Streetcar Suburbs
| Author | : Sam Bass WARNER |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 237 |
| Release | : 2009-06-30 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780674044890 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0674044894 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Streetcar Suburbs by : Sam Bass WARNER
Download or read book Streetcar Suburbs written by Sam Bass WARNER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last third of the 19th century Boston grew from a crowded merchant town, in which nearly everybody walked to work, to a modern divided metropolis. The street railway created this division of the metropolis into an inner city of commerce and slums and an outer city of commuter suburbs. This book tells who built the new city, and why, and how.
