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• Sketches of Boston, past and present, and of some few places in its vicinity ... (Phillips, Sampson, and Company [etc.], 1851), by I. Smith Homans and Harvard University (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walks and rides in the country round about Boston (Published for the Appalachian Mountain Club by Houghton, Mifflin ;, 1900), by Edwin M. Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boston : a guide book (Boston : LeRoy Phillips, 1922), by Edwin M. Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boston : a guide book (Ginn & Company, 1910), by Edwin M. Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press and MIT Press, 1962), by Sam Bass Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Revitalizing older houses in Charlestown ([Washington, D.C.] : [U.S. G.P.O.], [1973], 1973), by George Stephen, Richard S. Joslin, and Boston Redevelopment Authority (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report. (Boston., 1915), by Boston (Mass.). City Planning Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on city planning in relation to the street system in the Boston metropolitan district. ([Boston], 1914), by Boston (Mass.) Chamber of Commerce. Committee on city planning and Flavel Shurtleff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charting the future of urban renewal. ([Boston], 1959), by Boston Municipal Research Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on improvements to be built from the income of the George Robert White fund (Boston, Mass., 1937), by F. Stuart Chapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Surging cities; a secondary school textbook in two parts (Greater Boston Development Committee, 1948), by Theodore Tremain McCrosky and Charles A. Blessing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Joint Committee on Public Lands in relation to the Public Garden, July, 1850. (J.H. Eastburn, City Printer, 1850), by Boston (Mass.). Committee on the Public Lands (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report of the City Planning Board for the year ending ... (The Board, 1915), by Boston (Mass.). City Planning Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plans for beautifying New York and for enlarging and improving the city of Boston being studies to illustrate the science of city building (Crocker & Brewster :, 1844), by Robert Gourlay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Valedictory address of Andrew J. Peters, Mayor of Boston to the City Council : delivered in the council chamber, February 1, 1922. (Print. Dept., 1922), by Andrew James Peters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annual report. ([Boston], between 1000 and 1999), by Massachusetts. Metropolitan District Commission and Massachusetts. Division of Metropolitan Planning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public parks : speech of Alderman O'Brien to the Board of Aldermen. (Rockwell and Churchill, 1877), by Hugh O'Brien and Boston (Mass.). Board of Aldermen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Benefit-cost analysis and urban renewal in the west end of Boston (Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies, 1974), by Edward J Ford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Statement of plan for rearrangement of Copley Square. (Municipal Printing Office, 1907), by Charles Howard Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A planning study of the North Station area, Boston, Massachusetts (Advance Planning Associates, 1960), by Mass.) Advance Planning Associates (Cambridge and North Station Merchants Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report on the proposed Government Center redevelopment project. (City Planing Board, 1958), by Boston (Mass.). City Planning Board (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A preliminary sketch plan statement for Boston regional core, City of Boston and the Metro City Area (Boston Redevelopment Authority, Comprehensive Planning Division, 1961), by Boston Redevelopment Authority (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• General plan for Boston; preliminary report. ([Boston], 1950), by Boston (Mass.). City Planning Board (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Government Center study : a preliminary report. (City Planning Board, 1956), by Boston (Mass.). City Planning Board (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Boston's streets, also its avenues, courts, places, etc. (Boston., in the 20th century), by Boston (Mass.). Board of Street Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rehabilitation in Boston. (City Planning Board, 1900), by Boston (Mass.). City Planning Board (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Implications for planning policy of neighborhood resistance to urban renewal and highway proposals (Department of Sociology, Brandeis University, 1970), by Gordon Fellman and Brandeis University. Department of Sociology (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Decent Place to Live: From Columbia Point to Harbor Point, A Community History (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000), by Jane Roessner (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• A Decent Place to Live: From Columbia Point to Harbor Point, A Community History (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000), by Jane Roessner (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• A general plan for the central business district : a downtown for people. (Boston City Planning Board, 1960), by Boston (Mass.). Planning Board (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Preliminary research for the redevelopment of Boston's retail district : report to the Boston City Planning Board (Arthur D. Little], 1957), by Inc Arthur D. Little and Boston (Mass.). City Planning Board (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The North end, a survey and a comprehensive plan (Printing department, 1919), by Boston (Mass.). City Planning Board and Ralph Adams Cram (page images at HathiTrust)
• The middle-income Negro family faces urban renewal ([n. p.], 1964), by Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare. Research Center, Lewis G. Watts, and Massachusetts. Department of Commerce and Development (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Community organization for citizen participation in urban renewal (Boston, 1957), by Housing Association of Metropolitan Boston, William C. Loring, and Massachusetts. Dept. of Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• South End factory operatives : employment and residence (South End House Association, 1903), by Roswell Foulk Phelps and Mass.) South End House (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)

• Woodbourne : a description of single and semi-detached houses offered at this attractive site by the Boston Dwelling House Company, with terms of sale. (The Company, 1912), by Boston Dwelling House Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Discrimination in housing in the Boston metropolitan area; report. ([Washington?], 1963), by United States Commission on Civil Rights. Massachusetts Advisory Committee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Act of incorporation and by-laws of the Boston Co-operative Building Co. (W.L. Deland, 1871), by Boston Co-operative Building Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• The lodging house problem in Boston (Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1906., 1906), by Albert Benedict Wolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lodging house problem in Boston. (Harvard University Press, 1913), by Albert Benedict Wolfe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the committee on the expediency of providing better tenements for the poor (Eastburn's Press, 1846), by S. H. Perkins and Boston (Mass.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• HUD's policies on multifamily housing : the Boston experience : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session, November 14, 1986. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1987), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Employment and Housing Subcommittee (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Decent Place to Live: From Columbia Point to Harbor Point, A Community History (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000), by Jane Roessner (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• Some slums in Boston (Twentieth Century Club, 1898), by Harold Kelsey Estabrook and YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The role of enforcement in short-range transportation planning : final report (Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Office of Policy Research ;, 1980), by Michael D. Meyer, James Sheldon-Dean, United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration. Office of Policy Research, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Transportation Studies (page images at HathiTrust)

• Street traffic in the city of Boston; a study made under the direction of the Governing Board of the Under Forty Division, Boston Chamber of Commerce. (E.L. Grimes Co.], 1914), by Boston Chamber of Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The motorists' case for a central traffic artery. (Boston, 1941), by Boston (Mass.). Mayor's Conference on Traffic (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Shared-ride taxi service in Boston, MA. (Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Service and Methods Demonstration Division ;, 1985), by Daniel Fleishman, United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration. Service and Methods Demonstration Division, Transportation Systems Center, and Inc Multisystems (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the hearings before the Cambridge Board of aldermen on the petition of the Charles River street railway company for certain locations for their tracks in the city of Cambridge. ([Cambridge, Mass.?] : [publisher not identified], [1881], 1881), by Cambridge (Mass.). Board of aldermen, Boston Union railway company, and Boston Charles River street railway company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the evidence and arguments in favor of the petition of the Charles River street railway co. before the Committee on street railways, of the Massachusetts legislature of 1882 ... ([Boston?, 1882), by Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Street-Railways and Charles River Street Railway Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Larger aspects of passenger transportation in metropolitan Boston. Report of the Boston City planning board to the Massachusetts Public service commission. (Boston, City Printing Dept., 1914., 1914), by Boston (Mass.). City Planning Board, Ralph Adams Cram, and Massachusetts. Public Service Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• The street railway system of metropolitan Boston (McGraw publishing company, 1908), by Abraham Edward Pinanski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evidence and arguments before the Committee on horse railroads of the legislature of Massachusetts, session of 1872, upon the petition for incorporation of the Highland railway company and the petition of the Middlesex railroad company. (Boston, 1872), by Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on horse railroads (page images at HathiTrust)
• Surface cars of Boston, 1903-1963. (H. E. Cox, 1963), by New England Electric Railway Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boston Elevated Railway Company. Statutes, surface railway leases, contracts for use of subways and tunnels, 1887-July, 1912 (Press of Geo. H. Ellis Co., 1912), by Boston Elevated Railway Company and Snow & Saltonstall Gaston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Rapid Transit Commission to the Massachusetts Legislature. (Rapid Transit Commission, 1892), by Massachusetts. Rapid Transit Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legislation; court decisions : contract for the use of the subway authorized by chapter 548, acts of 1894. : contract for the use of the tunnel and subway authorized by chapter 534, acts of 1902 : lease of the East Boston tunnel authorized by chapter 500, acts of 1897. ([s.n.], 1905), by Boston. Transit Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the West End street railway, in which is included sketches of the early street railway of Boston- consolidation of the various lines- foreign street railways- the Berlin viaduct- anecdotes, etc., together with speeches by President Henry M. Whitney, and others. Also, expert testimony as to the safety of electric currents ... (Ed. and pub. by L.P. Hager, 1892), by Louis P. Hager (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legislation, court decision, contracts and leases for the use of the subways and tunnels. 1916. ((Boston, 1916), by Boston (Mass.). Transit Commission and Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Locations of the Boston street railways, granted by the Board of Aldermen : volume II. (Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1879), by Boston City Council and Boston (Mass.). Board of Aldermen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statement of the Boston Elevated Railway Company (Boston, 1916), by Boston Elevated Railway Company, Massachusetts. General Court. Special Commission to Consider the Financial Condition of the Boston Elevated Railway Company, and Snow & Saltonstall Gaston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marginal Railroad (City Council, 1851), by Boston (Mass.). City Council. Committee on the Marginal Railroad and Ellis Sylvester Chesbrough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marginal Railroad (Boston : Wright & Potter, 1867., 1867), by Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Railways and Canals, Harvey Scudder, Edward Crane, Thomas Russell, and Marginal Railroad (page images at HathiTrust)
• The charters and locations of the several street railways in the city of Boston. 1869. (A. Mudge & son, city printers, 1869), by Boston City Council and Massachusetts (page images at HathiTrust)

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