35
8 MERRIMACK VALLEY TOD:
HAVERHILL AND LAWRENCE
Friday, October 30 8:00 am-3:00 pm
Hop aboard the commuter rail to compare and contrast how
two older mill cities have been designing smart growth strategies
that weather economic cycles. These two communities share the
same MBTA line and the same river, have similar industrial legacies,
but have very different physical development patterns and
socioeconomic climates. The tour will focus on the importance
of bottom-up planning, community engagement, capacity
building for non-profit organizations, and holistic approaches
to breathing new life into old cities.
Cost: $35
9 MEDS AND EDS
Friday, October 30 8:00 am-12:00 noon
Tour key transportation areas serving the Longwood Medical and
Academic Area. This busy life sciences district features private
and public bus services, light rail and commuter rail access.
A bus rapid transit tunnel is envisioned for the future as part of
a seven-city Ring alternative to Boston’s radial transit system.
Of particular interest is a mixed-use development near the
famous Fenway Park, which will provide improved commuter
rail access, housing, office space and employee and
Red Sox game parking.
Cost: $35
10 THREEMBTA STATIONS, THREE BOSTON TODS
Friday, October 30 1:30 pm-5:00 pm
A single development team has built three landmark TOD
residential projects in three different sections of Boston. All
three projects are intimately tied to transit, all involved highly
complex transactions and challenging market conditions, all
had significant community involvement and public-private
collaboration, all are mixed-income – and all were built.
Ride the Silver, Red, Blue and Green lines to experience
these projects at Ashmont, Maverick Square and North Station.
Learn how these three transit-oriented projects developed
community support, public-private collaboration,
and have become highly successful.
Cost $35
11 BROOKLINE – THE QUINTESSENTIAL
STREETCAR SUBURB
Saturday, October 31 9:30 am-12:00 noon
Brookline literally grew along its three transit lines, which
today are branches of the MBTA’s Green Line light-rail system.
While the community has strong ties to Boston, it remains
an independent town. Brookline is home to thousands of
households with transit commuters, and its four local business
districts are located along the Beacon Street “C” Line. See
Brookline by transit and walk around some of its most popular
neighborhoods. Get the inside story from local
residents and from an author who specializes
in suburbs served by streetcars.
Cost: $35
12 TOD AND SPORTS
Saturday, October 31 9:30 am-1:00 pm
During the past decade, Boston’s Fenway neighborhood has
been engaged in a remarkable evolution. Beginning with the
Red Sox organization’s commitment to the
neighborhood in 2002 and continuing with a
community-led re-zoning process in 2004,
Fenway now is seeing an unprecedented level of private
investment. City and state officials also are responding with a
number of transportation improvements intended to ensure that
the Fenway neighborhood becomes increasingly transit oriented.
Join this mobile workshop via subway and walking – and see first
hand how sports and TOD can play ball.
Cost: $35
13 SOUTH BOSTONWATERFRONT
Saturday, October 31 1:30 pm-5:30 pm
Walk outside the conference hotel and experience a megascale,
real-time, in-the-ground TOD at a high-profile location
in Boston’s core. This mobile workshop will cover the South
Boston Waterfront district on foot and provide the inside story
from key decision-makers on how 13 million square feet of
mixed-use development has been built, permitted, or actively
planned, with fewer than 10,000 parking spaces. This mixeduse
district, which includes the Convention Center and
our conference hotel, is part of a larger expanse
of filled tidelands that have been home to port and
marine-related industry.
Cost: $35
14 THE SOUTHWEST CORRIDOR
Sunday, November 1 8:00 am-12:00 noon
Initially developed as a railway line, the Southwest Corridor was
built as an elevated embankment that divided neighborhoods for
most of a century. At one point, the corridor was in danger
of becoming a super highway through some of
Boston’s most densely populated neighborhoods.
A wave of community activism helped nix that
idea and led to an investment in transit and
community development. The corridor was further improved by
creating a new four-mile linear corridor park. In this workshop,
participants will travel by subway and then walk around portions
of the corridor park, as well as around several stations to view
development there.
Cost: $35
15 EMERALD NECKLACE (BIKE TOUR)
Sunday, November 1 9:00 am-12:00 noon
Discover Frederick Law Olmsted's famous system
of parks on this bicycle tour of the historic
Emerald Necklace. From the shaded boulevard
on Commonwealth Avenue to the popular shores of
Jamaica Pond to the winding paths of the Arnold Arboretum,
this chain of gardens, reserves, and open space serves as an
oasis in the middle of a bustling city. Bostonians have enjoyed
this eclectic work by America’s first landscape architect for
more than 100 years and now are looking to reclaim this greenway
for eco-friendly recreation and transportation opportunities.
Come enjoy a route that's a favorite among locals and the best
way to see the green side of Boston.
Cost: $50 (includes bike rentals)
16 ROSE KENNEDY GREENWAY
Sunday, November 1 9:00 am–12:00 noon
Come walk the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway and enjoy
the gardens, plazas and tree-lined promenades of one of
Boston’s most famous areas. The Greenway offers beautiful
places for relaxation within the rhythm of the urban environment.
Hear how community and political leaders seized the
opportunity to enhance Boston’s quality of life when the Big
Dig project plunged previously elevated roadways underground
and the city found itself rich in prime urban land. Parks and
gardens now connect some of Boston’s oldest, most diverse
and vibrant neighborhoods. Learn how local activists
helped shape the project, how the Greenway is
now shaping downtown development, and about
the challenges that still lie ahead.
Cost: $35
Some of these actually seem interesting, they really expose the gems of Boston.