Boston: The Job Ahead... Describes a complicated system of inter-related elements which make up the Boston metropolitan area; chapters discuss topics such as city government, taxation, Boston's relationship to its suburbs, traffic and transit, freight transport, housing, schools, law and order, beauty in the city and business development; originally issued as a series of articles commissioned by the New England Merchants National Bank in 1962 and printed as a series of broadsides; a copy of this was in the BRA collection ... |
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A POINT OF VIEW | |
THE POWER TO GOVERN 11 | |
THE CITY AND THE SUBURBS 17 | |
Copyright | |
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