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In the heart of the city, a fight brews over what's needed more: parkland or social services


In the heart of the city, a fight brews over what’s needed more: parkland or social services
By David Abel Globe Staff,Updated May 12, 2021, 9:22 a.m.
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For decades, the austere hospital has stood as a monument to poor urban planning, critics say,
a brick-covered eyesore looming over the city’s largest park and an enduring affront to Frederick Law Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace.
Yet the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital and surrounding buildings on a 13-acre campus carved out of a tree-shaded meadow in Franklin Park in the 1950s have long
provided essential medical care and social services that would be difficult to place elsewhere. ....

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