Download or read book Boston Park Guide written by Sylvester Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston written by Virginia H. Adams and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thirty Years of Greater Boston s Metropolitan Park System written by Sylvester Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History and Description of the Boston Metropolitan Parks written by Massachusetts. Metropolitan Park Commission and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Blue Hills Reservation Parkways Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston written by Virginia H. Adams and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nomination of the Mystic Valley Parkway Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston to the National Register of Historic Places written by Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners written by Massachusetts. Metropolitan Park Commission and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Metropolitan Park System of Boston written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System written by Cynthia Zaitzevsky and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether flying a kite in Franklin Park, gardening in the Fens, or jogging along the Riverway, today's Bostonians are greatly indebted to the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted, America's premier landscape architect. Zaitzevsky's book is a richly detailed, fully illustrated account of the design and construction of Olmsted's Boston parks.

Download or read book The Hub s Metropolis written by James C. O'Connell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of the Boston metropolitan area, from country villages and streetcar suburbs to exurban sprawl and “smart growth.” Boston's metropolitan landscape has been two hundred years in the making. From its proto-suburban village centers of 1800 to its far-flung, automobile-centric exurbs of today, Boston has been a national pacesetter for suburbanization. In The Hub's Metropolis, James O'Connell charts the evolution of Boston's suburban development. The city of Boston is compact and consolidated—famously, “the Hub.” Greater Boston, however, stretches over 1,736 square miles and ranks as the world's sixth largest metropolitan area. Boston suburbs began to develop after 1820, when wealthy city dwellers built country estates that were just a short carriage ride away from their homes in the city. Then, as transportation became more efficient and affordable, the map of the suburbs expanded. The Metropolitan Park Commission's park-and-parkway system, developed in the 1890s, created a template for suburbanization that represents the country's first example of regional planning. O'Connell identifies nine layers of Boston's suburban development, each of which has left its imprint on the landscape: traditional villages; country retreats; railroad suburbs; streetcar suburbs (the first electric streetcar boulevard, Beacon Street in Brookline, was designed by Frederic Law Olmsted); parkway suburbs, which emphasized public greenspace but also encouraged commuting by automobile; mill towns, with housing for workers; upscale and middle-class suburbs accessible by outer-belt highways like Route 128; exurban, McMansion-dotted sprawl; and smart growth. Still a pacesetter, Greater Boston has pioneered antisprawl initiatives that encourage compact, mixed-use development in existing neighborhoods near railroad and transit stations. O'Connell reminds us that these nine layers of suburban infrastructure are still woven into the fabric of the metropolis. Each chapter suggests sites to visit, from Waltham country estates to Cambridge triple-deckers.

Download or read book A History And Description Of The Boston Metropolitan Parks written by Board of Paris Exposition Managers (B and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive guide to the metropolitan parks in the Boston area, including historical background, descriptions of the parks' features, and maps of the park system. It is an ideal resource for park visitors, historians, and anyone interested in the development of urban green space in the United States. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Plan of Metropolitan Park System Showing Local Public Reservations and Holdings of Park Commission Boston Mass 1901 written by Frederick Law Olmsted and Associates Collection and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History Description of the Boston Metropolitan Parks written by Boston (Mass.). Metropolitan Park Commission and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vegetation and Scenery in the Metropolitan Reservations of Boston written by Charles Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Enhancing the Future of the Metropolitan Park System written by Green Ribbon Commission and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Remaking Boston written by Anthony N. Penna and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2009-12-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its settlement in 1630, Boston, its harbor, and outlying regions have witnessed a monumental transformation at the hands of humans and by nature. Remaking Boston chronicles many of the events that altered the physical landscape of Boston, while also offering multidisciplinary perspectives on the environmental history of one of America's oldest and largest metropolitan areas. Situated on an isthmus, and blessed with a natural deepwater harbor and ocean access, Boston became an important early trade hub with Europe and the world. As its population and economy grew, developers extended the city's shoreline into the surrounding tidal mudflats to create more useable land. Further expansion of the city was achieved through the annexation of surrounding communities, and the burgeoning population and economy spread to outlying areas. The interconnection of city and suburb opened the floodgates to increased commerce, services and workforces, while also leaving a wake of roads, rails, bridges, buildings, deforestation, and pollution. Profiling this ever-changing environment, the contributors tackle a variety of topics, including: the glacial formation of the region; physical characteristics and composition of the land and harbor; dredging, sea walling, flattening, and landfill operations in the reshaping of the Shawmut Peninsula; the longstanding controversy over the link between landfills and shoaling in shipping channels; population movements between the city and suburbs and their environmental implications; interdependence of the city and its suburbs; preservation and reclamation of the Charles River; suburban deforestation and later reforestation as byproducts of changing land use; the planned outlay of parks and parkways; and historic climate changes and the human and biological adaptations to them.

Download or read book A History and Description of the Metropolitan Park System of Boston written by Arthur Asahel Shurcliff and published by . This book was released on with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes Boston's park system, including a description of metropolitan Boston, the topography of the metropolitan district in 1893, and the work of the Metropolitan Park Commission. Includes chapter headings, footnotes and corrections.