Inventing the Charles River
"A remarkable and beautiful book outlining the origins of the famed and admired Charles River." Dennis Lythgoe Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah"a superb book" The Boston Sunday Globe Magazine"...[a] fascinating fact-packed and photo-filled book." Boston Metro"Haglund has fascinating stories to tell... serious students of urban development will be engrossed." H. Nolan ASLA"Inventing the Charles River is a fascinating account of how a great urban area acquired its current shape." Philip Langdon New Urban News"Inventing the Charles River makes it hard to think about the Charles in the same way again." Max Page Architecture Boston"...lavishly illustrated with maps, etchings, lithographs, drawings, paintings, and photographs..." APA"...[Tells] a sweeping, detailed story of the directed evolution that produced the Charles that Bostonians and tourists cherish today." Civil Engineering"The book swells with Haglund's excellent research and hundreds of illuminating maps, photographs, and plans." Michael B. Shavelson Bostonia"Throughly fascinating..." Michael Kenney Boston Globe"The wonderful Charles River is taken as a given, but, as this elegant, illuminating book shows, the Charles is also a gift. Karl Haglund honors its inventors, our benefactors, by showing as well that their work remains unfinished. Haglund has written an important, beautiful book."--James Carroll, Boston Globe columnist, and author of Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews"In an era when human incursion into the landscape invites trepidation, Karl Haglund's thorough and intriguing *Inventing the Charles River* arrives to remind us that heroic construction can, in fact, ameliorate it. Haglund's timely and engaging tale of the transformation of a river replete with 'squalid hovels' and 'inky black' sewage deposits shows how the past can be the portent of a better future."--Jane Holtz Kay, architecture and planning critic, and author of *Lost Boston* and *Asphalt Nation*