New Boston Exhibition Tackles Urban Renewal

In what it admits is an “unlikely partnership,” the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the West End Museum have collaborated on an urban renewal exhibition, which opened at the museum last week.

The BRA, of course, is the agency behind the controversial demolition of Boston’s West End neighborhood in the 1950s, and the resulting displacement of residents in favor of new development and highways — all in the name of urban renewal.

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