Description: In the last third of the 19th century Boston grew from a crowded merchant town, in which nearly everybody walked to work, to a modern divided metropolis. The street railway created this division of the metropolis into an inner city of commerce and slums and an outer city of commuter suburbs. This book tells who built the new city, and why, and how.
Brief description: Sam Bass Warner, Jr., is Visiting Professor of Urban History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Review Quotes: With almost tender attention to detail and judicious selection of maps, charts, and especially photographs, Mr. Warner marks himself a 'Boston-lover' ...This volume helps to unfold further the layers of complexities that conceal in obscurity the development of the modern city... A masterly introduction to the subject.-- "American Historical Review"