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Pedestrians or bikers
are not the only ones that are affected by the Fens; it does not take
entering the technical grounds of the park to understand something of
its presence. It becomes clear that the Back Bay Fens is more then a park,
it is a receptacle. It has physically received material (garbage as landfill),
it has housed plant animal habitats and people as well.
But it has also received much from the community at-large and its image
is tied to the institutions and neighborhood around it. This perception
includes a wide variety of influences from Kenmore Square with its flashing
Citgo sign to Fenway Park and the Boston Red Sox, from the Boston Museum
of Fine Arts and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to the many colleges
and universities that surround it.
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