Back bay task force report
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- Publication date
- 1970
- Topics
- Warner, John, Architectural Districts, Boylston Street and Newbury Street, Boston (Mass.), Building Height and High Rise Buildings, Universities and colleges, Development Projects, Park Plaza Urban Renewal Project, Boston (Mass.), Parking, Parks, Prince School, Boston (Mass.), Racial Imbalance Law and Schools, Urban renewal
- Collection
- bplgovdocs; bostonpubliclibrary; americana; additional_collections
- Contributor
- Boston Public Library
- Language
- English
...transcript of a public hearing held at John Hancock Hall on 4 June 1970, chaired by BRA Director John Warner in which he names and thanks the members of the Back Bay Task Force and comments on various problems associated with urban renewal in the city, such as the flight of the middle class to the suburbs and the "fact" that the racial imbalance law does not work; he discusses the key issues brought up in the Task Force's report (retention of the Prince School, enlarging the Back Bay Architectural District to include Newbury Street and parts of Boylston Street, parking issues, restricting the expansion of educational institutions in the Back Bay, high rise building issues, the effect of the Park Plaza project on the area, pedestrian access between the Esplanade, the Charles River and the Back Bay, etc.); the meeting was was then turned over to Erwin D. Canham (President of the Back Bay Federation for Community Development) after which 19 witnesses addressed the issue of high rise buildings in the Back Bay; this item was in the BRA collection..
- Addeddate
- 2011-04-06 14:49:21
- Bookplateleaf
- 0003
- Call number
- 39999065842898
- Camera
- Canon 5D
- External-identifier
- urn:oclc:record:1041062605
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- 0
- Identifier
- backbaytaskforce00bost
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- ark:/13960/t7hq4sz9j
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- 0.0.21
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- OL24636883M
- Openlibrary_work
- OL15716218W
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- 1.0.3
- Pages
- 212
- Ppi
- 300
- Scandate
- 20110425192523
- Scanner
- scribe2.boston.archive.org
- Scanningcenter
- boston
- Full catalog record
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