Word: bra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last winter the Boston School Committee was looking for a site on which to build an elaborate new campus-style high school. The BRA prepared plans using 35 acres of Madison Park for the high school and devoting a great deal of the remaining land to industry. The School Committee voted last February 22 to put the high school in Madison Park, but to devote all the area's acreage to the school...
Madison Park residents said little while these proposals were being discussed in City Hall and at School Committee headquarters. The lack of commotion, especially since people were going to be relocated, seemed to confirm BRA findings that Madison Park was a neighborhood but not a community...
During the spring months, however, a few people in Madison Park who wished to stay there, and who would soon become the nucleus of the Lower Roxbury Community Corporation, sought ways to protest the BRA's plans for the area...
...says that it tries to act as an advocate for the poor by challenging existing urban planning proposals. It hopes to come up with plans and ideas which it feels represent the needs and desires of its clients more completely than do the plans of agencies like the BRA...
...just as the UPA does not trust the BRA, BRA officials frequently question the motivation of the people in UPA. Logue himself called them "tinker toy boys" and suggested that UPA was composed of frustrated academicians exploiting the people of Madison Park in an effort to try out their own planning ideas...