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The 23 official neighborhoods in Boston are made up of approximately 84 sub-districts, squares and neighborhoods within each official neighborhood. The Boston Redevelopment Authority defines 16 planning districts (plus the Boston Harbor Islands) and 64 Neighborhood Statistical Areas (with four areas further subdivided).
The MAPC is a regional planning organization created by the Massachusetts legislature to oversee transportation infrastructure and economic development concerns in the Boston area. The MAPC includes 101 cities and towns that are grouped into eight subregions. These include most of the area within the region's outer circumferential highway, I-495.
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Mattapan (/ ˈ m æ t ə p æ n /) is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Mattapan is the original Native American name for the Dorchester area, [1] possibly meaning "a place to sit." [2] At the 2010 census, it had a population of 36,480, with the majority of its population immigrants.
Dorchester (/ ˈ d ɔːr tʃ ɛ s t ər /) is a neighborhood comprising more than 6 square miles (16 km 2) in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.Originally, Dorchester was a separate town, founded by Puritans who emigrated in 1630 from Dorchester, Dorset, England, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Towns have an open town meeting or representative town meeting form of government; cities, on the other hand, use a mayor-council or council-manager form. Based on the form of government, as of 2023, [1] there are 292 towns and 59 cities in Massachusetts. Over time, many towns have voted to become cities; 14 municipalities still refer to ...
From Dorchester to the North End and the Lowell Highlands to North Quincy, check out these Greater Boston neighborhoods that are fantastic for foodies. 10 of the best Greater Boston neighborhoods ...