[inventory summary]
Published: 1953
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1953
Subjects: Land use -- Massachusetts -- Back Bay (Boston) -- Inventories.; Buildings -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Back Bay -- Inventories.; Buildings -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Central Business District -- Inventories.; Business and Businesses -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Back Bay -- Inventories.; Business and Businesses -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Central Business Districts -- Inventories.; Commercial buildings -- Massachusetts -- Boston.; Land use -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Inventories.; Manufacturing processes -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Inventories.; Office buildings -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Inventories.; Residential Space -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Inventories.; Retail trade -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Inventories.; Zoning -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Description: ...summary results of an inventory of Boston's Back Bay and downtown Central Business District undertaken as a step in the course of studies designed to serve, in part, in the eventual re-zoning of the city; includes data on class of construction (office space, consumer services, manufacturing, retail trade, wholesale/storage and vacant space), type of uses, class of construction, structural density and composition of retail areas; also includes data on residential, institutional and public utility use; assesses relative importance of various categories of businesses; a copy of this item was in the BRA collection...