The relationship of Harvard University medical school and affiliated institutions to the neighboring residential community: its problems and a solution
Contributors: John Sharratt Associates Inc
Publisher: RTH
Published: 1970
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1970
Subjects: Urban renewal; Harvard Medical School; Proposals; Housing; Health facilities; Community development; Mission Hill; Traffic; Economic conditions
Description: ...prepared to inform interested parties as to a critical situation in the Mission Hill area of Boston's Roxbury neighborhood, to define the problems and to make urban renewal proposals for their resolution; describes physical and social conditions of the area and gives a history of the problem caused by the acquisition of land by Harvard Medical School; discusses building maintenance, relocation and construction of new affordable housing, solutions to rent problems, community development, the needs of the area's institutions/medical facilities, land taking, etc.; appendices include a management proposal, correspondence with Henry Cutler, convent site area requirements, reports on school and health facilities and a report on a traffic plan; copies of this item were in the BRA collection...