Author: Massachusetts. Committee on Charles River DamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charles River Dam (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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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
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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Report of the Committee on Charles River Dam
Author: UNKNOWN. AUTHORPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781332066834
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Excerpt from Report of the Committee on Charles River Dam: Appointed Under Resolves of 1901, Chapter 105; To Consider the Advisability and Feasibility of Building a Dam Across the Charles River at or Near Craigie Bridge A dam with surface and drawbridge at grade' 22, Boston base, will result in frequent interruption of street traffic over the dam, owing to the necessity of opening the draw for all vessels requiring more than 12 feet head room. On this account, with a view to less frequent obstruction of the highway, the chief engineer of the committee recommends a high dam, with a surface and drawbridge at grade Boston base, which would allow the passage of tugs and mastless vessels without opening the draw. Studies for such a dam, both of solid masonry and with a steel viaduct, have been prepared, though it is probable that the former is pref crable, as the cost of maintenance of a steel structure would offset the decreased expense of construction. These later studies have resulted in some modification of the figures given on pages 12, 31 and 32 of the report of this committee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Report of the Committee on Charles River Dam, Appointed Under Resolves of 1901, Chapter 105, to Consider the Advisability and Feasibility of Building a Dam Across the Charles River at Or Near Craigie Bridge
Author: Massachusetts. Committee on Charles River damPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charles River Dam (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
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.
Eden on the Charles
Author: Michael RawsonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674266579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don’t think twice about them. But such simple actions are structured by complex relationships with our natural world. The contours of these relationships—social, cultural, political, economic, and legal—were established during America’s first great period of urbanization in the nineteenth century, and Boston, one of the earliest cities in America, often led the nation in designing them. A richly textured cultural and social history of the development of nineteenth-century Boston, this book provides a new environmental perspective on the creation of America’s first cities. Eden on the Charles explores how Bostonians channeled country lakes through miles of pipeline to provide clean water; dredged the ocean to deepen the harbor; filled tidal flats and covered the peninsula with houses, shops, and factories; and created a metropolitan system of parks and greenways, facilitating the conversion of fields into suburbs. The book shows how, in Boston, different class and ethnic groups brought rival ideas of nature and competing visions of a “city upon a hill” to the process of urbanization—and were forced to conform their goals to the realities of Boston’s distinctive natural setting. The outcomes of their battles for control over the city’s development were ultimately recorded in the very fabric of Boston itself. In Boston’s history, we find the seeds of the environmental relationships that—for better or worse—have defined urban America to this day.
Reports of Proceedings ...
Author: Reports of Proceedings ...
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Private and Special Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Author: MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Private
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description
The Boston Metropolitan District
Author: Caroline ShillaberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description