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The design was inspired by two areas
of content discovered in the preliminary research and mapping investigations:
Boston's topographical evolution and the Great Bay's cultural evolution.
Topography: Although Boston's
primarily hilly character results from its glaciated topography, the area
immediately surrounding the Back Bay Fens (with the exception of the banks
to either side of the Muddy River) typifies a flat landscape due to it's
man-made history as a landscape of fill. The mapping illustrates the Back
Bay area in green with very little grade change juxtaposed with its surrounding
elevated landscape in white. The adjacent map outlines Boston's glacial
scars, it's kettles, kames, and drumlins.
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