Boston: The Job Ahead (Publications of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, 14)

... Describes a complicated system of inter-related elements which make up the Boston metropolitan area; chapters discuss topics such as city government, taxation, Boston's relationship to its suburbs, traffic and transit, freight transport, housing, schools, law and order, beauty in the city and business development; originally issued as a series of articles commissioned by the New England Merchants National Bank in 1962 and printed as a series of broadsides; a copy of this was in the BRA collection ... Contents Introduction: A Point of View 1. The Power to Govern 2. The City and the Suburbs 3. The Tax Tangle 4. Traffic and Transit 5. Freight 6. Time Again for Enterprise 7. Which Way Downtown? 8. Housing 9. Schools 10. Youth 11. Law and Order 12. Beauty in the City Index Book by Meyerson, Martin, Banfield, Edward C.