Thinking Small : Transportation's Role in Neighborhood Revitalization : A Report on a Conference Held February 22-24, 1978, Baltimore, Maryland

By United States. Department of Transportation

Book Id: WPLBN0002043453
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Title:	Thinking Small : Transportation's Role in Neighborhood Revitalization : A Report on a Conference Held February 22-24, 1978, Baltimore, Maryland
Author:	United States. Department of Transportation
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Political participation, South End Committee on Transportation (SECOT), Boston (Mass.), Southwest Expressway, Boston (Mass.)
Collections:	Government Library Collection
Historic Publication Date:	1978
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Citation APA MLA Chicago States. Department Of Transportatio, B. U. (1978). Thinking Small : Transportation's Role in Neighborhood Revitalization : A Report on a Conference Held February 22-24, 1978, Baltimore, Maryland. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
This report represents the proceedings of a conference held in Baltimore, Maryland in February, 1978 to discuss small-scale transportation solutions as a means of revitalizing urban neighborhoods. The report is divided into two sections. The first part discusses the major issues involved in planning for these improvements, including citizen involvement, the role of local governments, and the many forms of pedestrian, paratransit, parking, and street-improvement strategies available to the transportation planner.][The second part consists of three case studies discussed at the Baltimore conference. Successful projects, involving a number orf very different techniques, in Boston, St. Louis and Seattle are described in some detail.; the Boston study focuses on the South End and includes a brief history of this neighborhood, its street development and transportation problems; documents the growth of opposition to planned street and highway improvements (Southwest Expressway, South End Bypass, etc.) and the role of the South End Committee on Transportation (SECOT) in halting these projects and in improving traffic patterns in the South End which involved the reconstruction of Columbus Avenue and Tremont Street and street direction changes; this report, by Ellen Harding Gordon, appears on pages 67 through 91 of this document which was part of the BRA collection..

Summary
Contributor: Boston Public Library ; The digitization of this title was sponsored by Boston Public Library

Excerpt
Additional Subjects: Streets; Columbus Avenue / Tremont Street, Boston (Mass.); Roads; South End Bypass, Boston (Mass.); Traffic; Transportation; Transportation; Urban renewal