Streetcar Suburbs: the Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900
- 244 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Sam Bass Warner Book order
Sam Bass Warner, Jr. is a Visiting Professor of Urban History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work delves into the historical evolution of cities and the societal structures that shape them. Warner examines how urban environments have developed over time and how this evolution has impacted the lives of their inhabitants. His research offers profound insights into the past and present of urban existence.
- 2021
- 1978
Streetcar Suburbs
- 230 pages
- 9 hours of reading
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.