| Boston: A Topographical History, Third Edition, Enlarged Contributor(s): Whitehill, Walter Muir (Author), Kennedy, Lawrence W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674002679 ISBN-13: 9780674002678 Publisher: Belknap Press OUR PRICE: $90.09 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2000 Annotation: 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Historic Preservation - General - Architecture | Urban & Land Use Planning - History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) |
| Dewey: 974.461 |
| LCCN: 99086597 |
| Physical Information: 1.35" H x 6.5" W x 9.5" (2.02 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Cultural Region - New England |
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Contributor Bio(s): Kennedy, Lawrence W.: - Lawrence W. Kennedy is Professor of History at the University of Scranton and author of Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston since 1630.Whitehill, Walter Muir: - The late Walter Muir Whitehill was Director of the Boston Athenĉum. |