redevelopment program for lower Roxbury.
Published: 1959
Language: eng
Number of pages: 37
Subjects: Housing -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Roxbury -- Proposals.; Political participation -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Roxbury -- Proposals.; Community development -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Roxbury -- Proposals.; Human services -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Roxbury -- Proposals.; Urban renewal -- Massachusetts -- Roxbury (Boston) -- Proposals.; Social service -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Roxbury -- Proposals.; City planning -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Roxbury -- Proposals.; Urban renewal -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Roxbury -- Proposals.; Boston (Mass.) -- Economic policy -- Roxbury -- Proposals.
Description: ...a theoretical urban renewal proposal addressing the problem of providing affordable housing and needed social/human services in the Lower Roxbury neighborhood of Boston; sets forth nine objectives; discusses problems of the area and makes recommendations concerning housing, traffic circulation, industrial, commercial and institutional activity, municipal and community facilities (schools, public open space, parks, police, fire department, libraries, civic center and settlement houses); also addresses education and recreation programs, citizen/community participation and urban design; a copy of this community/economic development plan was in the BRA collection...