Tent City Apartments - CityLab Fall 2022 - Southwest Corridor - Research Guides at Boston Architectural College

Books - Main Stacks

Roxbury/South End : housing construction underway in Boston by Boston Redevelopment Authority
Call Number: HD7304.R67 R67 1986
The Boston Renaissance by Barry Bluestone; Mary Huff Stevenson
Call Number: HN80.B6 B67 2000

Tent City can be found on pgs. 88 and 89.

Books - Theses

Tent City park project, Boston, Mass. by Stockstrom McMillen
Call Number: BAC THESIS 223
Tent City development by Kenneth N. Henson
Call Number: BAC THESIS 515

Journals - BAC Print Periodicals

From tents to town houses: mixed-income housing, Tent City, Boston, Goody, Clancy & Associates, Inc., Architects
Anderson, Grace M. Architectural Record 176, no. 13 (November 1988): 90-93.
The original Tent City.
Faia, Rob Chandler. Architecture Boston 19, no. 3 (Fall2016 2016): 7.

Journals - Online Access

Low-cost housing: eleven projects by eight architects represent a range of building types, from emergency shelters to single-room occupancy hotels to four-bedroom townhouses
Progressive Architecture 69, no. 10 (October 1988): 70-86.

Online E-books & Plans

Boston tent city site by Total Studio; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Architecture and Planning; Tent City Task Force
Call Number: Online
Tent city - memorandum of understanding by Boston Redevelopment Authority
Call Number: Online
Tent city, Boston, Massachusetts - draft environmental impact report/statement by Sasaki Associates
Call Number: Online
Tent city, Boston, Massachusetts - draft environmental impact report/statement ERRATA by Sasaki Associates
Call Number: Online
Housing creation proposal by urban investment and development co., developer of 116 Huntington avenue for Tent City housing by Boston Redevelopment Authority; Urban Investment and Development Company (Chicago, Ill.)
Call Number: Online
A new attitude towards provision of affordable housing: a case study on the tent city project in Boston's south end by Tsai, Freda
Call Number: Online
Tent city: a development proposal for parcels 11a and 11b in the south end urban renewal area: urban development action grant application to the U.S. department of housing and urban development by Boston Redevelopment Authority
Call Number: Online
Public hearing: the city of Boston, office of public service re: the urban development action grant for the copley place: before: william Holland, paul carey, richard garver, george bennett, jefferey chmura, steven eimer, kenneth himmel, place: Boston pub by Massachusetts; Eyal Reporting Service
Call Number: Online

This eBook contains extensive information about Tent city.

Online Resources

Joseph P. Healey Library
The records of the Tent City Corporation, from 1968-1987, are available through the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Internet Archive
Primary source materials relating to the Tent City Corporation including proposals, development plans, loan agreements, and a public hearing are available digitally through the Internet Archive.
Goody Clancy
Goody Clancy provides an overview and images of the Tent City Corporation urban development community.
Boston TV News Digital Library
The Boston TV News Digital Library provides news stories and videos related to the Tent City Corporation and protest.

Experiments in Public Housing: Appendix: A Reexamination of Subsidized Housing Policy and Design

Experiments in Public Housing: Appendix: A Reexamination of Subsidized Housing Policy and Design by Northeastern University Graduate Program of Architecture Masters Research Studio

Images/Films

Image Collection

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Tent City: 12 images
Architectural drawings (floor plans and site plan), and exterior and interior photos

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CityLab Fall 2022 - Southwest Corridor: Tent City Apartments