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People before Highways - Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making (Paperback)
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People before Highways - Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making (Paperback)
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In 1948, inspired by changes to federal law, Massachusetts
government officials started hatching a plan to build multiple
highways circling and cutting through the heart of Boston, making
steady progress through the 1950s. But when officials began to hold
public hearings in 1960, as it became clear what this plan would
entail - including a disproportionate impact on poor communities of
color - the people pushed back. Activists, many with experience in
the civil rights and antiwar protests, began to organize. Linking
archival research, ethnographic fieldwork, and oral history,
Karilyn Crockett in People before Highways offers ground-level
analysis of the social, political, and environmental significance
of a local anti-highway protest and its lasting national
implications. The story of how an unlikely multiracial coalition of
urban and suburban residents, planners, and activists emerged to
stop an interstate highway is one full of suspenseful twists and
surprises, including for the actors themselves. And yet, the
victory and its aftermath are undeniable: federally funded mass
transit expansion, a linear central city park, and a highway-less
urban corridor that serves as a daily reminder of the power and
efficacy of citizen-led city making.
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