Introducing Archinect's Spotlight on Boston

For the month of March, Archinect is focusing its Spotlight on Boston, the largest city in Massachusetts and the northernmost node of America's Northeast megalopolis. 

he focus on Boston follows our recent Spotlight on Miami theme from the month of February. 

Boston, of course, has a relatively long history dating back to 1630s when it was first settled by Puritan colonizers from England. In the 390 years since, Boston has grown from a powerful shipping town and a major site of the American Revolution into an intellectual and biomedical powerhouse home to some of the country's most prestigious schools and universities, including Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which are located in the adjacent city of Cambridge. 

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the city worked to rectify some of the destruction caused by 1950s-era Urban Renewal ...