The site of what is now the Metropolitan apartment complex on Oak Street in Boston has been at the heart of community life in the city’s Chinatown neighborhood for nearly a century. A hub for the city’s immigrants, it was a seat of activism in the 1950s and ’60s against large-scale urban renewal projects that wiped out sections of many immigrant neighborhoods across the city. The site of what is now the Metropolitan apartment complex on Oak Street in Boston has been at the heart of community life in the city’s Chinatown neighborhood for nearly a century. A hub for the city’s immigrants, it was a seat of activism in the 1950s and ’60s against large-scale urban renewal projects that wiped out sections of many immigrant neighborhoods across the city. Economics & Business Education Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories
In this architecture class, students tackle gentrification in Boston’s Chinatown
