Synopses & Reviews
Boston is a city that has constantly reimagined itself, from the leveling and filling of the original peninsula to the creation of the Back Bay in the 19th century to the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, the largest public works project in American history.
As assistant secretary of transportation under Frederick Salvucci, James Aloisi had an insider's view of what we now know as the Big Dig. Aloisi's insightful contribution to Commonwealth Editions' New England Remembers Series traces the complex series of engineering, political, and financial transactions, compromises, and battles that transformed the heart of Boston from a historic American city ripped open by a misconceived central artery in the 1960s to the revitalized urban community of the early 21st century.
Synopsis
A brief history of Boston's Big Dig, the largest public works project in American history.
About the Author
Robert J. Allison is chairman of the history department of Suffolk University in Boston and teaches courses in American Constitutional history and the history of Boston at Harvard Extension School. He lives in South Boston and summers in Provincetown on Cape Cod.