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Mapping the History of Public Transportation in The Hub

by Steven Beaucher

ISBN: 9780262048071

A richly illustrated story of public transit in one of America's most historic cities, from public ferry and horse-drawn carriage to the MBTA.

The Hub's Metropolis

Greater Boston's Development from Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth

by James C. O'Connell

With Albert LaFarge

ISBN: 9780262545860

The evolution of the Boston metropolitan area, from country villages and streetcar suburbs to exurban sprawl and “smart growth.”

Where Futures Converge

Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub

by Robert Buderi

ISBN: 9780262046510

The evolution of the most innovative square mile on the planet: the endless cycles of change and reinvention that created today's Kendall Square.

Born in Cambridge

400 Years of Ideas and Innovators

by Karen Weintraub and Michael Kuchta

ISBN: 9780262046800

Anne Bradstreet, W.E.B. Du Bois, gene editing, and Junior Mints: cultural icons, influential ideas, and world-changing innovations from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Building Old Cambridge

Architecture and Development

by Susan E. Maycock and Charles M. Sullivan

Foreword by Jill Lepore

Preface by William B. King

ISBN: 9780262034807

An extensively illustrated, comprehensive exploration of the architecture and development of Old Cambridge from colonial settlement to bustling intersection of town and gown.

A Landscape History of New England

Edited by Blake Harrison and Richard W. Judd

Afterword by John Elder

ISBN: 9780262525275

An examination of New England's diverse landscapes, and our varying perceptions of them, across two centuries of settlement, work, and recreation.

Fresh Pond

The History of a Cambridge Landscape

by Jill Sinclair

ISBN: 9780262195911

The history of Fresh Pond Reservation—onetime summer retreat for wealthy Bostonians, center of the nineteenth-century ice industry, and stomping grounds for Harvard students—told through photographs, maps and plans, and stories.

Inventing the Charles River

by Karl Haglund

ISBN: 9780262083072

An illustrated account of the creation of the Charles River Basin, focusing on the precarious balance between transportation planning and the stewardship of the public realm.