- 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.
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- Jan 31, 2022
- Michelle LeBlanc
Maptivists at the Margarita Muñiz Academy
Our education team spent the first two weeks of January teaching an intersession on critical map literacy to a small group of seniors at the Margarita Muñiz Academy.
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- Oct 26, 2021
- Michelle LeBlanc
Beyond the Map: Engaging Audiences with GIS at the Leventhal Map & Education Center
Map Center staff recently published an article in the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries that highlights the Center’s geospatial data work, including use of our public data portal and our Maptivists initiative with Boston high schools.
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- Jun 17, 2021
- Lynn Brown
Highlights from Maptivist student projects
High school students working with our educators explored the question of how racial ideas become spatial practice in Boston
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