Word: chinatown
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...Massachusetts planners decided to route their futuristic “highway in the sky”—known now as the Central Artery—in part through the city’s Chinatown district. The swathe of destruction that construction of the highway brought with it was enormous: throughout the city, over 1,000 structures were demolished—displacing 20,000 people. Chinatown lost churches, public buildings and residences in the construction of an on-ramp. According to Chinatown activist, 300 families were displaced in the seizure of the land in Chinatown, and complaints have been...
...completion of the Big Dig, is an opportunity for Boston to rectify the mistreatment of Chinatown almost half a century ago. While up to 70 percent of the land freed as a consequence of the Big Dig due to the destruction of the Central Artery is slated for open space in most plans, the remainder will be developed in parcels to improve the economic viability of Boston...
Introducing special legislation to return the land to Chinatown will likely lead other neighborhoods to push for their own entitlements and compensations. Approving the bill would set a bad precedent for eminent domain and also lead to an uncoordinated building effort for downtown Boston—a veritable planning disaster...
...pursuit of happiness is the highest creed of any patriotic American. What better way to spend the holiday than perusing pornographic videos or purchasing a lap dance in Boston’s Combat Zone! City zoning confines the sex shops and strip clubs to this notorious part of Chinatown. How P.C., Boston...
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