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Boston: A Topographical History, Third Enlarged Edition
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by Walter Muir Whitehill and Lawrence W. Kennedy
Sales Rank: 294168
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 432 pages
Published by: Belknap PressEdition: 3rd Edition May 5, 2000
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0674002687
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0674002685
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 1.6 pounds
Product Review
Boston Globe : There have been many books written about Boston, but none with more information so charmingly and accurately written[There are] riches packed between the hard covers of this book, excellently conceived and excellently created.
H-Net Reviews : The third edition to Boston: A Topographical History appears forty years after Walter Muir Whitehill's original text, brought up-to-date by Lawrence Kennedy. The underlying theme of the book remains remarkably importantThere is a truly impressive feat here. Kennedy and Whitehill have documented incredible physical changes over nearly four hundred years. The book is wonderfully illustratedwell-researched and accessible. It not only provides an overarching narrative of the History of the city of Boston, it shows how cities in general adapt, alter, and preserve their surroundings.
--Michael Mazzano
Boston Globe Magazine : "[Boston: A Topographical History] is a lively History of the city from its founding up through the mid-1960s, the age of the so-called New Boston. Whitehill clarifies such mysteries as the name Tremont, which refers to the three hills--Pemberton, Beacon, and Mount Vernon--that once stood where the now much-reduced Beacon Hill remains. With this book, graced with useful old maps and engravings, you can understand that Canal Street followed the bank of Mill Creek, Causeway Street was once a causeway across the old mill pond, and West Hill Place (near Charles Circle) was once a small hill by the Back Bay.
--David Mehegan
Times Literary Supplement : Short, living, and admirably illustratedWhat we have is a most learned and entertaining guide to the past and present of Boston.
New York Historical Society Quarterly : Over the years Boston has played an important role in American History and consequently a topographical History of the city is of more than local interestIn an informed and witty manner, [Whitehill] traces the History of Boston by means of the physical and resultant social changes which have affected the city[this History has been] delightfullytold in this attractive book.
--James J. Heslin
New England Quarterly : A good companion, pleasingly written, informative and entertaining, and copiously illustrated.
--Nicholas B. Wainwright
Progressive Architecture : Whitehill's scholarship is both profound and far-reachingIn short, this is an admirable contribution to the growing literature of American urbanism.
--Leonard K. Eaton
Book Description
This urbane and delightful book covering more than 300 years of the course of Boston's History has now been enlarged with an account of the city's new urban design, architecture, and historic preservation and is richly illustrated with 32 additional photographs and drawings. In the last three decades momentous changes have visited this colonial city made modern. Lawrence Kennedy portrays the Boston that preserved much of the intimacy of the remembered place while creating a dramatic new skyline. Boston has been remarkably transformed while keeping human the features of a beloved city.
Reader Reviews
This is very good book about the City of Boston, as it was developed in stages. The Book explains the development and expansion of the city in time and according to location. It is very vivid and especially if you have been a pedestrian offen on the streets of Boston, It starts to make sense and starts to give joy. As I read the book I started to appreciate more and more the efforts of BRA and Back Bay Society.unfortunately before they acted quite a number of beautiful structures has gone.Book has very extensive history from 1700 to 1970's and than it is summary or may be it is a living history for you. There are numerous pictures but the number of pictures is not as much as those you may find in other types of books, like Boston in Pictures, etc. After all it is a narrative book but there is sufficient amount of pictures to help you visulize. I wish a more comprehensive book were to be produces to show in same pages all the developments, similar to "Boston, Than and Now" but with more older pictures and more story as this book has. Read this book and sit across the Charles on Cambridge Side than you start to see Trimont, Mill Dam, Neck. It is great book.
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