Daily Archives: January 12, 2022

Thursday, February 3, 7:00 pm – Boston in Transit, Online

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Please join The Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay on Thursday, February 3rd at 7 pm, as transit historian and local author Steven Beaucher discusses his recent book, Boston in Transit. He will be focusing on topics of interest to us in the Back Bay.  Boston in Transit tells the story of Boston’s development and growth through the lens of public transportation, starting with a simple ferry carrying English colonists through the arrival of steam trains and fleets of electric streetcars and buses, to the creation and evolution of the MBTA. Steven will lead us through highlights of public transit in Boston from 1630 through the present day. In addition to being an author and transit historian, Steven is also a map expert and the proprietor of WardMaps on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge.  This is a free presentation, but please register at specialevents@nabbonline.org by the cutoff date of Tuesday, February 1st. A Zoom link for the presentation will be emailed to you before the presentation on February 3rd.

Thursday, January 27, 10:30 am – Kate Orff: Mending the Landscape, Revised and Online!

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For Kate Orff, landscape architects must do more than “beautify”-they must help reset ecosystems to reconnect people to each other through ecological-social design. In her firm’s signature projects-from the $60 million Living Breakwaters barrier reef and shoreline restoration project off Staten Island, to Atlanta’s Chattahoochee RiverLands, to Resilient Boston Harbor Vision-she’s also spearheading an approach to climate resilience that says we should build with nature, not just in it.

Kate Orff, RLA, FASLA, is founding principal of SCAPE. Through her publications, activism, research, and complex, creative collaborations, she focuses on retooling the practice of landscape architecture relative to the uncertainty of climate change and creating spaces to foster social life. In 2017, Orff was the first landscape architect awarded the MacArthur “Genius Grant,” and in 2019 she received a National Design Award and was elevated to the ASLA Council of Fellows.

The New York Botanical Garden is sponsoring this January 27 lecture which was to have taken at the Ross Lecture Hall at the NYBG, 2900 Southern Boulevard in the Bronx. Due to Covid concerns, the event will now be online. For more information, email adulted@nybg.org or call 718-817-8720. $32 for NYBG members, $35 for nonmembers. You may enroll online HERE.