Map of the existing and proposed radial thoroughfares of the district and their connections

Title:: Map of the existing and proposed radial thoroughfares of the district and their connections
Title (alt.):: Commonwealth of Massachusetts Metropolitan Improvements Commission
Description:: A comprehensive plan for improving traffic in the growing Boston urban area was submitted to the Metropolitan Improvements Commission in 1909 by Shurtleff, a visionary landscape architect. His scheme was simple, logical, and much ahead of its time. He proposed widening the radial roads emanating from the core and intersecting them with a series of concentric ring roads. Shown here are the existing and proposed radial roads.
Contributor:: Massachusetts. Metropolitan Improvements Commission
Creator:: Shurcliff, Arthur A. (Arthur Asahel), 1870-1957
Name on Item:: Arthur A. Shurtleff ; Commonwealth of Massachusetts Metropolitan Improvements Commission
Date:: 1909
Format:: Maps/Atlases
Location:: Private Collection
Collection (local):: Mapping Boston Collection
Subjects:: Highway planning--Massachusetts--Boston
Boston (Mass.)--Maps
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 map : col. ; 68 x 82 cm.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3f4637316
Terms of Use:: No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).

Publisher:: Boston, Mass : [The Commission]
Scale:: Scale 1:63,360
Language:: English
Notes:: Topographical sheets secured by courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.
From: Public Improvements for the Metropolitan District. Report of the Commission on Metropolitan Improvements, 1909.
Né Shurtleff, name changed in 1930.
Identifier:: 06_01_001152
Barcode:: 39999052508197