Report on a Thoroughfare Plan for Boston
Report on a Thoroughfare Plan for Boston

Author: Boston (Mass.). City Planning Board

Publisher:

Published: 1930

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13:

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... A comprehensive plan of main traffic arteries in Boston that would take care of present and future needs for a 25 year or more period; proposes ten major projects: 1) East Boston tunnel or bridge, 2) Central Artery, 3) Blue Hills radial, 4) North Shore radial, 5) Roxbury Crosstown, 6) Charles River Parkway, 7) North Beacon Street, Brighton, 8) Canterbury and Clarendon Hills Parkway, 9) Neponset River Parkway, and 10) elevated road over the Boston and Albany railroad tracts; includes traffic volume data with estimates for 1965, aerial photos, a history of Boston's street system, proposals for neighborhood streets, etc.; a copy of this item was in the BRA collection ...

East Boston, a Survey and a Comprehensive Plan. Report of the City Planning Board, Boston, Mass
East Boston, a Survey and a Comprehensive Plan. Report of the City Planning Board, Boston, Mass

Author: Boston (Mass ) City Planning Board

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781019222096

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Inventing the Charles River
Inventing the Charles River

Author: Karl Haglund

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2002-11-22

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 0262083078

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An illustrated account of the creation of the Charles River Basin, focusing on the precarious balance between transportation planning and the stewardship of the public realm. The Charles River Basin, extending nine miles upstream from the harbor, has been called Boston's "Central Park." Yet few realize that this apparently natural landscape is a totally fabricated public space. Two hundred years ago the Charles was a tidal river, edged by hundreds of acres of salt marshes and mudflats. Inventing the Charles River describes how, before the creation of the basin could begin, the river first had to be imagined as a single public space. The new esplanades along the river changed the way Bostonians perceived their city; and the basin, with its expansive views of Boston and Cambridge, became an iconic image of the metropolis. The book focuses on the precarious balance between transportation planning and stewardship of the public realm. Long before the esplanades were realized, great swaths of the river were given over to industrial enterprises and transportation—millponds, bridges, landfills, and a complex network of road and railway bridges. In 1929, Boston's first major highway controversy erupted when a four-lane road was proposed as part of a new esplanade. At twenty-year intervals, three riverfront road disputes followed, successively more complex and disputatious, culminating in the lawsuits over "Scheme Z," the Big Dig's plan for eighteen lanes of highway ramps and bridges over the river. More than four hundred photographs, maps, and drawings illustrate past and future visions for the Charles and document the river's place in Boston's history.

East Boston
East Boston

Author: Boston (Mass ) City Planning Board

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2018-02-21

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9781378376607

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Zoning for Boston, a Survey and a Comprehensive Plan
Zoning for Boston, a Survey and a Comprehensive Plan

Author: Boston City Planning Board

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-18

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 9780364230343

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Excerpt from Zoning for Boston, a Survey and a Comprehensive Plan: Report of the City Planning Board, Boston, Mass.; Law Enacted by Massachusetts Legislature, Chapter 488, Acts of 1924, in Effect June 5, 1924 On the eve of celebrating, in 1930, the tercentenary of the founding of Boston, a Zoning Plan has been made for directing a more orderly. Growth of the city during the centuries to come than has prevailed in the past three hundred years. With equal rights for all and special privileges for none, the Plan will protect every district from detrimental property uses, preserv ing home neighborhoods, encouraging the most valuable development of business and promoting sound industrial expansion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.