The One Minute Geographer: Massachusetts (5): Boston, New Suburbs, Creative Class and Gentrification

With the prior posts as background, let’s look at a couple of examples of demography in the Boston metro area in an urban setting and in a suburban one. Then, we’ll take a quick look at gentrification and ‘the creative class.’ The City of Boston, housing the state Capitol and most of the high-rise downtown, is the core of the metropolis. Its population of 675,000 in 2020 is remarkable for having grown more than 9% from 2010 when so many northern and Midwestern core cities have been stable or have even declined. Boston has more than a dozen neighborhoods, some of which were ‘dissolved’ cities and towns incorporated into Boston City over time, each with distinctive characteristics. For example, Beacon Hill is an elite area of expensive old homes with a high income, mostly white population. Roxbury is a community with a large proportion of African American population while South Boston (‘Southie’) has traditionally been an Irish American community. <a href="https://jimwfonseca.medium.com/the-one-minute-geographer-massachusetts-5-boston-new-suburbs-creative-class-and-36f3eeeb5588">Click Here</a>