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[Waltham, MA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2002]

MIT Press, Date: 2002. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2002. MIT Press ISBN 0262083078 9780262083072 [US]

The MIT Press, Date: 2002-09-16. 1. hardcover. Used: Good. 2002. The MIT Press ISBN 0262083078 9780262083072 [US]

MIT Press. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn and wrinkled, hardcover in near fine condition. . Near Fine. Hardcover. Date: 2003. 2003. MIT Press ISBN 0262083078 9780262083072 [US]

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ISBN10: 0262083078, ISBN13: 9780262083072, [publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge] Hardcover 10 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Lavish color and B&W plates. Condition is FINE ; like new on all points. Text spotless. DJ is NEAR FINE ; very clean, minimal edge wear. Am Hist. Stax.
[Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2003]
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Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press in cooperation with the Charles River Conservancy, Date: 2003. Hardbound. VG. Dark green cloth on boards with gold lettering on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, [xxii] 493 pp, over 300 bw and color photographs, maps, and drawings. From the publisher: The Charles River Basin, extending nine miles upstream from the harbor, has been called Boston's "Central Park." Yet few realize that this apparently natural landscape is a totally fabricated public space. Two hundred years ago the Charles was a tidal river, edged by hundreds of acres of salt marshes and mudflats. Inventing the Charles River describes how, before the creation of the basin could begin, the river first had to be imagined as a single public space. The new esplanades along the river changed the way Bostonians perceived their city; and the basin, with its expansive views of Boston and Cambridge, became an iconic image of the metropolis. The book focuses on the precarious balance between transportation planning and stewardship of the public realm. Long before the esplanades were realized, great swaths of the river were given over to industrial enterprises and transportation—millponds, bridges, landfills, and a complex network of road and railway bridges. In 1929, Boston's first major highway controversy erupted when a four-lane road was proposed as part of a new esplanade. At twenty-year intervals, three riverfront road disputes followed, successively more complex and ...

Cambridge: MIT Press, cDate: 2003. Paperback. Very good condition. 493pp. 23 x 26 cm. Review copy 2003. MIT Press ISBN 0262083078 9780262083072 [US]

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Hardcover. Date: 2003. 1st Edition. 4to 493pp . Fine in Very Good+ DJ. B&W and Color Illustrations. Very brief in gift inscription at top corner of title page. DJ has slight edgewear at top of spine . Published in cooperation with the Charles River Conservancy. Examines the history of Boston's Charles River Basin . 2003. MIT Press ISBN 0262083078 9780262083072 [US]

The MIT Press, Date: 2002-09-16. 1. hardcover. Used:Good. 2002. The MIT Press ISBN 0262083078 9780262083072 [US]

Mit Pr, Date: 2002. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 512 pages. 9.75x10.50x1.75 inches. 2002. Mit Pr ISBN 0262083078 9780262083072 [GB]