Author: Massachusetts. Joint Board Upon the Improvement of Charles RiverPublisher:
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Category : Charles River (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Report of the Joint Board, Consisting of the Metropolitan Park Commission and the State Board of Health
Author: Massachusetts. Joint Board Upon the Improvement of Charles RiverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charles River (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners
Author: Massachusetts. Metropolitan Park CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Landscape architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Inventing the Charles River
Author: Karl HaglundPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262083078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
An illustrated account of the creation of the Charles River Basin, focusing on the precarious balance between transportation planning and the stewardship of the public realm. The Charles River Basin, extending nine miles upstream from the harbor, has been called Boston's "Central Park." Yet few realize that this apparently natural landscape is a totally fabricated public space. 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 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 complex and disputatious, 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.
Final Report of the Joint Board of Metropolitan Improvements, Pursuant to Chapter 113 of the Resolves of 1909 and Chapters 112 and 134 of the Resolves of 1910
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Boston Suburban Area (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners
Author: Massachusetts. Board of Railroad CommissionersPublisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
American Garden Literature in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection (1785-1900)
Author: Joachim Wolschke-BulmahnPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022534
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
An annotated listing of titles held at the Garden Library at Dumbarton Oaks, with an introduction discussing the evolution of American garden culture and landscape architecture in the course of the 19th century. Includes a chronological list of titles as well as an index and a good selection of bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Annual Reports of Officers, Boards and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia
Author: VirginiaReport of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners
Author: Massachusetts. Metropolitan Park CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Parks
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Report
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Report of the Committee on Charles River Dam
Author: Massachusetts. Committee on Charles River DamPublisher:
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Category : Charles River Dam (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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