Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870–1900, Second Edition

Author:   Sam Bass Warner, Jr.
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
ISBN:  

9780674842113


Pages:   236
Publication Date:   01 January 1978
Format:   Paperback
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In the last third of the nineteenth century Boston grew from a crowded merchant town, in which nearly everybody walked to work, to the modern divided metropolis. The street railway created this division of the metropolis into an inner city of commerce and slums and an outer city of commuters' suburbs. Streetcar Suburbs tells who built the new city, and why, and how. Included here is a new Introduction that considers the present suburb/city dichotomy and suggests what we can learn from it to assure a livable city of the future.

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Author:   Sam Bass Warner, Jr.
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
Imprint:   Harvard University Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9780674842113


ISBN 10:   0674842111
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   01 January 1978
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

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Mr. Warner has given us a fine book, a lovely book, about the historic pattern of the housebuilding process in the suburbs...He has put to brilliant use the research resources he was able to find and evaluate. And, by means of his legwork and photography, he has added a nearly three-dimensional quality to his book. Journal of the American Institute of Planners With almost tender attention to detail and judicious selection of maps, charts, and especially photographs, Mr. Warner marks himself a Boston-lover ...This volume helps to unfold further the layers of complexities that conceal in obscurity the development of the modern city...A masterly introduction to the subject. American Historical Review


With almost tender attention to detail and judicious selection of maps, charts, and especially photographs, Mr. Warner marks himself a Boston-lover.,. This volume helps to unfold further the layers of complexities that conceal in obscurity the development of the modern city...A masterly introduction to the subject.


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Sam Bass Warner, Jr., is Visiting Professor of Urban History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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