Remaking Boston : an environmental history of the city and its surroundings ; [developed out of a conference in May 2006 at the Massachusetts Historical Society ; Conference "Remaking Boston: The City and Environmental Change over the Years"]

Remaking Boston an environmental history of the city and its surroundings ; [developed out of a conference in May 2006 at the Massachusetts Historical Society ; Conference "Remaking Boston: The City and Environmental Change over the Years"]

Introduction : Boston from peninsula to metropolis / Anthony N. Penna -- The drowning of Boston Harbor and the development of the shoreline / Peter S. Rosen and Duncan M. FitzGerald -- What lies beneath : science, nature, and the making of Boston Harbor / Michael Rawson -- Remaking Boston Harbor : c...

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Körperschaft: Massachusetts Historical Society (BerichterstatterIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Penna, Anthony N. (BerichterstatterIn), Wright, Conrad Edick (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Pittsburgh, Pa. Univ. of Pittsburgh Press 2009
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Environmental policy > History > Environmental degradation > Nature > Effect of human beings on > Boston Region (Mass.) > Environmental conditions > Konferenzschrift > Boston, Mass.
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction : Boston from peninsula to metropolis / Anthony N. Penna -- The drowning of Boston Harbor and the development of the shoreline / Peter S. Rosen and Duncan M. FitzGerald -- What lies beneath : science, nature, and the making of Boston Harbor / Michael Rawson -- Remaking Boston Harbor : cleaning up after ourselves / Steven M. Rudnick -- In search of the Shawmut Peninsula : using modern cartographic analysis to discover the "original" Boston shoreline / Stephen T. Mague -- Remaking Boston, remaking Massachusetts / Brian Donahue -- A city (only partly) on a hill : terrain and land use in pre-twentieth-century Boston / William B. Meyer -- Reforestation in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 1850-1910 / David Soll -- How metropolitan parks shaped greater Boston, 1893-1945 / James C. O'Connell -- Reclaiming the middle Charles River reservation / Daniel Driscoll and Karl Haglund -- Boston's weather and climate histories / William B. Meyer -- "Rain down righteousness" : interpretations of natural events in mid-eighteenth-century Boston / Lauri Bauer Coleman -- Biological responses to climate change in Boston / Abraham J. Miller-Rushing and Richard B. Primack
Beschreibung:VII, 333 S.
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
25 cm
ISBN:0822943816
0-8229-4381-6
9780822943815
978-0-8229-4381-5