High tech for downtown Boston?
Published: 1981
Language: eng
Number of pages: 53
Subjects: South Station (Boston, Mass.) -- Air Rights -- Proposals.; Airspace (Law) -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- South.; Boston Mayor -- Executive Orders.; High technology industries -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Proposals.; Unemployment -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Air Rights -- Proposals.; Chinatown (Boston, Mass.) -- Economic conditions.; Boston (Mass.) -- Economic policy -- Proposals.; South End (Boston, Mass.) -- Economic conditions.
Description: ...addresses the high unemployment rates in Chinatown and the South End and whether the BRA should encourage high technology industrial development in downtown Boston in an effort to alleviate the problem; gives Boston's recent economic history, location, theory and factor analysis, rationale for public interventions in private location decisions, implementation and reviews the South Station air rights development project case study; includes an Executive Order of the Mayor dated 11 Sept. 1979, concerning construction jobs for Boston residents, minorities and women; this item was in the BRA collection...