Institutional Networks

[2013]

Boston’s Longwood Medical and Academic Area (LMA) includes 13 schools, 10 hospitals and research institutions, and 10 cultural organizations. Each institution operates its own campus and parking, generating a fragmented neighborhood of superblocks difficult to navigate for all modes of transit. Worse, this failure of urban design betrays the diverse, cross-disciplinary nature of the LMA and its member institutions.

This visualization series elucidates these collaborations across nationally recognized academic, medical, and cultural institutions. The LMA should aspire to a cohesive urban campus that reflects the idea exchange, learning, and service-oriented collaboration such proximity catalyzes.

Academic - Orange
Cultural - Light Blue
Medical - Navy

Healthy Kids, Healthy Future partnership, an obesity prevention program encouraging active play outside

MFA Artful Healing, which offers art-making activities for children and their families in Boston-area hospitals

Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) affiliations

Medical Academic and Scientific Community Organization (MASCO) members

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Institutional Networks