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Book Synopsis Portrait of a Port by : W. H. Bunting
Download or read book Portrait of a Port written by W. H. Bunting and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrait Of A Port is a classic portrayal of Boston's glorious maritime past opens a window onto the history of American port cities.
Book Synopsis The Port of Boston, Massachusetts by :
Download or read book The Port of Boston, Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Port of Boston, Massachusetts by : United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors
Download or read book The Port of Boston, Massachusetts written by United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gaining Ground by : Nancy S. Seasholes
Download or read book Gaining Ground written by Nancy S. Seasholes and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why and how Boston was transformed by landmaking. Fully one-sixth of Boston is built on made land. Although other waterfront cities also have substantial areas that are built on fill, Boston probably has more than any city in North America. In Gaining Ground historian Nancy Seasholes has given us the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created.The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent settlement to the present. Seasholes introduces findings from recent archaeological investigations in Boston, and relates landmaking to the major historical developments that shaped it. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, landmaking in Boston was spurred by the rapid growth that resulted from the burgeoning China trade. The influx of Irish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century prompted several large projects to create residential land—not for the Irish, but to keep the taxpaying Yankees from fleeing to the suburbs. Many landmaking projects were undertaken to cover tidal flats that had been polluted by raw sewage discharged directly onto them, removing the "pestilential exhalations" thought to cause illness. Land was also added for port developments, public parks, and transportation facilities, including the largest landmaking project of all, the airport. A separate chapter discusses the technology of landmaking in Boston, explaining the basic method used to make land and the changes in its various components over time. The book is copiously illustrated with maps that show the original shoreline in relation to today's streets, details from historical maps that trace the progress of landmaking, and historical drawings and photographs.
Book Synopsis Trapped Under the Sea by : Neil Swidey
Download or read book Trapped Under the Sea written by Neil Swidey and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job—with deadly results A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of “black mayonnaise.” Fisheries collapsed, wildlife fled, and locals referred to floating tampon applicators as “beach whistles.” In the 1990s, work began on a state-of-the-art treatment plant and a 10-mile-long tunnel—its endpoint stretching farther from civilization than the earth’s deepest ocean trench—to carry waste out of the harbor. With this impressive feat of engineering, Boston was poised to show the country how to rebound from environmental ruin. But when bad decisions and clashing corporations endangered the project, a team of commercial divers was sent on a perilous mission to rescue the stymied cleanup effort. Five divers went in; not all of them came out alive. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents collected over five years of reporting, award-winning writer Neil Swidey takes us deep into the lives of the divers, engineers, politicians, lawyers, and investigators involved in the tragedy and its aftermath, creating a taut, action-packed narrative. The climax comes just after the hard-partying DJ Gillis and his friend Billy Juse trade assignments as they head into the tunnel, sentencing one of them to death. An intimate portrait of the wreckage left in the wake of lives lost, the book—which Dennis Lehane calls "extraordinary" and compares with The Perfect Storm—is also a morality tale. What is the true cost of these large-scale construction projects, as designers and builders, emboldened by new technology and pressured to address a growing population’s rapacious needs, push the limits of the possible? This is a story about human risk—how it is calculated, discounted, and transferred—and the institutional failures that can lead to catastrophe. Suspenseful yet humane, Trapped Under the Sea reminds us that behind every bridge, tower, and tunnel—behind the infrastructure that makes modern life possible—lies unsung bravery and extraordinary sacrifice.
Book Synopsis Remaking Boston by : Anthony N. Penna
Download or read book Remaking Boston written by Anthony N. Penna and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2009 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remaking Boston chronicles many of the events that altered the physical landscape of Boston, while also offering multidisciplinary perspectives on the environmental history of one of America's oldest and largest metropolitan areas.
Book Synopsis The Port of Boston, Massachusetts by :
Download or read book The Port of Boston, Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A People's Guide to Greater Boston by : Joseph Nevins
Download or read book A People's Guide to Greater Boston written by Joseph Nevins and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Herein, we bring you to sites that have been central to the lives of 'the people' of Greater Boston over four centuries. You'll visit sites associated with the area's indigenous inhabitants and with the individuals and movements who sought to abolish slavery, to end war, challenge militarism, and bring about a more peaceful world, to achieve racial equity, gender justice, and sexual liberation, and to secure the rights of workers. We take you to some well-known sites, but more often to ones far off the well-beaten path of the Freedom Trail, to places in Boston's outlying neighborhoods. We also visit sites in numerous other municipalities that make up the Greater Boston region-from places such as Lawrence, Lowell and Lynn to Concord and Plymouth. The sites to which we do 'travel' include homes given that people's struggles, activism, and organizing sometimes unfold, or are even birthed in many cases in living rooms and kitchens. Trying to capture a place as diverse and dynamic as Boston is highly challenging. (One could say that about any 'big' place.) We thus want to make clear that our goal is not to be comprehensive, or to 'do justice' to the region. Given the constraints of space and time as well as the limitations of knowledge--both our own and what is available in published form--there are many important sites, cities, and towns that we have not included. Thus, in exploring scores of sites across Boston and numerous municipalities, our modest goal is to paint a suggestive portrait of the greater urban area that highlights its long-contested nature. In many ways, we merely scratch the region's surface--or many surfaces--given the multiple layers that any one place embodies. In writing about Greater Boston as a place, we run the risk of suggesting that the city writ-large has some sort of essence. Indeed, the very notion of a particular place assumes intrinsic characteristics and an associated delimited space. After all, how can one distinguish one place from another if it has no uniqueness and is not geographically differentiated? Nonetheless, geographer Doreen Massey insists that we conceive of places as progressive, as flowing over the boundaries of any particular space, time, or society; in other words, we should see places as processual or ever-changing, as unbounded in that they shape and are shaped by other places and forces from without, and as having multiple identities. In exploring Greater Boston from many venues over 400 years, we embrace this approach. That said, we have to reconcile this with the need to delimit Greater Boston--for among other reasons, simply to be in a position to name it and thus distinguish it from elsewhere"--
Book Synopsis The Best Cruise Destinations by : Insight Guides
Download or read book The Best Cruise Destinations written by Insight Guides and published by Insight Guides. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Boston Harbor Massachusetts Deep Draft Navigation Improvement Project by :
Download or read book Boston Harbor Massachusetts Deep Draft Navigation Improvement Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1266 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (327 download)
Book Synopsis Navigation Improvements for Boston Harbor, Massachusetts by : United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)
Download or read book Navigation Improvements for Boston Harbor, Massachusetts written by United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Boston Harbor, Mass by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors
Download or read book Boston Harbor, Mass written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Boston Harbor Navigation Improvement and Berth Dredging Project by :
Download or read book Boston Harbor Navigation Improvement and Berth Dredging Project written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on rivers and harbors Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :132 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Boston Harbor, Mass. Hearings ... on the Subject of the Improvement of Boston Harbor, Mass by : United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on rivers and harbors
Download or read book Boston Harbor, Mass. Hearings ... on the Subject of the Improvement of Boston Harbor, Mass written by United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on rivers and harbors and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Third Harbor Tunnel, I-90/Central Artery, I-93, Boston by :
Download or read book Third Harbor Tunnel, I-90/Central Artery, I-93, Boston written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cultural Landscape Report for the Boston Harbor Islands, Boston Harbor Islands National & State Park, Boston, Massachusetts by : Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation (U.S.)
Download or read book Cultural Landscape Report for the Boston Harbor Islands, Boston Harbor Islands National & State Park, Boston, Massachusetts written by Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Observations on the Act of Parliament Commonly Called the Boston Port-bill by : Josiah Quincy
Download or read book Observations on the Act of Parliament Commonly Called the Boston Port-bill written by Josiah Quincy and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
