Boston
Subtitle: a topographical history
By: Walter Muir Whitehill and Lawrence W. Kennedy.
Contributors: Kennedy, Lawrence W., 1952-
Edition: 3rd ed., enl.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Historic buildings -- Massachusetts -- Boston.; Architecture -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.; Boston (Mass.) -- History.; Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel.; Boston (Mass.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Description: "This book covering more than 300 years of the course of Boston's history has now been enlarged with an account of the city's new urban design, architecture, and historic preservation. In the last three decades momentous changes have visited this colonial city made modern. Lawrence W. Kennedy portrays the Boston that preserved much of the intimacy of the remembered place while creating a dramatic new skyline.

Boston has been remarkably transformed while keeping human the features of a beloved city."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-363) and index.