Preservation Movement and Urban Renewal & Anti-Highway Activism

Minoru Yamasaki

Pruitt-Igoe Housing

St. Louis, Missouri

Completed 1954, destroyed 1972

(the preservation movement and urban renewal)

Boston “Central Artery” (I-93)

Construction began 1950s

(the preservation movement and urban renewal)

The West End, before and after demolition of existing building stock to prepare for “urban renewal”

Late 1950s

(the preservation movement and urban renewal)

Government Center Development (the demolition of Scollay Square to make way for Boston City)

Boston

Begun late 1950s

(the preservation movement and urban renewal)

Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz, with Philip Johnson

Lincoln Center

New York

1961-65

(the preservation movement and urban renewal)

Robert Moses

Cross-Manhattan Arterial Proposal

1955

(the preservation movement and urban renewal)

Area Description for Home Owner’s Loan Corporation Security

Map of Greater Boston

1938

“Red-lining”

(anti-highway activism: Boston a case study)

Master Highway Plan for the Boston Metropolitan Area

1948

(anti-highway activism: Boston a case study)

Boston Redevelopment Authority, Family Relocation Department

Proposed path of Inner Belt and the Southwest Expressway

1967

(anti-highway activism: Boston a case study)

Perspective sketches of proposed highway development

Sometime before 1968

(anti-highway activism: Boston a case study)

Anti-highway sign along Southwest Corridor embankment

c. 1969

(anti-highway activism: Boston a case study)

Stull Associates

Urban Design Concept Plan

1978

(anti-highway activism: Boston a case study)

Stull Associates

Ruggles Station

Boston, Massachusetts

Dawings from 1979

Project completed 1987

(anti-highway activism: Boston a case study)