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City planning exhibition opens with focus on equalizing urban life
The Metropolitan City Planning Exhibition opened in the State House east wing with speeches by Governor Walsh and Ralph Adams Cram. Leaders from the Homestead Commission and multiple planning boards outlined aims to eliminate slums, improve sanitation, and coordinate city development through a Massachusetts Federation of Planning Boards. The event featured extensive displays on fire prevention, port development, and model towns, with public attendance and a City Club dinner concluding the day.
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Congress of
State House
Massachusetts Homestead Commission
Boston City Club
City Planning Board
Ralph Adams Cram
Boston Planning Board
City Club
Mr. Cram
Planning Board
Europe
Walsh
State Capitol
Charles F. Gettemy
Kenyon L. Butterfield
Amherst Agricultural College
Homestead Commission
Patrick F. O’keefe
Council of Fifty
Curley
John E. Lathrop
New York
J. F. Genung
Amherst
Augustus P. Loring
Beverly
W. F. Jackson
Brockton
Harlan F. Kelsey
Salem
Benjamin A. Cook
Fitchburg
Joseph Feinberg
Attleboro
Boston Fire Department
D. L. Kensley
Watertown
Boston
Winchester
McCall
Winchester Centre
Planning Boards
Massachusetts Federation of Planning Boards
Vernon B. Swett
Newton
John J. Walsh
Flavel Shurtleff
Walter H. Kilham
Brookline
George R. Gallup
George F. Willett
Norwood
Frank A. Waugh
Arthur C. Comey
J. Asbury Pitman
C. H. Parsons
Springfield
John L. Saltonstall
Mabel. Tabor Lufkin
Taunton
J. Randolph Coolidge, Jr
David Snedden
Education
Massachusetts
William H. Sayward
Louis C. Newhall
Robert A. Woods
P Planning Boards