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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Source: MassGIS, ACS 2017 (5-year)<br />
Figure 20: Percentage of Population Under 18<br />
Among residents in the <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Road</strong> corridor, 23.6% are children under the age of<br />
18. According to the City of Boston, Dorchester and Roxbury have some of the highest<br />
percentages of teenagers in the City of Boston.<br />
36 <strong>Activating</strong> <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>Road</strong>: <strong>Reframing</strong> a <strong>Missing</strong> <strong>Link</strong>