Boston’s “Changeful Times”: Origins of Preservation and Planning in America (Creating the North American Landscape)

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In the mid-nineteenth century, American cities underwent intense physical change at a pace seldom seen before or since. In Boston, reform-minded citizens tallied the costs of unrestrained change and searched for how you can keep watch over growth and create a sense of stability in their city. Their preservationist efforts helped to pioneer new approaches to planning and real estate development that finally spread from Boston and other key cities to the remainder of the nation.

Boston’s “Changeful Times” chronicles the relationship between historic preservation, planning, and the desire for permanence in Boston all through the years from 1860 to 1930. Michael Holleran concludes that the tools invented for stopping change proved even more powerful for shaping change. New York City drew on Boston’s experience to create the first comprehensive zoning ordinance which, by the end of the 1920s, had fundamentally altered the city-building process. As preservationists, environmentalists, and planners lately discover common ground, says Holleran, they’re in effect rediscovering the shared origins of their separate movements. This engaging history of preservation, real estate development, city planning, and Boston’s urban development will appeal to readers curious to be informed more about how and why The united states’s cities came to look the way in which they do.


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