An edition of Boston's Back Bay (2006)

Boston's Back Bay

the story of America's greatest nineteenth-century landfill project

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An edition of Boston's Back Bay (2006)

Boston's Back Bay

the story of America's greatest nineteenth-century landfill project

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Northeastern University Press, University Press of New England
Language
English
Pages
228

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Subjects
Sanitary landfills, History, Land reclamation & drainage, Local history, c 1800 to c 1900, Social Science, History - U.S., Sociology, Massachusetts, United States - State & Local - New England, Social Science / Sociology / Urban, Sociology - Urban, United States - General, United States - Northeast - New England (General), Boston (mass.), history, Fills (earthwork), Protected DAISY
Places
Boston, Massachusetts, Back Bay (Boston, Mass.)
Times
19th century
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Cover of: Boston's Back Bay
Boston's Back Bay: The Story of America's Greatest Nineteenth-Century Landfill Project
August 31, 2007, Northeastern
Paperback in English
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Cover of: Boston's Back Bay
Boston's Back Bay: the story of America's greatest nineteenth-century landfill project
2006, Northeastern University Press, University Press of New England
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Boston's Back Bay
Boston's Back Bay: The Story of America's Greatest Nineteenth-Century Landfill Project
March 24, 2006, Northeastern University Press
Hardcover in English
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Table of Contents

Prehistory of the Back Bay
Why fill the Back Bay?
Planning and financing the Back Bay Landfill
Locomotives and steam shovels
Gravel trains and bold entrepreneurs
A shocking development fails to derail the project
Environmental problems and zoning.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Boston, Hanover

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Dewey Decimal Class
627/.5490974461
Library of Congress
TD795.7 .N545 2006,

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 228 p. :
Number of pages
228

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OL24928803M
Internet Archive
bostonsbackbayst00newm
ISBN 10
1555536514, 1555536808
ISBN 13
9781555536510, 9781555536800
LCCN
2005035371
OCLC/WorldCat
62755485

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