Guide to Boston

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In the early 21st century, Boston eventually became an international, intellectual, and technological centre. The city also played a national role in the political science field. However, there was also a loss of importance of regional institutions in the financial sector and within the journalistic sector. Thus, the newspaper The Boston Globe was taken over by the New York Times and Boston-based insurance company FleetBoston Financial by Bank of America. Other problematic developments were gentrification processes, i.e. social displacement from residential areas. These have been associated with rising property and housing prices since the 1970s. In 2004, the Greater Boston had the highest national cost of living and the state of Massachusetts was the only US state in which the population was declining. Another trend of urban development since the beginning of the second half of the 20th century is the revitalization of fallow harbour areas. Projects that have been and are being driven in Boston in this area are the so-called Harborwalk, a continuous walkway along the so-called Waterfront in the North End, which also connects to the city centre through crossings, the revitalization of Kai Rows Wharf through a mixed use complex, the revitalization of the Fort Point Channel area and the construction of the Boston Exhibition and Convention Centre as well as the revitalization of the Charlestown Navy Yard (largest contiguous revitalization area in the USA)

time to solve the traffic problems, was initiated in the 1980s known as the Big Dig largest road construction and revitalization project in the United States. The completion of this project was due to its scope, however, only in 2007

medical sector, the economic dynamic developed positively for the first time in more than 30 years. At this time, the Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre and Brigham and Women's Hospital were among the leading medical institutions in medical innovations, among others. But even the general science sector, which has always been important to Boston's economic growth, has attracted more students during this time. However, the already increasing traffic since the 1920s, however, also led to new problems. These were not easy to solve in Boston, as the city centre was one of the oldest and densest in the United States. Exactly this circumstance saw the responsible local politicians in the late 1940s, however, as part of the problem. Thus, in the following years, a four-kilometre-long, six-lane city highway was laid as a raised elevated road across the heart of the city. However, this solved the traffic problems only for a short time and had also caused a fragmentation of the city centre. In order to mitigate the urban consequences of the road break and at the same