Heart of the City Project, Database of the Greenspaces of the Arnold Arboretum, Boston Nature Center, Forest Hills Cemetery, Franklin Park, and Southwest Corridor Park, and the Neighborhoods of Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, Roslindale and Roxbury. The searchable database covers commerce, community life, environmental, health and transportation issues with source material, pictures, and other connections.

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Issues

A
Abandoned buildings
Abandoned cars
Access to parks and open spaces
Air quality
Arts
Asthma

B
Biking and bicycle paths
Bodies of dead animals
Brownfields redevelopment
Bus transportation/ transit justice

C
Celebrations
Cemetery land
Changing demographics
Churches, mosques, temples and religious life
Civic engagement/ voting
Community centers
Community gardens
Commuter rails
Composting
Condominium conversion
Connections between greenspaces
Crime
Crime in commercial centers
Crime in parks and open spaces

D
Dilapidated buildings
Drinking water

E
Economic development
Edges of open spaces
Education (public schools)
Education (informal and adult)
Enterprise zone/ "Boston Connects"
Environmental justice
Erosion
Exercise, weight and obesity

F
Faces of public buildings
Flooding/ rain/ water

G
Gateways to major open spaces
Government agencies
Green Triangle
Growing youth population

H
Health care/ community health centers
Health disparities
Hemlock woolly adelgid
Historic preservation and neighborhood history
Homeless people
Housing
Housing tenure/ rental housing and home ownership

I
Illegal dumping
Immigrants
Importance of parks and open spaces
Industry/ "Backstreets"
Invasive species

K

L
Landmarks
Lead
Libraries

M
Mainstreet districts
Maps

N
Neighborhood boundaries
News and activism
Noise pollution (including airplane traffic)

O

P
Park maintenance/ funding of parks and open spaces
Parking
Parks and vehicles
Pedestrian safety/ pedestrian connections
Perceptions of public safety
Pesticides and herbicides
Playgrounds
Poverty
Private schools
Proposed development/ redevelopment
Public libraries
Public squares

Q

R
Race, ethnicity, and diversity
Regional tourism

S
Schools/ public education
Schoolyards
Section 8 subsidized housing/ expiring use
Senior citizens
Sewers
Signage
Smart growth/ Sustainable development
Sustainable design/ Green buildings/ Green design

T
Traffic
Transit access to parks and open spaces
Transit-oriented development
Trees

U
Unpaved roads
Urban ecology/ urban environment
Urban wilds

W
Water runoff
Watersheds
West Nile Virus
Wetlands
Wildlife

X

Y
Youth Centers at Boston Housing Authority
Youth crime
Youth recreation

Z