Bridge the gap (Part 1 of 5)

Boston’s population is at a 50-year high (with an 8 percent increase by 2030), but levels of car ownership and vehicle miles traveled are declining.

Bridge the gap (Part 2 of 5)

Every day, long before the sun is up, truckloads of produce from around the country arrive in Massachusetts at the Chelsea Market.

Bridge the gap (Part 3 of 5)

Borders and the names of the spaces within them are useful in that they help us to organize our experience, direct our actions, and condition our behavior.

Bridge the gap (Part 4 of 5)

In the latter half of the 19th century, New England was knitted together by networks of railroads extending north, south, and west from Boston, built by private companies operating from eight facilities on the city’s edges.

Bridge the gap (Part 5 of 5)

Boston is a city of neighborhoods in a region well known as a patchwork of towns with sharply contrasting physical and economic characteristics.

Is the company town coming back? Well, not in the deliberate way of its forbears, like Pullman, Illinois, or Hershey, Pennsylvania.