Building A New Boston
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Building A New Boston
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Author : Thomas H. O'Connor
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 1995-08-10
Building A New Boston written by Thomas H. O'Connor and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-08-10 with History categories.
"Here is one of the great stories in American urban history told by a great historian. In 1949, Boston was 'a hopeless backwater' . . . by 1970, a 'New Boston' had been created . . . Thomas O'Connor, the dean of Boston historians, brings to this tale of transformation rich learning, intimate familiarity with his subject, and a lucid sometimes witty pen." -- Jack Beatty, Senior Editor, Atlantic Monthly
Heroic
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Author : Mark Pasnik
language : en
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC
Release Date : 2015-10-27
Heroic written by Mark Pasnik and has been published by The Monacelli Press, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-27 with Architecture categories.
Often problematically labeled as “Brutalist” architecture, the concrete buildings that transformed Boston during 1960s and 1970s were conceived with progressive-minded intentions by some of the world’s most influential designers, including Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, I. M. Pei, Henry Cobb, Araldo Cossutta, Gerhard Kallmann and Michael McKinnell, Paul Rudolph, Josep Lluís Sert, and The Architects Collaborative. As a worldwide phenomenon, building with concrete represents one of the major architectural movements of the postwar years, but in Boston it was deployed in more numerous and diverse civic, cultural, and academic projects than in any other major U.S. city. After decades of stagnation and corrupt leadership, public investment in Boston in the 1960s catalyzed enormous growth, resulting in a generation of bold buildings that shared a vocabulary of concrete modernism. The period from the 1960 arrival of Edward J. Logue as the powerful and often controversial director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority to the reopening of Quincy Market in 1976 saw Boston as an urban laboratory for the exploration of concrete’s structural and sculptural qualities. What emerged was a vision for the city’s widespread revitalization often referred to as the “New Boston.” Today, when concrete buildings across the nation are in danger of insensitive renovation or demolition, Heroic presents the concrete structures that defined Boston during this remarkable period—from the well-known (Boston City Hall, New England Aquarium, and cornerstones of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University) to the already lost (Mary Otis Stevens and Thomas F. McNulty’s concrete Lincoln House and Studio; Sert, Jackson & Associates’ Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School)—with hundreds of images; essays by architectural historians Joan Ockman, Lizabeth Cohen, Keith N. Morgan, and Douglass Shand-Tucci; and interviews with a number of the architects themselves. The product of 8 years of research and advocacy, Heroic surveys the intentions and aspirations of this period and considers anew its legacies—both troubled and inspired.
New Boston
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Author : James Phinney Munroe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1911
New Boston written by James Phinney Munroe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1911 with Boston (Mass.) categories.
New Boston
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Author : New Boston Historical Society (New Boston, N.H.)
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2004-01-01
New Boston written by New Boston Historical Society (New Boston, N.H.) and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with History categories.
For nearly two hundred fifty years, New Boston has been a wonderful combination of pioneering and industrious spirit, New England traditions, and picturesque landscape. This book describes the unique heritage of the Molly Stark Cannon; bicentennial homesteads that doubled as summer tourist destinations; natural oddities such as Frog Rock; and man-made sites such as an old military bombing range that is now used to track satellites. Why was New Boston known as the Gravity Center of the World? How did a single farm once supply the largest hotels in Boston with meat and dairy products? Historic photographs reveal a town steeped in tradition-on the farm; at work, school, or play; and during prosperous and troubled times.
After The Projects
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Author : Lawrence J. Vale
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019
After The Projects written by Lawrence J. Vale and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Legal assistance to the poor categories.
America is in the midst of a rental housing affordability crisis. More than a quarter of those that rent their homes spend more than half of their income for housing, even as city leaders across the United States have been busily dismantling the nation's urban public housing projects. In After the Projects, Lawrence Vale investigates the deeply-rooted spatial politics of public housing development and redevelopment at a time when lower-income Americans face a desperate struggle to find affordable rental housing in many cities. Drawing on more than 200 interviews with public housing residents, real estate developers, and community leaders, Vale analyzes the different ways in which four major American cities implemented the federal government's HOPE VI program for public housing transformation, while also providing a national picture of this program. Some cities attempted to minimize the presence of the poorest residents in their new mixed-income communities, but other cities tried to serve as many low-income households as possible. Through examining the social, political, and economic forces that underlie housing displacement, Vale develops the novel concept of governance constellations. He shows how the stars align differently in each city, depending on community pressures that have evolved in response to each city's past struggles with urban renewal. This allows disparate key players to gain prominence when implementing HOPE VI redevelopment. A much-needed comparative approach to the existing research on public housing, After the Projects shines a light on the broad variety of attitudes towards public housing redevelopment in American cities and identifies ways to achieve more equitable processes and outcomes for low-income Americans.
Federal Power Commission Reports
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Author : United States. Federal Power Commission
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
Federal Power Commission Reports written by United States. Federal Power Commission and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Energy facilities categories.
Contains all the formal opinions and accompanying orders of the Federal Power Commission ... In addition to the formal opinions, there have been included intermediate decisions which have become final and selected orders of the Commission issued during such period.
From The Puritans To The Projects
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Author : Lawrence J. Vale
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
From The Puritans To The Projects written by Lawrence J. Vale and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with Social Science categories.
From the almshouses of seventeenth-century Puritans to the massive housing projects of the mid-twentieth century, the struggle over housing assistance in the United States has exposed a deep-seated ambivalence about the place of the urban poor. Lawrence J. Vale's groundbreaking book is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination of the nature and extent of public obligation to house socially and economically marginal Americans during the past 350 years. First, Vale highlights startling continuities both in the way housing assistance has been delivered to the American poor and in the policies used to reward the nonpoor. He traces the stormy history of the Boston Housing Authority, a saga of entrenched patronage and virulent racism tempered, and partially overcome, by the efforts of unyielding reformers. He explores the birth of public housing as a program intended to reward the upwardly mobile working poor, details its painful transformation into a system designed to cope with society's least advantaged, and questions current policy efforts aimed at returning to a system of rewards for responsible members of the working class. The troubled story of Boston public housing exposes the mixed motives and ideological complexity that have long characterized housing in America, from the Puritans to the projects.
In Her Wake
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Author : Nancy Rappaport
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-08-11
In Her Wake written by Nancy Rappaport and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1963, Nancy Rappaport's mother committed suicide after a bitter divorce and custody battle. Nancy was four years old. As one of eleven children in a prominent Boston family, Nancy struggled to come to terms with the reasons why her mother took her own life. After years spent interviewing family and friends, Rappaport uncovers the story of a conflicted and troubled activist, socialite, and community leader. Drawing on court depositions, her mother's unpublished novel, newspapers, and her own experiences, she highlights heartbreaking stories of a complicated life that played out in the public eye. Inspiring, honest, and engaging, Rappaport's story sheds light on the agonizing nature of loss and healing, and reveals the permeable boundaries between therapists and the patients they treat.
Engineering Record Building Record And Sanitary Engineer
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Author : Henry Coddington Meyer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Engineering Record Building Record And Sanitary Engineer written by Henry Coddington Meyer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Building categories.
New Boston A Chronicle Of Prog
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Author : Inc Boston--1915
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-08-25
New Boston A Chronicle Of Prog written by Inc Boston--1915 and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-25 with History categories.