Streetcar Suburbs : : The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870–1900, Second Edition / / Sam Bass Warner Jr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Warner Jr., Sam Bass,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [1978]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 1978
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- I A CITY DIVIDED Who Built the Metropolis? Common Ideas and Experiences -- II THE LARGE INSTITUTIONS The Walking City The Street Railways Other Services to Home Builders Common Patterns of Decision -- III THE THREE TOWNS The Discipline if History and Geography The Three Towns, 1870-1900 -- IV A SELECTIVE MELTING POT The Street Railway and Class Building Patterns The 1900 Segregation -- V THE WEAVE OF SMALL PATTERNS Central Dorchester Tremont Street District Roxbury Highlands -- VI REGULATION WITHOUT LAWS The Home Builders The Grid Street and Frontage Lot Suburban Architecture -- VII THE CONSEQUENCES -- APPENDIX A A LOCAL HISTORIAN'S GUIDE TO SOCIAL STATISTICS -- APPENDIX B TABLES -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- NOTES -- INDEX