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Description > Introduction
The Art of Exporation
Cities are large, complicated, and fascinating places, with both immense benefits and often overwhelming problems. Because of this, the City Ambassadors Volunteers Program is based on a couple of simple ideas:
To take care of a city, a neighborhood, or a community, you have to take time to get to know it as well as you can, in as many ways as possible.
The best ways to begin learning about a place is by exploring it in person. We'll do this on foot—by walking around with those who already know it well— and by hand—through hands-on workshops that expose us to the many important urban issues facing us in Boston.
Where Are We?
It takes time to learn how to read a place—to figure out what's good about it and what's bad, what needs to be saved and what needs to change. Through a series of workshops and tours, we will consider the question "Where are we?" from a variety of angles—tourism, urban design, architecture, urban ecology, environmental justice—and consider what it means to inhabit a particular place.
From Tourists to Tour Guides
Tourists come from all over the world to visit Boston, but they only see a very limited part of the city. In this program, we'll begin as tourists in our own town, but then we'll explore some of the out-of-the-way places that most people often know little about and will learn ways to see what's around us in new ways. By the end of the program, we'll become the tour guides and design final projects based on the places that are interesting and important to us. This will be our chance to pitch in where work needs to be done, to help preserve good urban places and help change the one's that need changing.
