Author: Massachusetts. Public Service CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
First report includes the 45th Annual report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners.
First Annual Report of the Public Service Commission
Author: Massachusetts. Public Service CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
First report includes the 45th Annual report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners.
First-Fourth Annual Report of the Commission on Waterways and Public Lands
Author: Massachusetts. Commission on Waterways and Public LandsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Annual Report of the Commission on Waterways and Public Lands
Author: Massachusetts. Commission on Waterways and Public LandsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The first annual report covers the period from Aug. 3 to Nov. 30, 1916, and includes the doings of the Directors of the port of Boston and of the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners from Dec. 1, 1915 to Aug. 3, 1916, to whose powers and duties the Commission succeeded under the provisions of chapter 288 of the General acts of 1916. cf. First annual report, 1916, p. [3]
Annual Report
Author: Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Annual Report ...
Author: Massachusetts. Commission on Waterways and Public LandsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston Harbor (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Annual Report
Author: Massachusetts. Commission on Economy and EfficiencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Document
Author: Boston (Mass.)Documents of the City of Boston
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1462
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.