Boston Redevelopment Authority. Seven Years of Progress: A Final Report.

In the report, BRA director Edward Logue predicts, “[By 1975] downtown has become a marvelous combination of Olde Boston, still very much here, and a new Boston – apartment towers on the Waterfront . . . down to a Waterfront Park where the harbor and the sea open before you. Boston’s residential neighborhoods are renewed. Their schools and other public services have reached the quality level of the better suburbs and the exodus of families has halted.” He continues, “[Boston’s] neighborhoods are secure about their future, because for one thing, they had a lot to say about it,” and concludes, “The Boston Redevelopment Authority will vote to dissolve, its work completed” and that the people of Boston would “not only . . . enjoy governing themselves, but they do it rather well.”