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Eden on the Charles : the making of Boston / Michael Rawson

Catalog Data

Author:
Rawson, Michael  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 367 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
Massachusetts
Boston
Boston (Mass.)
Date:
2014
19th century
Contents:
Prologue: To build a city -- Enclosing the Common -- Constructing water -- Inventing the suburbs -- Making the harbor -- Recreating the wilderness -- Epilogue: The city complete -- Note on Boston Common petitions
Summary:
"Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don't think twice about them. But such simple actions are structured by complex relationships with our natural world. The contours of these relationships social, cultural, political, economic, and legal were established during America's first great period of urbanization in the nineteenth century, and Boston, one of the earliest cities in America, often led the nation in designing them. A richly textured cultural and social history of the development of nineteenth-century Boston, this book provides a new environmental perspective on the creation of America's first cities."--Page 4 of cover.
Topic:
City planning--History  Search this
Human ecology--History  Search this
History  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1082223