Porter Square is a neighborhood in Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts in the USA, located around the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Somerville Avenue, between Harvard and Davis Squares. The Porter Square station serves both the MBTA Red Line and the Commuter Rail Fitchburg Line.
In 2004-06 the principal intersection, including the area adjacent to the shopping center, underwent extensive construction to both improve access for vehicles, pedestrians, bicyclists, and mass transit users, and improve drainage and storm water conditions. The artist Toshihiro Katayama of Harvard University, in conjunction with the landscape architect Cynthia Smith, designed a new visual look for the new circulation design including contrasting light and dark concrete paving, stone walls and boulders.
Read more about Porter Square: History, Lesley University/Art Institute of Boston, Chronic Homelessness
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