b'MUDD 24 URBAN NETWORKS|URBAN GATEWAYSBeacon YardsBostonBeacon Yards Boston has changed dramatically in the 50 yearsBetween 2010 and 2014, Boston added almost since its last citywide plan of 1965. In that year,as many residents in four years as the city had industrial job loss had shaken the economic bedrockin the prior twenty. Today, Bostons workers are of the city, a race-relations crisis was mounting and30 percent more productive than the average Boston was in the middle of a precipitous declineand the citys renowned educational institutions that would shrink the citys population by more thanmake Boston a magnet for young people. Thisa third. After Bostons population reached a lowhas brought with it remarkable opportunities, 99 point in 1980, the city leveraged its hosting of world- though growth has also intensified some class hospitals and universities to instigate a rebirthexisting challenges, including affordability and of the region as a knowledge-based economy.inequality.While other mid-sized east coast cities have struggled to rebound fromindustrial decline, Boston has established itself as a peer to otherknowledge economy, high growth cities such as San Francisco, Location Seattle, and Washington D.C. MUDD 24 - Urban Gateways | Urban Networks - Boston Boston 8pt.indd 6 26/11/2019 5:05:13 PM'