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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Copley Connect

City of Boston tests converting Back Bay street into pedestrian plaza

Cassandra Dumay June 23, 2022

  The portion of Dartmouth Street between the Boston Public Central Library and Copley Square was closed to cars from June 7 to June 17 as part of Copley Connect — a pilot program...

The Initiative on Cities co-sponsors "Professor Perspectives: Gentrification in Boston" Oct. 25 at 100 Bay State Road. PHOTO BY VIVIAN MYRON/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Professors, students gather to discuss gentrification in Boston

Sydney Wertheim October 31, 2017

In 1964, Ruth Glass, a British sociologist, coined the term "gentrification," describing it as the displacement of the “social character of a district” because the inner working class neighborhoods...

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