The Boston Marathon, one of the seven World Marathon Majors, celebrates its 130th iteration in 2026. The race, scheduled on ...

With just weeks if not days before the 2023 election season is due to begin, the Boston City Council is now debating over three different political maps for citywide elections, with councilors already ...

Explore the history and significance of various locations on Boston's map in this informative video, uncovering their ...

The City of Boston wants to take steps now to mitigate the disastrous outcomes associated with predicted sea level rise in upcoming decades. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh laid out an ambitious vision for ...

TELL THE STORY OF NORTH AMERICA. AT THE LEVENTHAL MAP CENTER. INSIDE THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY. THAT STORY STRETCHES BACK CENTURIES. MAPS AREN’T JUST STATIC DEPICTIONS OF THE WAY THE WORLD IS, BUT ...

If Boston is a “city of neighborhoods,” their boundaries are neither fixed nor uncontested, let alone waterproof. Or so it ...

Greater Boston is the 10th most populous metropolitan area in the country. But according to geographer Garrett Dash Nelson, that statistic doesn’t actually mean much. “An averaged-out stat doesn’t ...

BASED SOLELY ON. [MUSIC] YOUR ADDRESS. WHAT IF THERE WERE A TIME MACHINE THAT COULD FIT IN YOUR POCKET AND SHOW YOU INSTANTLY WHAT A PLACE LOOKED LIKE 100 YEARS AGO? WELL THERE IS. IT’S CALLED ATLAS ...

Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of landscape architecture, once called Boston’s Emerald Necklace “the most important work of our profession now in hand.” His elegant system of parks tamed the Muddy ...