Streetcar Suburbs
The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900, Second Edition
2nd Edition
Published on 1. January 1978
Book
Paperback/Softback
236 pages
978-0-674-84211-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
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 * 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 *More details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
67 halftones, 11 maps, 7 tables
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
349 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-84211-3 (9780674842113)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Sam Bass Warner, Jr., is Visiting Professor of Urban History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Content
PART 1: A CITY DIVIDED 1. Who Built the Metropolis? 2. Common Ideas and Experiences PART 2: THE LARGE INSTITUTIONS 3. The Walking City 4. The Street Railways 5. Other Services to Home Builders 6. Common Patterns of Decision PART 3: THE THREE TOWNS 7. The Discipline of History and Geography 8. The Three Towns, 1870-1900 PART 4: A SELECTIVE MELTING POT 9. The Street Railway and Class Building Patterns 10. The 1900 Segregation PART 5: LEAVE OF SMALL PATTERNS 11. Central Dorchester 12. Tremont Street District 13. Roxbury Highlands PART 6: REGULATION WITHOUT LAWS 14. The Home Builders 15. The Grid Street and Frontage Lot 16. Suburban Architecture PART 7: THE CONSEQUENCES Appendix: A Local Historian's Guide to Social Statistics Appendix B: Tables Bibliographical Note Notes Index