Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900, Second Edition

Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900, Second Edition
ISBN-10
0674044894
ISBN-13
9780674044890
Category
History
Pages
236
Language
English
Published
2009-06-30
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Sam Bass Warner

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.

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