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City PlanningModernNeighborhood LifeNew BostonUrban Renewal Aerial photograph of an airfield with four hangars and parked aircraft and vehicles, surrounded by water and and isthmus at the bottom and cleared land followed by a built up urban area at the top

Urban Renewal at Logan Airport

In 1943, Boston resident Louis Stern wrote a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe, proposing that the West End be razed to build a new airport, conveniently located downtown. This idea was never seriously considered, though the East Boston Airport (Logan Airport) has its own controversial history of urban renewal.

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