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05/14/2008, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Learning Units: 2.00-Walking Tour
Training Units: 0.50-Training Area 17 (Landscape Architecture)
The newly opened Rose Kennedy Greenway parks, created above the new 1.5-mile Tip O'Neill Tunnel, represents an unparalleled gesture of urban design, architecture, landscape design, engineering, and community process in a major American city. The Greenway parks provide a unique opportunity to celebrate the significance of a nearly 20-year design process involving state and city agencies, an active advisory task force, and neighborhood groups.
We will explore the design development process that included the creation of three distinct parks located along the Greenway in the North End, near the Harbor Towers, and in Chinatown. The tour will include background on the Crossroads Initiative, developed by city planner Ken Greenberg for the City of Boston, a major effort to reknit the neighborhoods through revitalized streetscape and activation of cross-streets and boulevards.
Come and walk the Greenway from South Station to the Zakim Bridge with stops along the way, including the restored Bulfinch Triangle, the North End, the Wharf District, and Chinatown. We will also visit three ramp parcels on which public/private partnerships will guide the creation of three new cultural institutions for Boston. Tours will be led by various architects, planners, business leaders, and communtiy residents, including Robert Brown, AIA, of CBT Architects; Rob Tuchman, Esq., chairman of the Mayor's Artery Completion Task Force; and architectural photographer, Peter Vanderwarker.
At the end of the tour, you may choose to linger on your own at any of the marvelous sites that we will pass, including Quincy Market, Faneuil Hall, North Station, the New England Aquarium, Rowe's Wharf, and Chinatown, or hop the shuttle back to the convention center.
Learning Objectives:
- Analyze the complexities of the largest public works project in U.S. history that spanned the terms of five governors and three mayors while calling upon the talents of archtitects, engineers, landscape designers, and city planners
- Explore how landscape architects worked with three distinct communities in creating parks in the North End, near Harbor Towers, and in Chinatown
- Evaluate the demands of reknitting the urban fabric of Boston that was torn apart in the 1950s to build an elevated highway
TP19a Wednesday, 10 a.m.-noon, $60
Sponsored by Cubellis
Core Discipline: Design
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