5. Allegretto

Shepherds Song: Happy and Thankful Feeling after the Storm

1. The tradition of Bostonians as "performers" is still part of the behavior of today's Fenway community. The park is a place for many types of encounters, to walk and relax, to exercise and play team sports and the community holds some group activities on several dates of the year.

2. The physical presence of the institutions surrounding the neighborhood has become stable and at this moment, more than ever, keeps feeding the area with their cultural and educational prestige and spirit. Some of them, like the Museum of Fine Arts, have many services and activities open to the community.

3. In terms of the population, the tendency is to maintain mobility, as it has been in recent years, keeping students and foreign people in the neighborhood for relatively short periods of time (an average of one or two years.) The tendency in the years to come will be the same, due to the scarcity of housing and the rise in the cost of the rent.

4. In terms of community participation, the Fenway has been one of the more active in the city. I think that this position has brought many good things to the city. But as soon as the community starts to understands that living in a city is much better from living in a village, new up to scale projects will be possible in certain areas, for the better of the Fenway.

As a conclusion, I would like to point out that the main characteristic that I discovered, after studding this area, is one of stability with tension, a condition that is ideal in the process of a city; what I would call in a single word: "equilibrium". I think this situation is the best for making a city, because it permits the process and continuity of every day life, in a quiet and in peaceful situation, and at the same times the city is alive, permitting the changes that has to face along time.