The Hub's metropolis : greater Boston's development from railroad suburbs to smart growth / James C. O'Connell.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
MIT Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Metropolitan Boston's layers of development
- Prelude to suburbia: traditional village centers and proto-suburbs (1800-1860)
- Country retreats (1820-1920)
- Railroad suburbs (1840-1920)
- Streetcar suburbs (1870-1930)
- Metropolitan parkway suburbs (1895-1945)
- Suburban mill towns (1820-2012)
- Postwar automobile suburbs (1945-1970)
- Boston redefines the center city (1945-2012)
- Interstates, exurbs, and sprawl (1970-2012)
- The smart growth era (1990-2012)
- Postscript: the coming era
- Exploring the metropolitan landscape: recommended sites by community.