TY - BOOK ID - 77900475 TI - Inventing the Charles River AU - Haglund, Karl. AU - Chandler, Alfred D. PY - 2003 SN - 0262274698 0585490236 9780262274692 9780585490236 0262083078 9780262083072 PB - Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : MIT Press, DB - UniCat KW - City planning KW - City and town life KW - Landscape KW - River engineering KW - Landscapes KW - Regions & Countries - Americas KW - History & Archaeology KW - United States Local History KW - Cities and towns KW - Civic planning KW - Land use, Urban KW - Model cities KW - Redevelopment, Urban KW - Slum clearance KW - Town planning KW - Urban design KW - Urban development KW - Urban planning KW - Land use KW - Planning KW - Art, Municipal KW - Civic improvement KW - Regional planning KW - Urban policy KW - Urban renewal KW - Engineering, River KW - Hydraulic engineering KW - Water resources development KW - Countryside KW - Natural scenery KW - Scenery KW - Scenic landscapes KW - Nature KW - City life KW - Town life KW - Urban life KW - Sociology, Urban KW - History. KW - Social aspects KW - History KW - Government policy KW - Management KW - Charles River (Mass.) KW - Charles River Valley (Mass.) KW - Boston Region (Mass.) KW - Charles Valley (Mass.) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77900475 AB - "Two hundred years ago the Charles was a tidal river, edged by hundreds of acres of salt marshes and mudflats. Inventing the Charles River describes how, before the creation of the basin could begin, the river first had to be imagined as a single public space. The new esplanades along the river changed the way Bostonians perceived their city: and the basin, with its expansive views of Boston and Cambridge, became an iconic image of the metropolis." "The book focuses on the precarious balance between transportation planning and the stewardship of the public realm. Long before the esplanades were realized, great swaths of the river were given over to industrial enterprises and transportation - millponds, bridges, landfills, and a complex network of road and railway bridges. In 1929, Boston's first major highway controversy erupted when a four-lane road was proposed as part of a new esplanade. At twenty-year intervals, three riverfront road disputes followed, successively more discordant and complex, culminating in the lawsuits over "Scheme Z," the Big Dig's plan for eighteen lanes of highway ramps and bridges over the river. More than four hundred photographs, maps, and drawings illustrate past and future visions for the Charles and document the river's place in Boston's history."--Jacket. ER -