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This 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. In the last three decades momentous changes have visited this colonial city made modern. Lawrence W. 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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Editorial Reviews

Boston Globe
There have been many books written about Boston, but none with more information so charmingly and accurately written...[There are] riches packed between the hard covers of this book, excellently conceived and excellently created.
H-Net Reviews - Michael Mazzano
The third edition to Boston: A Topographical History appears forty years after Walter Muir Whitehill's original text, brought up-to-date by Lawrence Kennedy. The underlying theme of the book remains remarkably important...There is a truly impressive feat here. Kennedy and Whitehill have documented incredible physical changes over nearly four hundred years. The book is wonderfully illustrated...well-researched and accessible. It not only provides an overarching narrative of the history of the city of Boston, it shows how cities in general adapt, alter, and preserve their surroundings.
Boston Globe Magazine - David Mehegan
"[Boston: A Topographical History] is a lively history of the city from its founding up through the mid-1960s, the age of the so-called New Boston. Whitehill clarifies such mysteries as the name Tremont, which refers to the three hills--Pemberton, Beacon, and Mount Vernon--that once stood where the now much-reduced Beacon Hill remains. With this book, graced with useful old maps and engravings, you can understand that Canal Street followed the bank of Mill Creek, Causeway Street was once a causeway across the old mill pond, and West Hill Place (near Charles Circle) was once a small hill by the Back Bay.
Times Literary Supplement
Short, living, and admirably illustrated...What we have is a most learned and entertaining guide to the past and present of Boston.
New York Historical Society Quarterly - James J. Heslin
Over the years Boston has played an important role in American history and consequently a topographical history of the city is of more than local interest...In an informed and witty manner, [Whitehill] traces the history of Boston by means of the physical and resultant social changes which have affected the city...[this history has been] delightfully...told in this attractive book.
New England Quarterly - Nicholas B. Wainwright
A good companion, pleasingly written, informative and entertaining, and copiously illustrated.
Progressive Architecture - Leonard K. Eaton
Whitehill's scholarship is both profound and far-reaching...In short, this is an admirable contribution to the growing literature of American urbanism.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780674079502
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publication date: 1/28/1968
  • Edition description: REVISED
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 340

Meet the Author

The late Walter Muir Whitehill was the Director of the Boston Athenaeum.

Lawrence W. Kennedy is Professor of History at the University of Scranton and author of Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston since 1630.

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Table of Contents

I "Fittest for such as can trade into England" 1
II The Eighteenth Century 22
III The Boston of Bulfinch 47
IV Cutting Down the Hills to Fill the Coves 73
V Railroads and Immigrants 95
VI The Flight from the South End 119
VII The Filling of the Back Bay 141
VIII The Westward Movement 174
IX A Decade of Renewal 200
X A Beacon Once More 240
XI Toward the New Millennium 273
Appendix 313
Notes 321
Index 365
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