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Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:46:01 -0400
From: Jud Wolfskill <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: book announcement--Krieger
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The following is a book which readers of this list might find of
interest.  For more information please visit
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/KRIMHF99


Mapping Boston

edited by Alex Krieger and David Cobb

with Amy Turner


This book includes both historical maps of Boston and maps showing the
gradual emergence of the New England region from the imaginations of
explorers to a form that we would recognize today. Each map is
accompanied by a full description and by a short essay offering an
insight into its context. The topics of these essays by Anne Mackin
include people both familiar and unknown, landmarks, and events that
were significant in shaping the landscape or life of the city. A
highlight of the book is a series of new maps detailing Boston's
growth.


The book also contains seven essays that explore the intertwining of
maps and history. Urban historian Sam Bass Warner, Jr., starts with a
capsule history of Boston. Barbara McCorkle, David Bosse, and David
Cobb discuss the making and trading of maps from the sixteenth to the
nineteenth century. Historian Nancy S. Seasholes reviews the city's
remarkable topographic history as reflected in maps, and planner Alex
Krieger explores the relation between maps and the physical reality of
the city as experienced by residents and visitors. In an epilogue,
novelist James Carroll ponders the place of Boston in contemporary
culture and the interior maps we carry of a city.


Alex Krieger is Chairman of the Department of Urban Planning and Design
at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a principal of Chan
Krieger & Associates, where Amy Turner is an architect. David Cobb is
Head of the Harvard Map Collection at the Harvard College Library.


12 x 11 1/2, 272 pp., 237 illus., 100 color, cloth ISBN 0-262-11244-2


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