Boston: The Job Ahead

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Harvard University Press, 1966 - History - 121 pages
... 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 ...

Contents

A POINT OF VIEW
1
THE POWER TO GOVERN
11
THE CITY AND THE SUBURBS
17
THE TAX TANGLE
25
TRAFFIC AND TRANSIT
32
FREIGHT
43
TIME AGAIN FOR ENTERPRISE
53
WHICH WAY DOWNTOWN?
60
HOUSING
68
SCHOOLS
75
YOUTH
84
LAW AND ORDER
94
BEAUTY IN THE CITY 102
INDEX 119

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