TEDxBoston Adventures

Urban Renewal In Codman Square Can a previously written-off neighborhood become the “best urban community in America”?

Take a tour of Dorchester (the largest and most diverse section of Boston) with the CEO and co-founder of one of the area’s most respected non-profit organizations, The Codman Square Health Center. Codman Square, the center of Dorchester, is a neighborhood that burned and was written off until the mid-90s, but has experienced resurgence both physically and socially. You will tour tough, striving areas and gracious Victorian sections, which are located just streets apart from each other. You also will see a Health Center that views the major disease it is treating as “poverty,” and uses unorthodox methods to connect health care to “treatments” that can help cure the disease, from group visits that stress early childhood education to the only school located within a health center in America.