People before highways : Boston activists, urban planners, and a new movement for city making / Karilyn Crockett.
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TextPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 239 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
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- 9781613765364
- HE355 .P467 2018
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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 --
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