In this architecture class, students tackle gentrification in Boston’s Chinatown

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.

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