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Boston is certainly a “college town,” but most maps show only the smallest version of the university campus — the quad, major buildings, maybe some dorms. (See Google’s map of MIT, for example.) Using municipal property databases, I made a campus map that shows land owned by the thirty-two colleges and universities in the inner Boston area, including land that is leased for non-university uses. Where possible, I also included land that is owned by school-controlled holding companies.

The result is a map that defines Boston as a college town not because there are students roaming the streets of the Fenway, but because huge areas of land aren’t subject to the same property-tax laws as land owned by for-profit organizations.