Author: Massachusetts. Committee on Charles River DamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charles River Dam (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Evidence and Arguments Before the Committee on Charles River Dam Appointed Under Resolves of 1901, Chapter 105
Author: Massachusetts. Committee on Charles River DamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charles River Dam (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Evidence and Arguments Before the Committee on Charles River Dam Appointed Under Resolves of 1901, Chapter 105
Author: Massachusetts. Committee on Charles River DamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charles River Dam
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Gaining Ground
Author: Nancy S. SeasholesPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262350211
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Why and how Boston was transformed by landmaking. Fully one-sixth of Boston is built on made land. Although other waterfront cities also have substantial areas that are built on fill, Boston probably has more than any city in North America. In Gaining Ground historian Nancy Seasholes has given us the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created.The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent settlement to the present. Seasholes introduces findings from recent archaeological investigations in Boston, and relates landmaking to the major historical developments that shaped it. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, landmaking in Boston was spurred by the rapid growth that resulted from the burgeoning China trade. The influx of Irish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century prompted several large projects to create residential land—not for the Irish, but to keep the taxpaying Yankees from fleeing to the suburbs. Many landmaking projects were undertaken to cover tidal flats that had been polluted by raw sewage discharged directly onto them, removing the "pestilential exhalations" thought to cause illness. Land was also added for port developments, public parks, and transportation facilities, including the largest landmaking project of all, the airport. A separate chapter discusses the technology of landmaking in Boston, explaining the basic method used to make land and the changes in its various components over time. The book is copiously illustrated with maps that show the original shoreline in relation to today's streets, details from historical maps that trace the progress of landmaking, and historical drawings and photographs.
Report of the Committee on Charles River Dam
Author: Massachusetts. Committee on Charles River DamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charles River Dam (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
The Boston Metropolitan District
Author: Caroline ShillaberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Journal of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section, American Society of Civil Engineers
Author: American Society of Civil Engineers. Boston Society of Civil Engineers SectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Report of the Committee on Charles River Dam: Appointed Under Resolves of 1901, Chapter 105, to Consider the Advisability and Feasibility of Building
Author: Massachusetts Committee on Charles RivePublisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781377302386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
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Old-time New England
Author: Journal of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers
Author: Boston Society of Civil EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
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