Boston : a topographical history / Walter Muir Whitehill and Lawrence W. Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitehill, Walter Muir, 1905-1978.

Contributor:

Kennedy, Lawrence W., 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historic buildings--Massachusetts--Boston.

Historic buildings.

Architecture.

History.

Massachusetts--Boston.

Architecture--Massachusetts--Boston--History.

Boston (Mass.)--History.

Boston (Mass.).

Boston (Mass.)--Description and travel.

Boston (Mass.)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Physical Description:

xlix, 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

Third edition, enlarged.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-363) and index.

ISBN:

0674002679

0674002687

OCLC:

43114244