Back bay development plan, 1967.
Contributors: Back Bay Planning and Development Corporation.; Boston Redevelopment Authority.
Published: 1967
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Growth Policy -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Back Bay.; Landscape gardening -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Back Bay.; Urban renewal -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Back Bay.; Back Bay (Boston, Mass.)
Description: ...a proposed ten year development/growth policy urban renewal plan for Boston's Back Bay neighborhood; provides history leading to the plan and describes current problems; makes recomemdnations for the following: Copley Square, Boylston Street, Stuart and St. James area, Beacon Street-Commonwealth Avenue area, Prudential Center, Christian Science Church development, Park Square area and St. Botolph Street neighborhood; discusses: costs, public enterprise, public controls (architectural controls, signs, beautification, code enforcement and zoning), community/citizen participation, general conditions and trends, institutional conditions and trends, commercial areas, office areas, a development plan for the Back Bay, transportation and circulation, residential areas, housing, private and public investment, etc.; copies of this item were in the BRA collection...