The View From City Hall

Focuses on Boston as a microcosm of all metropolitan areas. Interviews Mayor Kevin White, who tells what it is like to be mayor of a large city where there are too many problems and too little time to solve them, urgency demands immediate answers but complex situations defy quick solutions. Presents the four major problems of the city as limited finances, archaic structure of city government, racial tension and political ostracism.

More in Ordeal of the American City Series

  1. The View From City Hall 1968
  2. A Piece Of The Action 1969

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