Articles

Jan 8, 2023
Ezra Acevedo

Where The Water Was

One-sixth of Boston sits on land that was once tidal estuaries, shallow marshes, and mud flats.

Dec 23, 2022
LMEC Staff

A preview of what's to come in 2023

Our gallery will see an exciting new change in 2023

Dec 16, 2022
Ezra Acevedo

An Atlas of My Hometown: Georeferencing Familiar Places

A behind the scenes look at the process of georeferencing

Dec 9, 2022
Megan Nally

The two ways to make something louder

How noise pollutes even when nobody's listening

Nov 6, 2022
Ian Spangler

How well do you know your Massachusetts towns?

Silly games can open new windows into map collections

Oct 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?

Oct 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!

Sep 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?

Sep 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.