Boston College. Boston Citizen Seminars
Historical note
In 1954, W. Seavey Joyce, SJ and John T. Galvin launched the Boston Citizen Seminars. These events brought together Boston’s political, business, and academic leaders to discuss the problems and challenges facing Boston, as well as the opportunities and plans for its development. Speeches, panels, discussions, and workshops addressed the construction of Government Center; the extensions of the Red, Green, and Orange lines of the MBTA; interstate expressway extensions; development of "The Hub" of downtown Boston; Boston Harbor; mayoral elections; public housing; Boston schools; and other issues of urban development and redevelopment. In 1992, many of the functions of the Seminars were folded into the newly founded Boston College Chief Executives Club, a knowledge-sharing and networking forum for business executives.
Alternate names
Conference on Greater Boston's Business Future, 1953
Conference on Economic Problems of the Boston Area, 1956
Boston College Seminar Research Bureau, 1958-1961
Seminar Research Bureau of Boston College, 1958-1961
Boston College Citizen Seminars, 1956-2013
Boston Citizen's Seminars, 1960-2005
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Boston Citizen Seminars records
Boston Citizen Seminars event and planning records, addressing affordable housing, government financing, labor, poverty, public green spaces, public schools, technology, transportation, and the future of the city of Boston.