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03154aam a2200361 a 4500 001 D86E80A6C59D11E188F7F9E06AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120704010152 008 100302s2010 mauab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2010007038 020 $a 0674048415 (alk. paper) 020 $a 9780674048416 (alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)550550864 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d YDXCP $d UKM $d CDX $d BWX $d NSB $d WIH $d UKMGB $d MIX $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ma 050 00 $a F73.44 $b .R39 2010 050 00 $a F73.44 $b .R39 2010 100 1 $a Rawson, Michael. 245 1 $a Eden on the Charles : $b the making of Boston / $c Michael Rawson. 260 $a Cambridge, Mass. : $b Harvard University Press, $c c2010. 300 $a xii, 367 p. : $b ill., maps ; $c 22 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prologue: To build a city -- Enclosing the Common -- Constructing water -- Inventing the suburbs -- Making the harbor -- Recreating the wilderness -- Epilogue: The city complete -- Note on Boston Common petitions. 520 $a Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don't think twice about them. But such simple actions are structured by complex relationships with our natural world. The contours of these relationships,social, cultural, political, economic, and legal, were established during America's first great period of urbanization in the nineteenth century, and Boston, one of the earliest cities in America, often led the nation in designing them. A richly textured cultural and social history of the development of nineteenth century Boston, this book provides a new environmental perspective on the creation of America's first cities. It explores how Bostonians channeled country lakes through miles of pipeline to provide clean water; dredged the ocean to deepen the harbor; filled tidal flats and covered the peninsula with houses, shops, and factories; and created a metropolitan system of parks and greenways, facilitating the conversion of fields into suburbs. The book shows how, in Boston, different class and ethnic groups brought rival ideas of nature and competing visions of a "city upon a hill" to the process of urbanization, and were forced to conform their goals to the realities of Boston's distinctive natural setting. The outcomes of their battles for control over the city's development were ultimately recorded in the very fabric of Boston itself. In Boston's history, we find the seeds of the environmental relationships that, for better or worse, have defined urban America to this day. 651 0 $a Boston (Mass.) $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a Boston (Mass.) $x Social conditions $y 19th century. 651 0 $a Boston (Mass.) $x Environmental conditions. 650 0 $a City planning $z Boston $z Boston $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Human ecology $z Boston $z Boston $x History $y 19th century. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220802015642.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20120704011749.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D86E80A6C59D11E188F7F9E06AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search