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 ... |
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 | |