Published April 30, 2021
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Boston may not look like a diverse city when it s a setting in shows and movies, but it actually has an incredible amount of diversity that defies the city s pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd stereotype.
In fact, data shows that Boston is a majority-minority city, with a declining white population and a booming, diverse immigrant population. This trend toward more diversity among its residents is shaping the city’s future, said Luc Schuster, director of Boston Foundation research center Boston Indicators. But equity remains a problem, with issues like housing and education gaps continuing to segregate Boston s population.
Fully functioning commuter rail could make all the difference
Updated April 18, 2021, 1 hour ago
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A visit to New York showed him how easy it could be
Until my retirement at the end of 2019, I was a twice-daily rider on the MBTAâs commuter rail for the better part of 35 years. I have ridden the trains in good times and bad, including the horrendous winter of 2014-15.
I agree with the writers of âA better Boston hiding in plain sightâ (Ideas, April 11) that the commuter rail lines are a huge boon to Greater Boston. It is a major selling point that our house is less than a 15-minute walk from a commuter rail stop. However, I also agree that enormous improvement is required to raise Bostonâs commuter rail system to the level of service in major metropolitan areas in Europe, Asia, and other cities in the United States.
Old ways of working and living will give way to a ‘polycentric’ region.
By Jeff Howe
Federico Gastaldi for the Boston Globe
There’s a saying in technology circles, commonly ascribed to the futurist Roy Amara, that we tend to overestimate the short-term impacts of a new technology but underestimate its long-term consequences. The telephone, commercial air travel, and even the Internet all failed to live up to their initial hype but ultimately transformed our culture and the economy.
Amara’s Law goes a long way toward explaining our current moment. Futurists have been pronouncing the coming ascendancy of “telecommuting,” as it was quaintly called in the age of “Web logs” and CD-ROMs, since the early 1980s. But just because we could didn’t mean we would, and for decades the number of remote workers remained marginal. Human behavior, not technology, ultimately determines the impact of any given innovation. In 2019, according to a study by the Pew Research Center, on
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