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Jan 1934
The Plan of Boston, Massachusetts: A Capital City
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State capitals, by example, inspire other cities in planning. The State functions may dominate a small city, or they may merely furnish the basis for a fine architectural treatment, as in Boston, Mass., the largest State capital. Boston's plan relates to its commercial and other municipal activities as a metropolis. It also shows the effect of its long history of 300 years. It still has many early architectural gems. At first, the streets were narrow and crooked. Later, checker-board streets were laid out in new territory and on filled-in mud-flats, thus, destroying Boston's peninsular shape.
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Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Volume 99 • Issue 1 • January 1934
Pages: 777 - 788
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© 1934 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Arthur C. Comey, M.ASCE
Cons. City Planning Engr., Cambridge, Mass.
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