Streetcar Suburbs The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900, Second Edition

Name: Streetcar Suburbs The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900, Second Edition
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ISBN: 9780674842113

ISBN-10: 0674842111

ISBN-13: 9780674842113

Edition: 2nd 1978

Authors: Sam Bass Warner, Sam Bass Warner

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In the last third of the nineteenth century the American city grew from a crowded merchant town, in which neatly everybody walked to work, to the modern divided metropolis. The street railway created this division of the metropolis into an inner city of commerce and slums and an outer city of commuters' suburbs. This book tells who built the new city, and why, and how.

Book details

List price: $37.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1978
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1978
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Sam Bass Warner, noted urban historian and Visiting Professor of Urban History at MIT, is theauthor of The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City and other books.




A City Divided



Who Built the Metropolis?



Common Ideas and Experiences



The Large Institutions



The Walking City



The Street Railways



Other Services to Home Builders



Common Patterns of Decision



The Three Towns



The Discipline of History and Geography



The Three Towns, 1870-1900



A Selective Melting Pot



The Street Railway and Class Building Patterns



The 1900 Segregation



Leave of Small Patterns



Central Dorchester



Tremont Street District



Roxbury Highlands



Regulation Without Laws



The Home Builders



The Grid Street and Frontage Lot



Suburban Architecture



The Consequences



Local Historian's Guide to Social Statistics



Tables


Bibliographical Note


Notes


Index