[PDF.27nj] Inventing the Charles River (MIT Press)

Inventing the Charles River (MIT Press)

[PDF.hl67] Inventing the Charles River (MIT Press)

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 | #670979 in Books |  2002-09-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x1.50 x10.00l,4.79 | File type: PDF | 512 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| This, and the several similar volumes*, are essential --|By JNagarya|to those researching Massachusetts-Bay Colony, and its legal history, as means to visualize and make concrete the extensive changes to what was originally a three-hilled (thus the name "Trimount," ultimately spelled "Tremont" Street) peninsula bare of construction.
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*"Mapping Boston" (Camb| ||In an era when human incursion into the landscape invites trepidation, Karl Haglund's thorough and intriguing Inventing the Charles River arrives to remind us that heroic construction can, in fact, ameliorate it. Haglund's timely and engaging tale of

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...

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