The City of Boston wants to take steps now to mitigate the disastrous outcomes associated with predicted sea level rise in upcoming decades. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh laid out an ambitious vision for ...

If Boston is a “city of neighborhoods,” their boundaries are neither fixed nor uncontested, let alone waterproof. Or so it ...

BASED SOLELY ON. [MUSIC] YOUR ADDRESS. WHAT IF THERE WERE A TIME MACHINE THAT COULD FIT IN YOUR POCKET AND SHOW YOU INSTANTLY WHAT A PLACE LOOKED LIKE 100 YEARS AGO? WELL THERE IS. IT’S CALLED ATLAS ...

TELL THE STORY OF NORTH AMERICA. AT THE LEVENTHAL MAP CENTER. INSIDE THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY. THAT STORY STRETCHES BACK CENTURIES. MAPS AREN’T JUST STATIC DEPICTIONS OF THE WAY THE WORLD IS, BUT ...

Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of landscape architecture, once called Boston’s Emerald Necklace “the most important work of our profession now in hand.” His elegant system of parks tamed the Muddy ...

For almost two years, Boston Public Library intern Rachel Mead helped to create the library’s digital Atlascope. Incorporating historic maps of urban Boston, the tool lets users see how places have ...

Greater Boston is the 10th most populous metropolitan area in the country. But according to geographer Garrett Dash Nelson, that statistic doesn’t actually mean much. “An averaged-out stat doesn’t ...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on Monday quietly signed the City Council–approved redistricting map, making official newly redrawn voting district boundaries for the next municipal election. Wu’s press ...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has given the rubber stamp to a new electoral map passed by the City Council. She signed off on the map late Friday, days before a self-imposed deadline to finish the map to ...