The Boston Home Team Blog » olmsted http://www.thebostonhometeam.com/blog Jamaica Plain Real Estate Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:58:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 National Trails Day at Franklin Park http://www.thebostonhometeam.com/blog/national-trails-day-at-franklin-park http://www.thebostonhometeam.com/blog/national-trails-day-at-franklin-park#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:37:13 +0000 William Brokhof http://www.thebostonhometeam.com/blog/?p=397 Hey kids - grab your boots and hoof it out on Saturday June 6th from 10a-noon and help restore trails and remove invasive species.
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MA Franklin Park Boston 1904

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Hey kids – grab your boots and hoof it out on Saturday June 6th from 10a-noon and help restore trails and remove invasive species. Tools and refreshments will be provided by The Franklin Park Coalition. All ages and abilities are welcome. Come out and give moral support if that’s all you’ve got! Meet up at the Valley Gates Parking Lot mid-way along the main road. Call 617-442-4141 for more information.

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]]> http://www.thebostonhometeam.com/blog/national-trails-day-at-franklin-park/feed 0 How the city hurts your brain – and why Jamaica Plain is good for you. http://www.thebostonhometeam.com/blog/jamaica-plain-is-good-for-you http://www.thebostonhometeam.com/blog/jamaica-plain-is-good-for-you#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:15:11 +0000 William Brokhof http://www.thebostonhometeam.com/blog/how-the-city-hurts-your-brain-and-why-jamaica-plain-is-good-for-you I wouldn't live anywhere else in the city. I'm not saying you shouldn't - I'm just saying that coming from the country (Ozark Mountains) it would be very hard for me to live anywhere else. I enjoy the rough, undeveloped woodlands that JP is surrounded by.
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In a recent article by Jonah Lehrer on Boston.com it is explained that the city is bad for us. Duh. But it is interesting to hear just exactly why. Some of the research he cites is really interesting. The natural settings provided by Jamaica Plain were exactly why I have stayed here for 16 years.

Olmsted designed Central Park in NYC and many other public commons

Olmsted designed Central Park in NYC and many other public commons

I wouldn’t live anywhere else in the city. I’m not saying you shouldn’t – I’m just saying that coming from the country (Ozark Mountains) it would be very hard for me to live anywhere else. I enjoy the rough, undeveloped woodlands that JP is surrounded by. Check out some of the green space links on the right to learn more about them. The Emerald Necklace is a green corridor designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (Central Park) that surrounds Jamaica Plain and includes Franklin Park and Arnold Arboretum. Check them out, and then buy real estate in Jamaica Plain. Here are some excerpts from the story on Boston.com.

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And yet, city life isn’t easy. The same London cafes that stimulated Ben Franklin also helped spread cholera; Picasso eventually bought an estate in quiet Provence. While the modern city might be a haven for playwrights, poets, and physicists, it’s also a deeply unnatural and overwhelming place.
Natural settings, in contrast, don’t require the same amount of cognitive effort. This idea is known as attention restoration theory, or ART, and it was first developed by Stephen Kaplan, a psychologist at the University of Michigan. While it’s long been known that human attention is a scarce resource — focusing in the morning makes it harder to focus in the afternoon — Kaplan hypothesized that immersion in nature might have a restorative effect.
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