Exhibition: "Breathing Room: Mapping Boston's Green Spaces"

When:
Saturday, Mar 24, 2018 10:00a -
Sunday, Sep 30, 2018 5:00p

Where:
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Art

Event website:
https://collections.leventhalmap.org/exhibits

Boston boasts some of the nation’s most recognizable and cherished green spaces, from Boston Common, to the Emerald Necklace, to hundreds of neighborhood parks, playgrounds, tot lots, community gardens, playing fields, cemeteries, and urban wilds. In this exhibition, you will learn how the country’s oldest public park grew from a grazing pasture to an iconic recreational and social center, how 19th-century reformers came to view parks as environmental remedies for ill health, how innovative landscape architects fashioned green oases in the midst of a booming metropolis, and what the future holds for Boston’s open spaces. As you explore three centuries of open space in Boston, perhaps you will feel inspired to go outside and discover the green spaces in your own backyard.

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