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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Crockett, Karilyn (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Social movements.
Highway planning > Citizen participation.
City planning > Citizen participation.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
TRANSPORTATION > Public Transportation.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Transportation.
Mouvements sociaux > États-Unis.
Urbanisme participatif.
Routes > Planification > États-Unis > Participation des citoyens.
Social movements > United States.
City planning > United States > Citizen participation.
Highway planning > United States > Citizen participation.
United States.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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