Main entry:

Meyerson, Martin, author.

Title & Author:

Boston : the job ahead / Martin Meyerson and Edward C. Banfield.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1966.

Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 121 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
"A publication of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Univerisity."
Includes index.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: A Point of View -- 1. The Power to Govern -- 2. The City and the Suburbs -- 3. The Tax Tangle -- 4. Traffic and Transit -- 5. Freight -- 6. Time Again for Enterprise -- 7. Which Way Downtown? -- 8. Housing -- 9. Schools -- 10. Youth -- 11. Law and Order -- 12. Beauty in the City -- Index.
In English.

Summary:

... 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 ...

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

9780674421226
0674421221

Subject:

City planning Massachusetts Boston.
Urbanisme Massachusetts Boston.
City planning.
Massachusetts Boston.

Added entries:

Banfield, Edward C., author.
Banfield, Edward C.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 141960
Call No.: W12834; ID:87-B17955
Status: Available