Explore a six-year plan to revitalize Boston Chinatown’s economy and its people.
This is a concise introduction to the Overall Economic Development Plan, a six-year framework for growing the Chinese community in Boston. It outlines goals, strategies, and specific projects aimed at improving housing, industry, commerce, and social services. The document emphasizes coordinated development across housing, technology, finance, and community programs to support sustainable progress.
What you’ll experience:
- A clear overview of the plan’s main goals, including human capital, income growth, and physical development.
- Key strategies like unbalanced growth, backward and forward linkages, coalitions, and growth-pole development.
- Specific development avenues such as housing demand, leading industries, and new financing institutions.
- Details on the social programs that support language training, job placement, health and elderly care, youth services, and cultural preservation.
Ideal for readers seeking a practical look at urban economic development, community planning, and the Boston Chinatown context in the late 1970s.