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The Hub’s Metropolis: Greater Boston’s Development from Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth
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James O’Connell
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The Hub's Metropolis:
Greater Boston's Suburban Development from Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth
This event includes a book signing
DateSep
13
Friday
September 13, 2013 3:00 PM ET |
LocationHarvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 |
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This event is free; no tickets are required.
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Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome community and urban planner and author JAMES O'CONNELL as he discusses his latest book The Hub's Metropolis: Greater Boston's Suburban Development from Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth.
The Hub’s Metropolis: Boston’s Suburban Development, is the first comprehensive historical overview of Boston’s suburban development, from the earliest country estates to suburban sprawl and the smart growth movement. This book provides historical context for understanding the region’s contemporary planning efforts that are addressing the challenges of low-density sprawl, climate change, and the global information age economy. The Hub’s Metropolis combines the perspectives of an urban historian and an experienced Massachusetts urban planner.
The Hub’s Metropolis examines ten periods of Greater Boston’s metropolitan development:
- Traditional Village Centers and Proto-Suburbs (1800-1860)
- Country Retreats (1820-1920)
- Railroad Suburbs (1840-1920)
- Streetcar Suburbs (1870-1930)
- Metropolitan Parkway Suburbs (1895-1945)
- Mill Towns (1820-present)
- Postwar Automobile Suburbs (1945-1970)
- Boston Redefines the Center City (1945-present)
- Interstates, Exurbs, and Sprawl (1970-present)
- Smart Growth Era (1990-present)
The Hub’s Metropolis describes how Boston has been a national pace-setter for many features of suburbanization, including country estates, railroad suburbs, streetcar suburbs, land use zoning, open space conservation, highway beltways, shopping centers, office parks, edge cities, and central city revitalization. Landscape architecture pioneer Frederick Law Olmsted promoted model suburban designs from his home and office in the garden suburb of Brookline. The Metropolitan District Commission’s park-and-parkway system, which was created around 1900, was the country’s first example of regional planning. The city of Boston is noteworthy for its vibrant central city, which suffered a painful postwar decline, but crafted a nationally-regarded revival.
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