When
we think about the changes made to expand Boston, the one way to look at
is the amount of land increased. The other way would be the amount of reduction
of water, which is the focus on my mapping. My first map shows how dramatically
the water surface has been reduced over time. Before the Boston expanded
the city by landfill, water was a visible and tangible flowing system embracing
the city. I called this stage "city in the water". Today, in our everyday
lives, water seems to lose its presence as a flow, and remained as elements
rather connected by invisible pipes. I named it as "water in the city".
Today, the flow and continuity of water exist in a very different way which
is invisible and functional. Back Bay Fens which used to be the tidal estuary
lost its symbolic meaning of fluctuating park as infrastructure.
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