Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four hour hearing at the State House, the Joint Committee on Cities listened to public discussion on House bill 319, which would turn over to Cambridge zoning control about 40 acres of land under the waters of the basin. The property is controlled by the Metropolitan District Commission, but owned by John Briston Sullivan (right), a Cambridge realtor...
Among the numerous proposals before the legislature this year are suggestions for the extension of the rapid transit system serving the Boston metropolitan area. There can be little doubt today that some new facilities are needed if the city is to escape an asphalt death...
...bills, now before the State Committee on Metropolitan Affairs, call for the extension of the subway to Porter Sq. under Massachusetts Ave. and, from there, to either Bedford or Weston...
...last two months the Teamsters have showed real evidence of renewed vigor in two major unionizing thrusts: one to take over Metropolitan police forces, the other to take control of workers in missiles and allied fields. Hoffa has backed away from his original stand that he would force unionization in every police force in the nation, but while his original position further damaged the unhappy reputation of the teamsters, within the union, Hoffa seems to have suffered little...
...relation of technological innovation to the metropolitan region, comparative analysis, both historical and contemporary of cities, and the application of research strategies to transportation problems are all areas of interest to the Center, according to Meyerson, as well as the question of methods of public and private control over urban change, problems of urbanization in developing countries, and investigations of social values and the community...