Author: Genna (Genevieve) Kane

Genna (Genevieve) Kane is a PhD Candidate in the American & New England Studies Program at Boston University. Her dissertation focuses on the environmental and architectural history of Boston’s waterfront since the nineteenth century. She studies the adaptations of the waterfront and its recent configurations as a climate resilient space. Her work has also been supported by the University of California Berkeley’s Environmental Design Archives and the Boston Public Library Leventhal Map & Education Center, among others.
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a tidal marsh, with trees and other green vegetation in the foreground and a distant airport is in the background.

Fluctuating and Fragmented: The History of Regulating the Tidal Salt Marsh near Wood Island in East Boston, Massachusetts

East Boston has the largest amount of made land in the City of Boston. It was originally comprised of five islands connected by acres of fluctuating tidal marshes and flats. The history of the Great Marsh exemplifies centuries of efforts to regulate and control the ambiguous space between land and sea.