Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900, Second Edition / Edition 2

by Sam Bass Warner Jr.

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674842113
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1978
Series:	Joint Center for Urban Studies
Edition description:	2nd Edition
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Sam Bass Warner, Jr., is Visiting Professor of Urban History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Table of Contents

PART 1: A CITY DIVIDED

1. Who Built the Metropolis?

2. Common Ideas and Experiences

PART 2: THE LARGE INSTITUTIONS

3. The Walking City

4. The Street Railways

5. Other Services to Home Builders

6. Common Patterns of Decision

PART 3: THE THREE TOWNS

7. The Discipline of History and Geography

8. The Three Towns, 1870-1900

PART 4: A SELECTIVE MELTING POT

9. The Street Railway and Class Building Patterns

10. The 1900 Segregation

PART 5: LEAVE OF SMALL PATTERNS

11. Central Dorchester

12. Tremont Street District

13. Roxbury Highlands

PART 6: REGULATION WITHOUT LAWS

14. The Home Builders

15. The Grid Street and Frontage Lot

16. Suburban Architecture

PART 7: THE CONSEQUENCES

Appendix: A Local Historian's Guide to Social Statistics

Appendix B: Tables

Bibliographical Note

Notes

Index

Editorial Reviews

With almost tender attention to detail and judicious selection of maps, charts, and especially photographs, Mr. Warner marks himself a ‘Boston-lover’ …This volume helps to unfold further the layers of complexities that conceal in obscurity the development of the modern city… A masterly introduction to the subject.

American Historical Review

Mr. Warner has given us a fine book, a lovely book, about the historic pattern of the housebuilding process in the suburbs… He has put to brilliant use the research resources he was able to find and evaluate. And, by means of his legwork and photography, he has added a nearly three-dimensional quality to his book.

Journal of the American Institute of Planners