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December 2002
10 x 9, 515 pp., 350 illus., 90 color
$55.00/£40.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-08307-8
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-08307-2

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Inventing the Charles River
Karl Haglund
Foreword by Renata von Tscharner


Reviews

"a superb book"
The Boston Sunday Globe Magazine

"...[Tells] a sweeping, detailed story of the directed evolution that produced the Charles that Bostonians and tourists cherish today."
Civil Engineering

"...lavishly illustrated with maps, etchings, lithographs, drawings, paintings, and photographs..."
APA

"Haglund has fascinating stories to tell... serious students of urban development will be engrossed."
H. Nolan, ASLA

"Inventing the Charles River is a fascinating account of how a great urban area acquired its current shape."
Philip Langdon, New Urban News

"Inventing the Charles River makes it hard to think about the Charles in the same way again."
Max Page, Architecture Boston

"A remarkable and beautiful book outlining the origins of the famed and admired Charles River."
Dennis Lythgoe, Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah

"The book swells with Haglund's excellent research and hundreds of illuminating maps, photographs, and plans."
Michael B. Shavelson, Bostonia

"...[a] fascinating fact-packed and photo-filled book."
Boston Metro

"Throughly fascinating..."
Michael Kenney, Boston Globe

 
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