| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 333 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
[History of the Urban Environment] |
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History of the urban environment.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions PPiU
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University of Pittsburgh Digital Collections PPiU
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| Contents |
Introduction : Boston from peninsula to metropolis / Anthony N. Penna -- The drowning of Boston Harbor and the development of the shoreline / Peter S. Rosen and Duncan M. FitzGerald -- What lies beneath : science, nature, and the making of Boston Harbor / Michael Rawson -- Remaking Boston Harbor : cleaning up after ourselves / Steven M. Rudnick -- In search of the Shawmut Peninsula : using modern cartographic analysis to discover the "original" Boston shoreline / Stephen T. Mague -- Remaking Boston, remaking Massachusetts / Brian Donahue -- A city (only partly) on a hill : terrain and land use in pre-twentieth-century Boston / William B. Meyer -- Reforestation in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 1850-1910 / David Soll -- How metropolitan parks shaped greater Boston, 1893-1945 / James C. O'Connell -- Reclaiming the middle Charles River reservation / Daniel Driscoll and Karl Haglund -- Boston's weather and climate histories / William B. Meyer -- "Rain down righteousness" : interpretations of natural events in mid-eighteenth-century Boston / Lauri Bauer Coleman -- Biological responses to climate change in Boston / Abraham J. Miller-Rushing and Richard B. Primack |
| Analysis |
"Multi-User" |
| Notes |
Series title from Table of contents web page (JSTOR platform, viewed May 19, 2017) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-320) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR platform, viewed May 19, 2017) |
| Subject |
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Massachusetts -- Boston Region -- History
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Environmental degradation -- Massachusetts -- Boston Region -- History
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Environmental policy -- Massachusetts -- Boston Region -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Ecology
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Environmental degradation
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Environmental policy
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on
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| SUBJECT |
Boston Region (Mass.) -- Environmental conditions -- History
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| Subject |
Massachusetts -- Boston Region
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wright, Conrad Edick, editor
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Penna, Anthony N., editor.
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| LC no. |
2009029725 |
| ISBN |
9780822977681 |
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0822977680 |
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9780822963011 |
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0822963019 |
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