Activating Columbia Road: Reframing a Missing Link

Glossary
Columbia Road Corridor: The 44 block
groups within ¼ mile of Columbia Road
Complete Neighborhoods: Places where
resident and business needs for work, living,
gathering, recreation, and health can be
met. (Boston Redevelopment Authority)
Complete Streets: Streets designed
and operated to enable safe use and
support mobility for all users. Those
include people of all ages and abilities,
regardless of whether they are travelling
as drivers, pedestrians, bicyclists, or public
transportation riders. (US DOT)
Community Development Corporation
(CDC): CDCs engage local residents
and businesses to work together to
undertake community development
programs, projects and activities, which
develop and improve urban, rural and
suburban communities in sustainable
ways that create and expand economic
opportunities for low- and moderateincome
people. (Massachusetts
Association of Community Development
Corporations)
Environmental Health: A holistic
consideration for the physical, chemical,
and biological factors external to a person,
and all the related factors impacting
behavior. (World Health Organization)
Environmental Justice: Neighborhoods
that meet one of more of the following
criteria: Block group whose annual median
household income is equal to or less than
65% of the statewide median ($62,072 in
2010); 25% or more of the residents identify
as a race other than white; 25% or more
of households have no one over the age
of 14 who speaks English only or very well.
(Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy
and Environmental Affairs)
Gentrification: The process of repairing
and rebuilding homes and businesses in
a deteriorating area (such as an urban
neighborhood) accompanied by an influx
of middle-class or affluent people and that
often results in the displacement of earlier,
usually poorer residents. (Merriam-Webster)
Green Gentrification: How green initiatives
cause and/or enhance gentrification
(Gould, Lewis)
Greenway: A corridor of undeveloped
land preserved for recreational use or
environmental protection. (Merriam-
Webster)
Linguistic Isolation: Households where
English speaking is limited. (US Census)
Placemaking: Grounded in having
communities imagine their uses of places
in ways that build on their site specificity
(DS4SI)
Request for Proposal: A project funding
announcement posted by a business
or organization for which companies
can place bids to complete the project
(Investopedia)
Sharrows: Road markings used to indicate
a shared lane environment for bicycles
and automobiles (National Association of
City Transportation Officials)
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