Boston's Back Bay
Subtitle: The Story of America's Greatest Nineteenth-Century Landfill Project
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Published: March 24, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781555536510
Subjects: Land reclamation & drainage; Local history; c 1800 to c 1900; History - U.S; Boston; Social Science; Sociology; Massachusetts; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; United States - State & Local - New England; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; Back Bay (Boston, Mass.); Sociology - Urban; 19th century; History; Sanitary landfills
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.