Boston: Urban Planning Private Walking Tour
ID: GYG38171-47628
Category:
Country: United States
Duration:
01:30 hours
Description
Discover Boston's transformation on an urban walking tour. Explore the city’s history, architecture, and infrastructure, and see how innovation shaped Boston’s past and future.
Explore Boston on this unique walking tour that uncovers the city’s long history of transformation, innovation, and adaptation. Perfect for architecture enthusiasts, history buffs, and curious urban explorers, this experience reveals how Boston’s ever-changing cityscape tells the story of a city built on reinvention.
As we follow some of Boston’s oldest streets and hidden alleys, you’ll learn how the city has continually reshaped its geography—flattening hills, filling in coves, and rerouting rivers—to support its growth. We’ll examine the layers of infrastructure, from early colonial roads to modern transportation networks, that define how Bostonians move through and interact with their environment.
Discover the urban design decisions, civil engineering feats, and planning challenges that have defined Boston’s development over the centuries. You’ll also explore how past choices inform the city’s response to contemporary issues like climate change, rising sea levels, and urban density.
You will never look at a man hole cover the same way again!
Highlights
- Find hidden clues in the built environment that tell Boston’s story
- See the evolution of Boston’s neighborhoods through landmaking and design
- Discover how infrastructure has shaped the city - from horse paths to subways
- Learn how Boston transformed through economic, environmental, and social change
- Learn about the people and events that ignited a nation
Guiding languages
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Tours are presented rain or shine.
Please arrive 10 minutes prior to departure to allow time to connect with your guide
Meet your guide at One Boston Place on the corner of Washington & Court Streets, across Washington Street from the Old State House.
Finding Your Guide: All guides carry an 8×11 sign that says “Boston By Foot Walking Tours.”
Nearest Accessible MBTA Station: State (Blue & Orange Lines)
When should I book?
To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.
Cancellations
This excursion you can cancel with no cost up to 24 hours before the start of the trip. If you cancel it after 24 hours or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity. Being late on pick-up or departure will be considered as not showing up.
