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Title: Mapping Boston by Alex Krieger, David Cobb, Amy Turner ISBN: 0-262-61173-2 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Read, look, enjoy
Comment: It has rarely been my experience that a picture is worth a thousand words -- the best pictures often elicit no words at all. Maps, however, are different -- these, when well done, I would gladly substitute for the best prose. And those in Mapping Boston are absolutely superb, giving greater clarity to a wide range of topics than words ever could.
Boston, of all cities, must give historical cartographers fits -- the city's boundaries have changed so greatly over time as to render historical comparison a great challenge. But Mapping Boston succeeds wonderfully in helping the reader to understand the city's gradual evolution from peninsula to metropolis. The growth of the city, the changes in population and land utilization, Boston's shifting ethnic and economic face are all elucidated colorfully and clearly. The bottom line is that the lover of Boston history will revel in this volume; indeed, I expect most every resident of the area will derive considerable pleasure from it.
For those who do, I would also recommend Diana Muir's Reflections in Bullough's Pond, which does for the region around Boston what Mapping Boston does for the city itself: places it in context, gives it color, brings it to life.
Rating: 5
Summary: Must have!
Comment: This book beautifully portray's Boston's physical past, present and future through maps and photographs. The book does an excellent job showing how streets and shorelines through the years match to the present topography (a huge interest of mine when exploring the city). This book is for you if you love history and maps of Boston and New England. VERY WELL DONE!
Rating: 5
Summary: Exceptional
Comment: Collects in one place excellent plates of all the great historical maps of Boston, as well as some rarities. Ranks up there as one of the necessities for anyone with a passion for Boston's topographical history.
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Title: Inventing the Charles River by Karl Haglund ISBN: 0262083078 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 16 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston by Nancy S. Seasholes ISBN: 0262194945 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Lost Boston by Jane Holtz Kay ISBN: 0395966108 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Boston: A Topographical History, Third Enlarged Edition by Walter Muir Whitehill, Lawrence W. Kennedy ISBN: 0674002687 Publisher: Belknap Press Pub. Date: 05 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Cityscapes of Boston by Robert Campbell, Peter Vanderwarker ISBN: 0395700655 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 15 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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