Download or read book Report of the Committee in Relation to the Commonwealth Flats Near South Boston written by Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book REPORT OF THE JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE ON BOSTON HARBOR 1852 written by CITY DOCUMENT # 60 and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Boston Harbor for the Year 1852 written by Boston (Mass.). City Council. Joint Standing Committee on Boston Harbor and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Document written by Boston (Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South Boston Flats written by Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on South Boston Flats and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 88 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 Pre. This book was released on 2009 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Documents of the City of Boston written by Boston (Mass.). City Council and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report for the year 1852 Appendix With plans written by BOSTON, Massachusetts. City Council. Joint Standing Committees. Committee on Boston Harbor and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gaining Ground written by Nancy S. Seasholes and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why and how Boston was transformed by landmaking. Fully one-sixth of Boston is built on made land. Although other waterfront cities also have substantial areas that are built on fill, Boston probably has more than any city in North America. In Gaining Ground historian Nancy Seasholes has given us the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created.The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent settlement to the present. Seasholes introduces findings from recent archaeological investigations in Boston, and relates landmaking to the major historical developments that shaped it. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, landmaking in Boston was spurred by the rapid growth that resulted from the burgeoning China trade. The influx of Irish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century prompted several large projects to create residential land—not for the Irish, but to keep the taxpaying Yankees from fleeing to the suburbs. Many landmaking projects were undertaken to cover tidal flats that had been polluted by raw sewage discharged directly onto them, removing the "pestilential exhalations" thought to cause illness. Land was also added for port developments, public parks, and transportation facilities, including the largest landmaking project of all, the airport. A separate chapter discusses the technology of landmaking in Boston, explaining the basic method used to make land and the changes in its various components over time. The book is copiously illustrated with maps that show the original shoreline in relation to today's streets, details from historical maps that trace the progress of landmaking, and historical drawings and photographs.
Download or read book Documents Printed by Order of the Senate written by Massachusetts. General Court. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains bills and other legislative documents.
Download or read book Eden on the Charles written by Michael Rawson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book List of Maps of Boston Published Subsequent to 1600 written by Boston (Mass.). Engineering Department and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Documents of Massachusetts written by Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 1496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Journal of the Senate written by Massachusetts. General Court. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
