People before highways : Boston activists, urban planners, and a new movement for city making /
Crockett, Karilyn,
People before highways : Boston activists, urban planners, and a new movement for city making / Karilyn Crockett. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (xvii, 239 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- People before highways : stopping highways, building a regional social movement -- Battling desires : (re)defining progress -- Groundwork : imagining a highwayless future -- Planning for tomorrow, not yesterday : "we were wrong" -- New territory : city-making, searching for control -- Making victory stick : new park, new dreams, new plans -- Epilogue.
In 1948, inspired by changes to federal law, Massachusetts government officials started hatching a plan to build multiple highways circling and cutting through the heart of Boston, making steady progress through the 1950s. But when officials began to hold public hearings in 1960, as it became clear what this plan would entail --
9781613765364
Highway planning--Citizen participation.--United States
City planning--Citizen participation.--United States
Social movements--United States.
Electronic Books.
HE355 / .P467 2018
People before highways : Boston activists, urban planners, and a new movement for city making / Karilyn Crockett. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (xvii, 239 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- People before highways : stopping highways, building a regional social movement -- Battling desires : (re)defining progress -- Groundwork : imagining a highwayless future -- Planning for tomorrow, not yesterday : "we were wrong" -- New territory : city-making, searching for control -- Making victory stick : new park, new dreams, new plans -- Epilogue.
In 1948, inspired by changes to federal law, Massachusetts government officials started hatching a plan to build multiple highways circling and cutting through the heart of Boston, making steady progress through the 1950s. But when officials began to hold public hearings in 1960, as it became clear what this plan would entail --
9781613765364
Highway planning--Citizen participation.--United States
City planning--Citizen participation.--United States
Social movements--United States.
Electronic Books.
HE355 / .P467 2018