Editing Somerville, Massachusetts (section)

===Squares and neighborhoods===
[[File:Seven Hills Park April 2025.jpg|thumb|right|Seven Hills Park at Davis Square. The towers in the park each represent one of the city's original hills.]]
Somerville's commercial property is not concentrated in a recognized downtown [[central business district]] but instead is spread over many different nodes or corridors of business activity. The difference in character ranges from the vibrant nightlife, live music and theaters of [[Davis Square]] to the large scale retail and highway access of [[Assembly Square]]. This spatial allocation is directly related to the early influence of rail and streetcar systems which caused economic activity to occur at stops. The other key factor in the creation of commercial squares is the area's topography. The numerous hills making up Somerville's landscape determined where road networks would allow neighborhood commercial development.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/LandUseTrendsReportFinalMay2011.pdf |title= Trends in Somerville: Land Use Technical Report |date= May 2011 |website= somervillema.gov |publisher= City of Somerville Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development |access-date= 11 December 2013 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131213095146/http://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/LandUseTrendsReportFinalMay2011.pdf |archive-date= December 13, 2013 }}</ref>

Somerville has a number of squares that are centers for business and entertainment, as well as a number of other neighborhoods:<ref>[http://archive.somervillema.gov/departments/ospcd/squares-and-neighborhoods Somerville Squares and Neighborhoods (with map)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615112456/http://archive.somervillema.gov/departments/ospcd/squares-and-neighborhoods |date=June 15, 2018 }}. Retrieved July 18, 2016.</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Annual Report of the City of Somerville, 1910|publisher=City of Somerville|year=1910|location=Somerville, Massachusetts|page=348|chapter=List of Squares in the City|url=https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/614928|access-date=May 26, 2021|archive-date=May 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526133921/https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/614928|url-status=live}}</ref>
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* [[Assembly Square]]
* [[Ball Square]]
* [[Brickbottom (Somerville, Massachusetts)|Brickbottom]] (north of [[Massachusetts Route 28|McGrath Highway]], south of Inner Belt District)
* Clarendon Hill (near Broadway and Arlington border)<ref name="trash" />
* [[Davis Square]] (the Post Office here is called West Somerville, but Google Maps shows West Somerville as a narrow strip near Alewife Brook Parkway and Mystic Valley Parkway, northwest of Teele Square)
* Duck Village (north of Beacon Street, just west of Union Square)<ref name="trash">{{Cite web|url=https://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/trash-and-recycling-collection-map.pdf|title=Trash and Recycling Collection map|accessdate=August 4, 2022|archive-date=January 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220101082216/https://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/trash-and-recycling-collection-map.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unionsquareneighbors.com/duck-village.html|title=Duck Village|date=October 24, 2014|publisher=Union Square Neighbors|access-date=April 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180403112459/http://www.unionsquareneighbors.com/duck-village.html|archive-date=2018-04-03|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[East Somerville]] (East of McGrath Highway, between Washington and Broadway Streets)
* [[Gilman Square]] (at the junction of Medford Street, Pearl Street, and Marshall Street)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sammarco|first=Anthony Mitchell|title=Somerville (Images of America: Massachusetts)|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=2003|isbn=0738512907|page=45}}</ref><ref>Compare Google Maps streetview to [http://epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genImage.php?locId=3133&imgId=ma_somerville02.jpg&cardNum= historic postcard] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140802064355/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genImage.php?locId=3133&imgId=ma_somerville02.jpg&cardNum= |date=2014-08-02 }}.</ref>
* [[Inner Belt District]]
* [[Magoun Square]]
* Nunnery Grounds (Mount Benedict)
* [[Powder House Square]]
* [[Union Square (Somerville)|Prospect Hill]] (part of Union Square)
* [[Spring Hill, Somerville, Massachusetts|Spring Hill]]
* The Aves, occasionally known as "The States", or "The Nunnery Grounds" (streets named after U.S. states, between Broadway in East Somerville and I-93 near Assembly Square)<ref name="trash" />
* [[Teele Square]]
* [[Ten Hills, Somerville, Massachusetts|Ten Hills]]
* [[Tufts University|Tufts]]
* [[Union Square (Somerville)|Union Square]]
* Wilson Square (Elm Street and Somerville Avenue), known as Oak Square before 1920<ref>{{Cite book|title=Annual Report of the City of Somerville, 1920|publisher=City of Somerville|year=1920|location=Somerville, Massachusetts|page=278|url=https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/614938|hdl=2452/614938|access-date=May 26, 2021|archive-date=November 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130183037/https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/614938|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Winter Hill, Somerville, Massachusetts|Winter Hill]]
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