Streetcar suburbs : the process of growth in Boston, 1870-1900 /

Streetcar suburbs : the process of growth in Boston, 1870-1900 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Warner, Sam Bass, 1928- author.
Edition:	Second edition.
Imprint:	Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [1978] ©1978
Description:	1 online resource (xxvii, 208 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Joint Center for Urban Studies Joint Center for Urban Studies.
Subject:	Boston Suburban Area (Mass.) -- History. Massachusetts -- Boston Suburban Area. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11382093

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ISBN:	9780674044890 0674044894 9780674842137 0674842138 9780674842113 0674842111 0674842111 9780674842113
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Text in English. Print version record.
Summary:	Annotation In the last third of the nineteenth century the American city grew from a crowded merchant town, in which neatly everybody walked to work, to the modern divided metropolis. The street railway created this division of the metropolis into an inner city of commerce and slums and an outer city of commuters' suburbs. This book tells who built the new city, and why, and how.
Other form:	Print version: Warner, Sam Bass, 1928- Streetcar suburbs. 2nd ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©1978 0674842138 9780674842137
Standard no.:	9780674842113

Table of Contents:

Part 1. A City Divided
1. Who Built the Metropolis?
2. Common Ideas and Experiences
Part 2. The Large Institutions
3. The Walking City
4. The Street Railways
5. Other Services to Home Builders
6. Common Patterns of Decision
Part 3. The Three Towns
7. The Discipline of History and Geography
8. The Three Towns, 1870-1900
Part 4. A Selective Melting Pot
9. The Street Railway and Class Building Patterns
10. The 1900 Segregation
Part 5. Leave of Small Patterns
11. Central Dorchester
12. Tremont Street District
13. Roxbury Highlands
Part 6. Regulation without Laws
14. The Home Builders
15. The Grid Street and Frontage Lot
16. Suburban Architecture
Part 7. The Consequences
Appendix A. Local Historian's Guide to Social Statistics
Appendix B. Tables
Bibliographical Note
Notes
Index