Boston's Back Bay
Subtitle: The Story of America's Greatest Nineteenth-Century Landfill Project
Publisher: Northeastern
Published: August 31, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781555536800
Subjects: Land reclamation & drainage; Local history; c 1800 to c 1900; Social Science; History - U.S.; Sociology; Massachusetts; United States - State & Local - New England; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; Sociology - Urban; United States - General; United States - Northeast - New England (General)
First sentence: The context for filling Boston's Back Bay in the nineteenth century must be understood in terms of over 800 million years of geological history.