2022 Class of Fellows, Deneen Crosby, Boston Chapter

Crosby Schlessinger Smallridge, Boston, Massachusetts
by Staff

Boston Chapter Category: Works

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Boston Chapter Category: Works

Deneen Crosby's work has quietly transformed metropolitan Boston's public realm over the past thirty years, resulting in an urbanity that is more beautiful, sustainable, connected, and environmentally and socially resilient. Her attention to the design quality and sustainability of public spaces and her unique ability to maximize the potential of landscapes has resulted in the creation of joyful public spaces. Her work varies greatly in project scale, from small neighborhood parks and playgrounds to significant urban open spaces integral to some of the most important infrastructure projects in the country, including Boston's "Big Dig." Among her more than 100 built projects are: Farnham Connolly State Park, which successfully transformed a seriously contaminated and neglected part of the Neponset River Reservation into a regional destination showcasing the full range of wetland plant communities; the Neponset River Greenway, which changed an industrial river corridor into a publicly accessible greenway linking the southernmost Boston neighborhoods-all with environmental justice communities-to Boston Harbor; and on the northernmost section of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, the 2.7-acre North End Parks that were built over the depressed interstate highway.