Boston: a topographical historyThis urbane and delightful book covering more than 300 years of the course of Boston's history has now been enlarged with an account of the city's new urban design, architecture, and historic preservation and is richly illustrated with 32 additional photographs and drawings. In the last three decades momentous changes have visited this colonial city made modern. Lawrence Kennedy portrays the Boston that preserved much of the intimacy of the remembered place while creating a dramatic new skyline. Boston has been remarkably transformed while keeping human the features of a beloved city. |
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User Review - jcbrunner - LibraryThingCombined with Kevin Lynch's Image of the City this book gives a good introduction to Boston's development which was literally raised out of the water. How small the city was up to the mid 19th century ... Read full review
Contents
Fittest for such as can trade into England | 10 |
The Eighteenth Century | 22 |
The Boston of Bulfinch | 47 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Boston: a topographical history Belknap Press Series |
| Authors | Walter Muir Whitehill, Lawrence W. Kennedy |
| Edition | 3, illustrated |
| Publisher | Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | May 21, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0674002687, 9780674002685 |
| Length | 380 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Architecture / History / General History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) History / General History / United States / State & Local / General History / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) |
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