Mapping Boston

Name: Mapping Boston
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ISBN: 9780262611732

ISBN-10: 0262611732

ISBN-13: 9780262611732

Edition: 2001 (Reprint)

Authors: Alex Krieger, David Cobb, Amy Turner, Norman B. Leventhal

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To the attentive user even the simplest map can reveal not only where things are but how people perceive and imagine the spaces they occupy. Mapping Bostonis an exemplar of such creative attentiveness--bringing the history of one of America's oldest and most beautiful cities alive through the maps that have depicted it over the centuries. The book includes both historical maps of the city and maps showing the gradual emergence of the New England region from the imaginations of explorers to a form that we would recognize today. Each map is accompanied by a full description and by a short essay offering an insight into its context. The topics of these essays by Anne Mackin include people…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/24/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 11.63" wide x 11.94" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 3.740
Language: English

Alex Krieger is Chairman of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a principal of Chan Krieger & Associates.

Amy Turner is a Boston-based architect.



Foreword



Introduction: Revealing a City/Exploring Its Maps




Shaping Boston



A Brief History of Boston




Diagramming the Growth of Boston




Mapping New England: A Region and City Come into Focus



The Mapping of New England before 1800




The Boston Map Trade of the Eighteenth Century




Windows to Our Past: Mapping in the Nineteenth Century and Beyond




The New England Plates



The City of Boston Takes Form and Transforms



Gaining Ground: Boston's Topographical Development in Maps




Experiencing Boston: Encounters with the Places on the Maps




The Boston Plates



Epilogue



Map of Good Hope: Boston in the American Imagination




Appendix


Timeline of Boston's Land Making


A Boston Chronology


A Glossary of Map Terms


For Further Reading


An Index of the Maps Illustrated


About the Contributing Authors


Illustration Credits


Index