Park comparison


Once a prominent park in South End, Chester square park is a now one of the smallese parks in Boston. In the visulaization below, we can observe and compare the size of Chester Square Park with all of its neighbors. We can also drag and choose a desired sub-portion of any graph to visualize selected portions.

We have 3 sets of visualizations - Parks in the entire city, parks of size 10 acres and below, and parks in South end only.



Comparison of Chester Square Parks with comparable parks in neighborhood


Chester Square Park, which has been neglected for a long time, does actually have comparable number of trees when it comes to parks in the close viscinity of it.
It is evident from the given bar graph, that it compares fairly well with the Blackstone Square Park and Franklin Square Park in terms of number of trees.

The only park that outperforms Chester Square Park is Ramsay Park, which also differs greatly in terms of area.