|
|
|
Boston’s Back Bay
The Story of America’s Greatest Nineteenth-Century Landfill Project
William Newman, Wilfred E. Holton
Northeastern University Press
University Press of New England
Table of Contents
• Preface • Prehistory of the Back Bay
• Why Fill the Back Bay? • Planning and Financing the Back Bay Landfill • Locomotives and Steam Shovels • Gravel Trains and Bold Entrepreneurs
• A Shocking Development Fails to Derail the Project
• Environmental Problems and Zoning • Epilogue • Notes • Index
|
|
|
