CityOfBoston Official An official website of the City of Boston

This is the website for the City of Boston’s new Planning Department, which launched on July 1. The staff and many responsibilities of the Boston Planning & Development Agency have moved to the Planning Department of the City of Boston including planning & zoning, urban design, development review, and real estate divisions. Please excuse any misalignment you may see on our site as we transition to the City. Learn more

How do we define diversity in the City? The Research Division has created a Diversity Index Map Tool to visualize multidimensional diversity throughout the city. In the tool, each geography is given a Diversity Index score to indicate its diversity across a certain dimension in comparison to other geographies.

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Mapping Diversity in Boston story map and Diversity Index Map Tool