Renewing Boston's municipal facilities

Alternate Titles

• Capital improvements program.

Description

...a capital improvement program designed to complete the renewal of Boston's municipal plant by 1975; covers schools, libraries, health and hospitals, Welfare Dept., parks and recreation, public safety (police and fire departments), traffic, corrections and public works (highway, water, sewer); gives data on expenditures for each improvement, source of funds and amount for each year; lists proposed facilities by neighborhood as well as by department; there are four editions of this document: one is a draft dated January 1963, a second of 278 pages dated May 1963, (a separate summary of this was also issued); the third (final?) consists of 115 pages and includes photos, tables and colored graphs; copies of these items were in the BRA collection...

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