January: Exploring Boston’s Neighborhoods
Program Day
Date: January 20, 2021
Time: 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom (see reminder email or YW Boston Connect event page for meeting details)
Objectives
Our objectives are to
- Become oriented to the city of Boston
- Research the strengths and needs of neighborhoods
- Begin getting to know classmates
Agenda
- 9:00 Welcome & opening
- 9:30 Changing Faces of Boston – Past, Present, and Future
Speaker: Luc Schuster, Director, Boston Indicators - 10:30 Neighborhood Exploration
- 11:45 Neighborhood Report Back & Dialogue
- 12:45 Closing & survey
Pre-work
Complete the following readings before our program day:
- Boston’s Booming…But for Whom?
- For Blacks in Boston, A Power Outage
- Boston is the third most “intensely gentrified” city in the United States, study says
- Boston Usher’s in Historic Diversity with New City Council Leadership
- Data Gathering: Where in Boston do your colleagues live?
Additional recommended:
- How the City Plans to Beat Gentrification in Upham’s Corner
- Preview our presenter’s report, Changing Faces of Greater Boston