Activating Columbia Road: Reframing a Missing Link
This report was guided by Field Projects, an Urban Planning practicum at Tufts University. Our team (Aqsa Butt, Xianzheng Fang, Marah Holland, Lev McCarthy, and Megan Morrow) was partnered with LivableStreets Alliance to consolidate previous studies, recommendations, and outreach methods relating to Columbia Road. This was in effort to inform Livable Streets’ future community engagement along the corridor.
This report was guided by Field Projects, an Urban Planning practicum at Tufts University. Our team (Aqsa Butt, Xianzheng Fang, Marah Holland, Lev McCarthy, and Megan Morrow) was partnered with LivableStreets Alliance to consolidate previous studies, recommendations, and outreach methods relating to Columbia Road. This was in effort to inform Livable Streets’ future community engagement along the corridor.
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Figure 3: <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Road</strong>, 1948 Figure 4: <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Road</strong>, 2019<br />
<strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Road</strong> has drastically changed since<br />
Olmsted’s time. What used to be a dirt boulevard<br />
for carriages and pedestrians is now a busy<br />
thoroughfare bisected by a sparsely planted<br />
median. Despite these changes, there is no doubt<br />
that a redesign of the corridor could still offer<br />
opportunities to improve mobility, public health,<br />
environmental justice, and placemaking along the<br />
corridor.<br />
To this end, the City of Boston, as well as<br />
several other planning, design, and advocacy<br />
organizations, have proposed projects to turn this<br />
vision of a greenway into a reality.<br />
Figure 5: The Emerald Necklace and <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Road</strong> (in Orange)<br />
14 <strong>Activating</strong> <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Road</strong>: <strong>Reframing</strong> a <strong>Missing</strong> <strong>Link</strong>
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