Boston's Back Bay, the story of America's greatest nineteenth-century landfill project, William A. Newman and Wilfred E. Holton
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Boston's Back Bay, the story of America's greatest nineteenth-century landfill project, William A. Newman and Wilfred E. Holton
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrationsmaps
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
Boston's Back Bay
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bibliography
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62755485
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William A. Newman and Wilfred E. Holton
Sub title
the story of America's greatest nineteenth-century landfill project
Table Of Contents
Prehistory of the Back Bay -- Why fill the Back Bay? -- Planning and financing the Back Bay Landfill -- Locomotives and steam shovels -- Gravel trains and bold entrepreneurs -- A shocking development fails to derail the project -- Environmental problems and zoning
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