STREETCAR SUBURBS - PROCESS GROWTH IN BOSTON, 1870-1900

Today both the past and the future weigh heavily upon the cities of America. The old disorders of the railroad, the mill, the department store, the tenement, and the cottage enmesh the new disorders of the superhighway, the industrial park, the shopping center, the apartment house, and the suburban development. It is the purpose of this book to analyze a period in the history of city building in the hope that the reader can gain some understanding of the nature and organization of the disorders that press upon him. If the city is ever to become susceptible to rational planning there must come to be a common understanding of how the city is built. This is a book which attempts to describe city building by combining the fragments of local history.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Also published in paperback since 1969 by Antheneum $2.95. This book was originaly published by Harvard University Press and the M.I.T. Press, jointly.
• Corporate Authors:

  Harvard University Press

  79 Garden Street
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02138
• Authors:
  • Warner Jr, S B
• Publication Date: 1962

Media Info

• Pagination: 208 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Land use; Rapid transit; Streetcars; Suburbs; Urban growth
• Uncontrolled Terms: Streetcar suburbs
• Geographic Terms: Boston (Massachusetts)
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00046717
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Book
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 10 1974 12:00AM