Title Inventing the Charles River / Karl Haglund

Published Cambridge : MIT Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 493 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) Contents Foreword / Renata von Tscharner -- Earth Work -- The Science of City Building -- A Water Park -- The Emerald Metropolis -- Damming the Basin -- The Colleges and the Esplanades -- Highways and Park Ways -- The Lost Half Mile -- The Big Dig -- Crossing the Charles -- Urban Visions and the Future of the River -- Views from the River Summary "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 the 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 discordant and complex, 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."--Jacket Notes "Published in cooperation with the Charles River Conservancy." Map on lining papers Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-450) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject City and town life -- Massachusetts -- Charles River Valley -- History Landscapes -- Social aspects -- Massachusetts -- Charles River Valley -- History River engineering -- Massachusetts -- Charles River -- History City planning -- Massachusetts -- Boston Region -- History River engineering -- Massachusetts -- Charles River Valley -- History NATURE -- Natural Resources. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business. City and town life City planning Landscapes -- Social aspects River engineering SUBJECT Charles River (Mass.) -- History Charles River Valley (Mass.) -- History Boston Region (Mass.) -- History Subject Massachusetts -- Boston Region Massachusetts -- Charles River Massachusetts -- Charles River Valley Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780262274692 0262274698 0585490236 9780585490236

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