Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston

摘要: Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in park, hopping train for the suburbs: some aspects city life are so familiar that we don't think twice about them. But such simple actions structured by complex relationships with our natural world. The contours these - social, cultural, political, economic, and legal were established during America's first great period urbanization nineteenth century, Boston, one earliest cities America, often led nation designing A richly textured cultural social history development nineteenth-century this book provides new environmental perspective on creation cities. "Eden Charles" explores how Bostonians: channeled country lakes through miles pipeline to provide clean water; dredged ocean deepen harbor; filled tidal flats covered peninsula houses, shops, factories; and, created metropolitan system parks greenways, facilitating conversion fields into suburbs. This shows how, different class ethnic groups brought rival ideas nature competing visions 'city upon hill' process forced conform their goals realities Boston's distinctive setting. outcomes battles control over city's ultimately recorded very fabric Boston itself. In history, find seeds better or worse have defined urban America day.