Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900

By (author): "Sam B. Warner, Sam Bass Warner, Jr."
Publish Date: January 1st 1962
Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900
ISBN0674842111
ISBN139780674842113
AsinStreetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900
Original titleStreetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900
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.