Boston: A Topographical History, Third Enlarged Edition
Walter Muir Whitehill, Lawrence W. Kennedy
ISBN 10: 0674002687 ISBN 13: 9780674002685
Published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2000
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Synopsis:
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.
About the Authors:
The late Walter Muir Whitehill was Director of the Boston Athenæum.
Lawrence W. Kennedy is Professor of History at the University of Scranton and author of Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston since 1630.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Boston: A Topographical History, Third ...
Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 3rd Edition