Inventing the Charles River

Name: Inventing the Charles River
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ISBN: 9780262083072

ISBN-10: 0262083078

ISBN-13: 9780262083072

Edition: 2002

Authors: Karl Haglund, Renata Von Tscharner

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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. The new esplanades along the river changed the way Bostonians perceived their city; and the basin, with its expansive views of Boston and Cambridge, became an iconic image of the metropolis. The book focuses on the precarious…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 11/22/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 515
Size: 9.31" wide x 10.38" long x 1.53" tall
Weight: 5.082
Language: English

Karl Haglund is project manager for the New Charles River Basin at the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Earth Work



The Science of City Building



A Water Park



The Emerald Metropolis



Damming the Basin



The Colleges and the Esplanades



Highways and Park Ways



The Lost Half Mile



The Big Dig



Crossing the Charles



Urban Visions and the Future of the River



Views from the River


About the Charles River Conservancy


Notes


Glossary and Gazetteer


A Chronology of the Charles River Basin


Illustration Credits


Index