Description
In the last third of the nineteenth century Boston grew from a crowded merchant town, in which nearly 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. Streetcar Suburbs tells who built the new city, and why, and how.
Included here is a new Introduction that considers the present suburb/city dichotomy and suggests what we can learn from it to assure a livable city of the future.Author: Sam B. Warner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 04/20/2004
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.42h x 6.14w x 0.61d
ISBN13: 9780674842113
ISBN10: 0674842111
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban
- History | General