Download or read book A Social Survey of Chinatown Boston Massachusetts written by Ren-ying Gao and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Profile of Boston s Chinatown Neighborhood Classic Reprint written by Jeffrey P. Brown and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Profile of Boston's Chinatown Neighborhood Chinatown is a small neighborhood, the boundaries of which do not conform to any geographic units in available data bases. The closest approximation is a compilation of blocks within census tracts defined by the u.s. Bureau of the Census. See shaded area in Figure 1. In those blocks, the population in 1980 was Eighty percent of those persons were Asian and Pacific Islander. The population in those blocks more than doubled from 1970 to 1980. See Table 1. The influx was led by Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants, largely due to the United States' recognition of China and the admission of Indo - Chinese refugees beginning in 1978. Note that the actual population in Chinatown may have been greater than the Bureau of the Census reported, due to reluctance of some immigrants to respond to a government - sponsored survey. However, the suspected undercount has not been documented or estimated. For more detailed information on the inhabitants of Chinatown, an entire census tract-number 702 - provides a reasonable approximation of Chinatown. See the area within the heavy lines in Figure 1. The data for tract 702 indicate that population and housing grew rapidly in the l97os, contrary to the citywide trend. Yet most of the characteristics of the residents did not change significantly. Relative improvements in family income and poverty rates were the notable exception. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Chinatown Business Survey written by Boston Redevelopment Authority and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... survey includes data on types of businesses operating in Chinatown (average hours of operation, number of years in business, peak operating hours), number of employees, by type of business, employees' place of residence and journey to work, parking, delivery, and loading frequency, amount of office space and average rent paid (by type of business); percent of businesses offering health insurance; discusses problems of operating a business in Chinatown; data is based on a sample; copies of this item were in the BRA collection ...
Download or read book Gentrification and Social Capital in Boston Chinatown written by Michael Tsia and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinatown User Survey written by Deborah A. Oriola and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinatown Survey Area Land Use Report Classic Reprint written by Mary Bourguignon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-04 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chinatown Survey Area Land Use Report Description of Area. The Chinatown Survey Area is a twenty-eight block area which stretches from Essex Street to the Massachusetts Turnpike, just south of Downtown Boston. Exhibit 1 locates the survey area in the context of Downtown Boston. As Exhibit 2 shows, the area is bounded by Essex Street, the Southeast Expressway, Hudson Street, Marginal Road, Tremont Street, Oak Street and Washington Street. The Chinatown Survey Area encompasses the central area of Chinatown within the Downtown Interim Planning Overlay District (ipod). The survey does not include the adjacent South End areas with significant Chinese populations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Sociological Study of Chinese and Chinatown in Boston written by Margaret Meipei Huang and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinatown Survey Area Land Use Report written by Boston Redevelopment Authority and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... a survey of land use and land ownership in Boston's Chinatown; includes parcel listings organized by street (owner, address, square feet, use, parcel and block numbers given); data is also arranged by land use (residential, commercial, vacant, etc.), and by owner category (private, public, etc.); lists principal business establishments, by type and gives zoning information for the area; copies of this item were in the BRA collection ...
Download or read book Community Wide Needs Assessment Survey written by Bugs Henderson Group and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... a study by Dr. Tom Chung of the social human service needs of the Asian community served by Boston's Chinatown neighborhood; provides demographic data on those served, current utilization and potential growth of services, factors affecting service utilization, urgency of service, priority of client groups, priority of youth/teen problems and cross-service utilization; includes some statistics on Chinese dialect spoken, Vietnamese usage, and areas other than Chinatown that utilize Chinatown's services; a copy of this item was in the BRA collection ...
Download or read book Architecture Symbiosis a Study of Cultural Synthesis written by Hsuyuan Kuo and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present thesis will focus on the role of culture in architecture and urbanism. The new environment should represent the identity of its inhabitants and the coherence of existing urban context. Architecture and urban setting will play the role of mediator in order to achieve the cultural synthesis of the built environment. Boston Chinatown is the fourth largest Chinese neighborhood in the United States. This unique community represents part of Boston's rich and culturally and ethnically diverse neighborhoods. For most of the Asian community in the greater Boston area, Boston Chinatown serves as the prominent center of economic, social and cultural activity. Situated in the center of Boston, many proposals have been made the revitalization of Boston Chinatown. However, these previous proposals only responded to the physical problems and focused on partial development guideline, neglecting the importance of cultural issues as well as the relationship between Chinatown and the rest of the city. Three issues are of primary importance in the design process of this thesis: 1) investigation and analysis of the existing urban context in a city scale to study Chinatown in its strategic location within Boston, 2) utilization of the Chinese urban design principles as a tool to define the identity for Chinatown's habitants, 3) the synthesis between Chinese design principles and western urban context.
Download or read book Chinatown Housing Survey written by Boston Redevelopment Authority and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... report assessing the condition of housing units to determine the need for new construction and upgrading of current units used for residential, commercial, mixed residential and commercial and industrial purposes; buildings and housing units are assessed by type and conditions; also examines parking conditions and demographic characteristics; this item was in the BRA collection ...
Download or read book Beach Street Study Area written by Boston Redevelopment Authority and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... the study outlines short and long-range programs to maintain the Beach Street area of Boston's Chinatown as a focal point of Chinese cultural, community and social activities and to find ways the neighborhood could be strengthened to give residents a sense of permanence and economic stability; recommendations involve physical, environmental upgrade and housing stock increase; suggests establishing a development committee to represent all aspects of the community; includes maps of land use, land ownership, traffic flow, etc.; this item was in the BRA collection ...
Download or read book Chinatown Community Center Analysis of the Carrying Capacity of Its Proposed Occupants Draft written by Jonathan G. Truslow and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... draft study of the construction of the new community service facility on Parcel C in Boston's Chinatown; defines a range of building options and costs for the new facility and the ability of the seven organizations comprising the development committee to carry the costs of buildings in this range; also measures the gap between what the facility will cost to build and what the organization can afford; includes data on space allocation and rents; an earlier draft dated 26 April 1990 is also kept on this number; these items were in the BRA collection ...
Download or read book Center for Photographic Studies written by Michael McDonough and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Survey of Social Problems of New York Chinatown written by Daniel Lam and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Update Chinatown Community Plan Phase Ii Chinatown Rezoning Study written by Boston Redevelopment Authority and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... draft update on Boston's Chinatown rezoning considerations organized into six sub-districts (Historic Chinatown Subdistrict, Historic Chinatown Edge District, Residential Chinatown Subdistrict, Institutional Subdistrict, Turnpike Air Rights Subdistrict, Chinatown Gateway Subdistrict); each area is examined in terms of vision, existing characteristics, zoning and other considerations; this item was in the BRA collection ...
Download or read book Overdue Returned and Missing the Changing Stories of Boston s Chinatown Branch Library written by Aditi Mehta (M.C.P.) and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1896, the Boston Public Library (BPL) opened a reading room on Tyler Street in between the South End and Chinatown. Since then, the library has disappeared and reappeared in various forms in Chinatown for different reasons. In 1956, the City of Boston demolished the Tyler Street Branch Library and since 2000, community groups in Chinatown have been advocating for their own branch of the BPL. This thesis explores why the Chinatown community does not have a library in 2010 and why the movement to reclaim one has gained momentum in the past ten years. The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate that the public library is a diagnostic window into society; the building, its operations, and the services it provides reflect the social, economic, and political contexts of time and place. This research demonstrates that the story of Boston's Chinatown Branch Library is more than just a historical account of a building or concept; it is actually a story about the development of a neighborhood, the preservation of culture and identity, as well as the growth of coalitions and divisions. At first, the addition or removal of the library in Chinatown was largely an extension of city policy, and eventually the presence of a library in the neighborhood became an extension of grassroots community movements. The history of the Chinatown Library mirrors the changing attitudes towards community development in the United States. While reflecting on this chronology, this thesis aims to answer the following questions: What does the library mean to the Chinatown community? What do these meanings tell about the needs of this neighborhood? And, what is the role of a branch library in fulfilling these needs in the contemporary context? The Chinatown Library means different things to its various providers and users. Through archival research and interviews with city officials, library administrators, community members, and other stakeholders, this thesis theorizes that Boston's Chinatown Library has six meanings: 1) Assimilation Processing Center; 2) Gathering Place; 3) Economic Training Ground; 4) Ethnic Identity Assertion; 5) Turf Defense; and 6) Political Clout Building. This research analyzes the decision-making processes of the BPL in 2010 and discusses how and why stakeholders should incorporate library meanings into these processes. Lastly, this thesis provides recommendations and insights for moving forward to all the major players of the Chinatown Library movement.
