Download or read book Inventing the Charles River written by Karl Haglund and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-11-22 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated account of the creation of the Charles River Basin, focusing on the precarious balance between transportation planning and the stewardship of the public realm. The Charles River Basin, extending nine miles upstream from the harbor, has been called Boston's "Central Park." Yet few realize that this apparently natural landscape is a totally fabricated public space. Two hundred years ago the Charles was a tidal river, edged by hundreds of acres of salt marshes and mudflats. Inventing the Charles River describes how, before the creation of the basin could begin, the river first had to be imagined as a single public space. The new esplanades along the river changed the way Bostonians perceived their city; and the basin, with its expansive views of Boston and Cambridge, became an iconic image of the metropolis. The book focuses on the precarious balance between transportation planning and stewardship of the public realm. Long before the esplanades were realized, great swaths of the river were given over to industrial enterprises and transportation—millponds, bridges, landfills, and a complex network of road and railway bridges. In 1929, Boston's first major highway controversy erupted when a four-lane road was proposed as part of a new esplanade. At twenty-year intervals, three riverfront road disputes followed, successively more complex and disputatious, culminating in the lawsuits over "Scheme Z," the Big Dig's plan for eighteen lanes of highway ramps and bridges over the river. More than four hundred photographs, maps, and drawings illustrate past and future visions for the Charles and document the river's place in Boston's history.
Download or read book Inventing the Charles River Basin written by Karl T. Haglund and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Charles River Basin, extending from the foot of Beacon Hill upstream past Harvard's Soldiers Field, has been called Boston's "Central Park." The river looks to all appearances tranquil and unchanging, one of the most visible and carefully preserved natural features of Boston. In fact, the Basin is a totally contrived landscape. Before its creation could begin, the river had first to be imagined as a single public space. Robert Gourlay was the first to envision the Charles as "an amphitheatre of surpassing beauty." In 1844 he called for a "Science of City Building" which would harmonize "the streams, the islands, and the promontories" of Boston into a grand panorama. That vision also encompassed a "New Town" on the mud flats of the city's Back Bay, where education and opportunity would end the oppression of poverty. Two generations later, in their plan for a metropolitan park system, Sylvester Baxter and Charles Eliot advocated the "scientific selection" of public open space to establish a framework for the growth of the region. At the end of the twentieth century, Boston set out to build the largest highway project in the history of the United States. The Central Artery/Tunnel Project would demolish the forty-year-old elevated highway that cut through the heart of the city and replace it with a new underground road; it would also build the world's widest cable-stayed suspension bridge across the Charles River. In the course of the highway's design, more scientific analysis was brought to bear on the highway and its effects on the Charles River than Gourlay, Baxter, or Eliot could have imagined. Yet the unifying culture of refinement that sustained the creation of the metropolitan park system had dissipated; the planning for the Central Artery took place in a culture of disciplinary rather than civic professionalism. The highway project's critics had no disagreement with the benefits of demolishing the elevated highway. They argued for an equally ambitious vision for the neighborhoods around the Charles River and for the river itself, as the central public space of the metropolis.
Download or read book Final Report of the Charles River Basin Commission written by Massachusetts. Charles River Basin Commission and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Seventh Annual Report of the Charles River Basin Commission July 29 1903 Nov 30 1909 written by Massachusetts. Charles River Basin Commission and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles River Basin written by Massachusetts. Division of Water Resources and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First seventh Annual Report Of The Charles River Basin Commission July 29 1903 nov 30 1909 written by Massachusetts Charles River Basin Commi and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-04-13 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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 Report on Proposed Improvements of the Charles River Basin written by Massachusetts. Special Commission on the Charles River Basin and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Final Report of the Charles River Basin Commission written by Massachusetts Charles River Basin Commi and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-22 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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 Final Report of the Charles River Basin Commission written by Massachusetts. Charles River Basin Commi and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Charles River Basin a Water Park written by and published by . This book was released on 1944* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on Proposed Improvements of the Charles River Basin written by Massachusetts. Special Commission on the Charles River Basin and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Special Commission on the Charles River Basin was established to investigate methods of making the Charles River Basin more safe, suitable, and attractive for recreation (Resolves 1928, c 16). The final printed report was the result of research, hearings, and testimony of state and town officials. It consists of the text of the resolve; general history of the basin; summary of improvements since 1901; recommendations for additional improvements to parks, bridges, and roadways; summary of costs; excerpt from a report of the commissioner of public health; and text of a draft act providing for the construction of parkways and improvements in streets in Boston and Cambridge, which served as the basis for St 1929, c 37. Interspersed with the text of the report are photographs and plans, and tipped into the report is a map of proposed development of Cambridge Street to the Charles River Dam.
Download or read book The Improvement of the Charles River Basin written by Henry Lee Higginson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MIT written by Douglass Shand-Tucci and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was founded in 1861 as the cornerstone of Copley Square in Boston's Back Bay, then the center of a progressive, proto-globalist Brahmin culture committed to intellectual modernism and educational innovation. MIT founder William Barton Rogers's radical vision to teach by "mind and hand" was immediately successful. In 1916 MIT, growing by leaps and bounds, moved its campus to the nearby Charles River Basin in Cambridge, where it now stretches along the shore overlooking the Back Bay. MIT: The Campus Guide presents the history of the Institute's founding and its two campuses. Today, the campus is studded with buildings designed by noted architects such as William Welles Bosworth, Alvar Aalto, Eero Saarinen, I. M. Pei, Steven Holl, Charles Correa, J. Meejin Yoon, Frank Gehry, and Fumihiko Maki, among others. Alongside the architecture is a distinguished array of public art including works by Picasso, Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Louise Nevelson, Frank Stella, Sol LeWitt, and Jaume Plensa.
Download or read book Charles River Basin Commission written by Massachusetts. Charles River Basin Commission and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Seventh Annual Report of the Charles River Basin Commission written by Massachusetts. Charles River Basin Commission and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Seventh Annual Report of the Charles River Basin Commission written by Massachusetts. Charles River Basin Commission and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Seventh Annual Report of the Charles River Basin Commission July 29 1903 Nov 30 1909 written by Massachusetts. Charles River Basin Commission and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
