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ANCHORAGE
COMPLETE STREETS
ANCHORLESS
COMPLETE STREETS
INTERSTITIAL CONNECTION
EXTENSION
INNOVATION DISTRICT
DISADVANTAGED AREAS
EMERALD NECKLACE
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TACTICS
IMPROVEMENT AREAS
0
1.5
3
4.5
6 miles
The Emerald Necklace chain can be thought of as a spatial anchor as the city’s green connector corridor. These vessels of green space maintain a source of character and create an identity to Boston’s urban landscape both in plan and experience. Between these connectors throughout the Necklace and complete street systems, they can provide opportunities to the exurbs and disadvantages areas to adapt the character of vision as well as provide safer means of travel. The interconnectivity between the districts of Boston is essentially threaded with this spatial anchor. The transitional areas within this can provide for opportunities to promote a more sustainable growth within the districts themselves and Boston as a whole.
INNOVATION DISTRICT
COMPLETE STREETS
OPEN SPACES
URBAN AMENITIES
INNOVATION DISTRICT
0
1.5
3
4.5
6 miles
Urban acupuncture will increasingly become a standard for capitalizing under-utilized spaces for transit corridors in proximity to heavily populated areas. Tactical urbanism can become a form of this acupuncture study in order to increase the amount of people served by open spaces in dense environments. The amount of urban amenities near housing can increase the socio-economic footprint of the city by giving visibility and activity to areas that are in need of it. Places of interest for these acupuncture pieces can be located where systems terminate so that there can be continuity between networks.