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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Project Goals<br />
<strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Road</strong> has a long history, a complicated<br />
present, and a future filled with opportunity. Over<br />
the past decade, organizations including the<br />
Boston Planning and Development Agency, the<br />
Boston Department of Transportation, and the<br />
Boston Society of Architects have contributed<br />
to the conversation surrounding <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Road</strong><br />
and the vision for what it could become. Rather<br />
than add to this vision, our research focused on<br />
consolidating previous studies, recommendations,<br />
and outreach methods in an effort to inform LSA’s<br />
future community engagement along the corridor.<br />
This consolidation will not only better inform future<br />
action, but it will also help demonstrate how the<br />
City of Boston is working towards its published goals<br />
and plans. We hope this synthesis will ultimately<br />
help LSA influence the city to prioritize action on this<br />
project.<br />
In producing this report, the following questions<br />
guided our research:<br />
1. What data and information currently exist for<br />
the <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Road</strong> corridor?<br />
2. What are LSA and the <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Road</strong><br />
stakeholders’ short and long term priorities?<br />
3. How can LSA effectively engage and<br />
communicate with those who live along and<br />
utilize <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Road</strong>?<br />
4. How can our team develop materials and<br />
synthesize data to best serve LSA’s community<br />
engagement strategies?<br />
5. How can we package our findings in a way<br />
that helps LSA in their ultimate goal to influence<br />
the city to prioritize <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Road</strong>?<br />
18 <strong>Activating</strong> <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Road</strong>: <strong>Reframing</strong> a <strong>Missing</strong> <strong>Link</strong>
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