Author: Massachusetts. Metropolitan District Water Supply CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Special Report of the Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission and the Department of Public Health Relative to Improvements in Distribution and to Adequate Prevention of Pollution of Sources of Water Supply of the Metropolitan Water District
Author: Massachusetts. Metropolitan District Water Supply CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Journal
Author: Massachusetts. General Court. House of RepresentativesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
Book Description
Reports and Documents
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Report of the Committee Appointed by the Commission to Supervise the Investigation of Chain Broadcasting...June 12, 1940
Author: United States. Chain Broadcasting, Committee to Supervise the Investigation ofPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Report
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2172
Book Description
Remaking Boston
Author: Anthony N. PennaPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822977680
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Since its settlement in 1630, Boston, its harbor, and outlying regions have witnessed a monumental transformation at the hands of humans and by nature. Remaking Boston chronicles many of the events that altered the physical landscape of Boston, while also offering multidisciplinary perspectives on the environmental history of one of America's oldest and largest metropolitan areas. Situated on an isthmus, and blessed with a natural deepwater harbor and ocean access, Boston became an important early trade hub with Europe and the world. As its population and economy grew, developers extended the city's shoreline into the surrounding tidal mudflats to create more useable land. Further expansion of the city was achieved through the annexation of surrounding communities, and the burgeoning population and economy spread to outlying areas. The interconnection of city and suburb opened the floodgates to increased commerce, services and workforces, while also leaving a wake of roads, rails, bridges, buildings, deforestation, and pollution. Profiling this ever-changing environment, the contributors tackle a variety of topics, including: the glacial formation of the region; physical characteristics and composition of the land and harbor; dredging, sea walling, flattening, and landfill operations in the reshaping of the Shawmut Peninsula; the longstanding controversy over the link between landfills and shoaling in shipping channels; population movements between the city and suburbs and their environmental implications; interdependence of the city and its suburbs; preservation and reclamation of the Charles River; suburban deforestation and later reforestation as byproducts of changing land use; the planned outlay of parks and parkways; and historic climate changes and the human and biological adaptations to them.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Public Works
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1472
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Appropriations
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 1676
Book Description
Water Resources of New England
Author: New England Regional Planning CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of ColumbiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1606
Book Description