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Boston's Back Bay Fens is more than an urban park. Even before its formal codification as a park, the Fens was an important urban landscape, serving critical infrastructure needs--a reciprocal to the 'civilized city, an urban wild, a productive landscape, a municipal utility in many forms and services, a reformist territory, an institutional foreground, and marginal social territory, that is, a place for activities that had no other place in the city. And this only begins to cover the Fens' infrastructural values.
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