Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston - Couverture rigide

Rawson, Michael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674048415 ISBN 13 : 9780674048416

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The Making of Boston

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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. "Eden on the Charles" explores how Bostonians channeled country lakes through miles of pipeline to provide clean water; dredged the ocean to deepen the harbor; filled tidal flats and covered the peninsula with houses, shops, and factories; and created a metropolitan system of parks and greenways, facilitating the conversion of fields into suburbs. The book shows how, in Boston, different class and ethnic groups brought rival ideas of nature and competing visions of a city upon a hill to the process of urbanization and were forced to conform their goals to the realities of Boston s distinctive natural setting. The outcomes of their battles for control over the city s development were ultimately recorded in the very fabric of Boston itself. In Boston s history, we find the seeds of the environmental relationships that for better or worse have defined urban America to this day.

Revue de presse :

A loving and thorough history of nineteenth-century Boston debates about suburban settlement and the major public works of the era. It is a fine exposition of what seems now to be holding us back from adapting to the needs of the twenty-first century. --Sam Bass Warner, Jr., Author Of "the Urban Wilderness" And "province Of Reason"

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0674048415
• ISBN 13: 9780674048416
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384