Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston

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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 wildlife. The contours of these relationships social, cultural, political, economic, and legal were established right through The us s first great period of urbanization in the nineteenth century, and Boston, probably the most earliest cities in The us, ceaselessly 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 standpoint at the creation of The us s first cities. Eden at the Charles 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 keep watch over over the city s development were in the end 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 The us to at the present time.

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