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The Just City

HIST 1515: Race, Class, and Communities (Instructor: Hongyan Yang)

ENVS 1515: Nature, Environment, and Infrastructure (Instructor: Courtney Humphries)

Boston

Enduring Question: What is a just city?

Cities are diverse and dynamic places characterized by social and environmental inequalities across space, with some areas subject to greater levels of poverty, economic disinvestment, and public health risks than others. This unevenness has led to greater calls for social and environmental justice. But how do these inequalities arise, and what makes a more just city? These paired Enduring Questions courses investigated these questions from social, spatial, and environmental perspectives. As part of the Just City courses, students developed ArcGIS Story Maps that present environmental and historical research in neighborhoods in the Boston area.

Student Projects

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The Unspoken Crises of Allston-Brighton

Brendan Keenan, Matt Alesse, Atticus Crothers

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School Desegregation and Heat in Dorchester

Eleanor McSwain, H Edwards

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The North End

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Amanda Reetz, Olivia DiRenzo, Luke Macdonald

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Mattapan

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Ava Maloco, Tayler Chauvette, David Feng

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Inequity in Boston's Seaport District

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Keira Dubitsky, Lily Ornstein, Katie Kissell

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South Boston: School Desegregation and Moakley Park

Abby Regan, Audra Foti, Julia Brancaccio

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Justice in East Boston

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Kayla Perlera, Shay Benjamin

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Green Space and Gentrification in Chinatown

Allie Senn, Rob Vollbrecht, Ryan Murray

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Roxbury

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William Streit, Aidan Mehta

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The Land Use Dilemma in Newton

Mai Gao, Tianyu Cao, James Dilworth

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Finding a Sense of Place in Jamaica Plain

Will Martino

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Gendered and Green Spaces in Cambridge

Emily Short, Nyla Mucius

Thank You!

Melanie Hubbard, Boston College Libraries

Enid, Karr, Boston College Libararies

Bee Lehman, Boston College Libraries

Lydia Lowe, Chinatown Community Land Trust

Garrett Nelson, Leventhal Map & Education Center

Katherine Willis, Boston College Data Visualization Lab

 

Core Curriculum, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences

 

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