People before highways : Boston activists, urban planners, and a new movement for city making /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crockett, Karilyn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]
Temas:
Highway planning > United States > Citizen participation.
City planning > United States > Citizen participation.
Social movements > United States.
Routes > Planification > États-Unis > Participation des citoyens.
Urbanisme participatif.
Mouvements sociaux > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Transportation.
TRANSPORTATION > Public Transportation.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
City planning > Citizen participation.
Highway planning > Citizen participation.
Social movements.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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