Research Guides: CityLab Fall 2018: Central Artery / Big Dig / Rose Kennedy Greenway

E-books

Rose Kennedy Greenway : creating long-term value
Call Number: Electronic Reserve

Books & Resources - In-Library Use Only

Boston Big Dig
Call Number: Vertical File - Boston Big Dig
Rose Kennedy Greenway
Call Number: Vertical File - Rose Kennedy Greenway

Books & Resources - Circulating

Boston's Central Artery by Yanni K. Tsipis
Call Number: HE356.5.B6 T78 2000
Boston GreenSpace Alliance's community greening workbook : a guide to developing and maintaining quality open space in your urban community
Call Number: HT393.M5 B67 1992
Central Artery (I-93)/Third Harbor Tunnel (I-90) project, Boston Massachusetts : final supplemental environmental impact statement/report, EOEA #4325
Call Number: HE356.5.B6 M34 1990
Greenway District planning study : public meeting
Call Number: HT 168 .B6 B685 2009x
Greenway district planning study use and development guidelines
Call Number: HT 168 .B6 B685 2010
Highway to the past : the archaeology of Boston's Big Dig
Call Number: F73.39 .H54 2001
Plan for the Central Artery : progress report
Call Number: HT168.B6 P56 1990
Urban Planning Today by Alexander Garvin (Introduction by); William S. Saunders (Editor)
Call Number: HT166 .U73 2006

Journal Articles - BAC Print Periodicals

The big sprig : Boston's Rose Kennedy Greenway has finally gotten what it always needed - time
Hough, Mark. "The big sprig : Boston's Rose Kennedy Greenway has finally gotten what it always needed - time." Landscape Architecture Magazine 106, no. 7 (July 2016): 84-103.
Boston's Big Dig
Faga, Barbara. "Boston's Big Dig." Topos: The International Review Of Landscape Architecture & Urban Design no. 51 (2005): 86-[92].
Boston's Big Dig: Open Space Time and Arteries - Boston's 'Big Dig' and the Rose Kennedy Greenway - a critical appraisal of transforming a major city highway and replacing it with a linear parkland
Krieger, Alex. "Boston's Big Dig: Open Space Time and Arteries - Boston's 'Big Dig' and the Rose Kennedy Greenway - a critical appraisal of transforming a major city highway and replacing it wih a linear parkland." Topos: The International Review Of Landscape Architecture & Urban Design no. 73 (2010): 68-75.
Reciprocal acts: reviving larger ambitions, incrementally: two recent projects by Reed Hilderbrand Associates in Boston, Massachusetts, reveal a sensibility about the city's new urban fabric - Boston's reconnected waterfront allows for new civic designs a
Hilderbrand, Gary R. "Reciprocal acts: reviving larger ambitions, incrementally: two recent projects by Reed Hilderbrand Associates in Boston, Massachusetts, reveal a sensibility about the city's new urban fabric - Boston's reconnected waterfront allows for new civic designs and now we can begin to assess their efficacy." Topos: The International Review Of Landscape Architecture & Urban Design no. 78 (2012): 74-81.

Journal Articles - Online Access

It's green and its controversial: a 25-block greenway covering the newly depressed Central Artery has its fans and its detractors
Turner, Robert L. "It's green and its controversial: a 25-block greenway covering the newly depressed Central Artery has its fans and its detractors." Planning 77, no. 1 (January 2011): 25-27.

Online Resources & Reports

Artery depression and tunnel vision
From the Internet Archive. Article reprinted from the Boston Globe Magazine of 31 July 1988 providing information on the construction of the depressed Central Artery and the Third Harbor Tunnel.
Boston 2000: a plan for the central artery: project overview
From the Internet Archive. Explanation of the air rights park plan for the land to be created by the depression of the Central Artery in downtown Boston.
Celebrate Boston
Provides historical overview of the Big Dig project.
Completing the "Big Dig" : managing the final stages of Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel Project
From the Internet Archive.
A design strategy for the central artery corridor, Boston, Massachusetts
From the Internet Archive. Urban design strategy for the use of the land that will be made available upon the completion of the depression of the Central Artery; includes some history of the development of the highway.

Images/Video

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Central Artery (Big Dig) and Rose Kennedy Greenway
Architectural drawings (floor plans, maps,aerial views,and landscape drawing), and exterior photos (including demolition)

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