INDEX Note: Page numbers in italic type indicate the presence of figures, illustrations, or tables. Aberjona River, Adams, Charles Francis, Jr., , – African Americans, , , agriculture: climate’s/weather’s effect on, , ; development and, ; and ensilage, –, , –; forests in relation to, , , –, –; greenhouses and, ; husbandry practices in, ; intensive, , –, , n; Midwestern competition in, , –, –; New England subsistence farming, ; nineteenth-century transformations in, –, –, –, –; and pastureland, , , , –, –; railroads and, –; twentieth-century decline of, , –. See also dairy farming air pollution, , airport. See Logan Airport Alabama, , Alewife Brook Parkway, , , Alewife Reservation, almanacs, –, –, n almshouses, , , , , , American Indians. See Native Americans American Public Health Association Committee on Bathing Places, American Revolution, Ames, Nathaniel, –, – Anderson, Kathleen S., , , – annexation, , Arlington, , Army Corps of Engineers. See U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Arnold Arboretum, – Assabet River, Atlantic Avenue, automobiles. See parkways; transportation Bache, Alexander D., Back Bay: desirability/undesirability of, –; early appearance of, , ; isolation of, ; land making and, , ; present-day, –; sedimentation in, ; street-use patterns in, ; tidal reservoir of, ; waste in, Backus, Isaac, –, Bacon, Francis, Baldwin, George, , , , , , , n, n Baron,William, , , Baxter, Sylvester, , –, , , , , , beaches: class and, ; at drumlin headlands , ; geological origins of, ; in park system, , –, –; waste and, , , Beacon Hill, , , – Beacon Street, , , Bell, Michael, Bellamy, Edward, , Bennington,Vermont, Bhatti, Ilyas, , Bible, –, , Billerica milldam, – Bird, Francis W., –, Blazing Stars Messengers of God’sWrath, Blue Heron Bridge, Blue Hill Avenue, Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, – Blue Hills Parkway, Blue Hills Reservation, , , , Board of Harbor Commissioners, , , – Board of Health. See Boston Board of Health Boston: as city on a hill, , , ; countryside in relation to, –, – , ; eotechnic period of, –; European-American development of, –, –; future of, –; geological origins of, ; incorporation of, ; land use in, –, –; living conditions in, ; neotechnic period of, –; paleotechnic period of, –; political influence of, ; population of, , , , , , , , , ; waste in, – Index Boston & Lowell Railroad, , Boston Associates, , Boston Athenaeum, Boston Basin, , Boston Blue Clay, , – Boston Board of Health, , , – Boston Catholic Archdiocese, Boston City Hospital, Boston Common, , Boston Conservation Commission, Boston Daily Advertiser (newspaper), , Boston Daily Globe (newspaper), Boston Edison, – Boston Evening-Post (newspaper), , Boston Floating Hospital, Boston Gazette (newspaper), , Boston Globe (newspaper), , –, –, , Boston Harbor, –; city policies and actions concerning, ; climate’s/ weather’s effect on, –; concerns over health of, –, , , –, ; current status of, –; defensive value of, ; federal work in, –, –; floor of, ; future of, ; geological origins of, –, –, –; land making and, , , , , –; map of, ; nature of, –; ocean invasion of, –, ; passage through, –; preservation efforts for, –, –; reshaping, –; role of scientific theories in approach to, –; seawall construction in, ; shipping in, ; shoaling of, , –, , , , ; significance of, , ; state policies and actions concerning, –, –; study of, ; waste in, – Boston Harbor Committee, Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, Boston Land Company, Boston Manufacturing Company, –, Boston Marine Society, –, Boston Neck, , , Boston Post (newspaper), , Boston Public Library, Boston Tide Gauge, Boston University, Boston Water Board, Boston Waterfront Development Corporation (BWDC) decision, – Boston Wharf Company, Boston– campaign, , Boudrot, Francis, Boudrot,Theresa, , Boulevard Act. See parkways boulevards, , , , n Boutwell, George, –, Bowditch, Ernest W., n Bowditch, Louise, Bowen, Abel, , , boxboard boom, , – Boyle, Robert, Boylston Street, , – Boylston Street Fishweir, Brandeis, Louis, Braxtton,William, Breakheart Reservation, Breed’s Hill, Breed’s Island, breweries, Brighton, , Brookline, , buildings, floor-use patterns in, – Bulfinch, Charles, Bullard, Henry, Bunker Hill, – Burgess, Ernest W., Burnham, Daniel, Bush, George H.W., business and industry: and Boston Harbor debate, , ; Boston Harbor’s contribution to, –; climate’s/weather’s effect on, –, –; environmental changes motivated by, –, ; and land use, , , ; in neotechnic period, ; in paleotechnic period, – Byles, Mather, Jr., –, Byles, Mather, Sr., Cambridge, , Cape Cod, –, Carleton, Osgood, Carney Hospital, Carol R. Johnson Associates, , , Carson Beach, Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring, Castle Island, , n cattle feeding, , , – cemeteries, , Central Artery, Chadwick, Edwin, Chamberlain, Allen, Charles River: Boston’s parks and, , ; development of, , , , , ; and geology of Boston, ; land [54.225.56.41] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 12:49 GMT) Index making in, –; parkway along, ; recreation on, , , , –; sedimentation in, ; and tidal scour, –, , –; tides and, ; urban planning and, –; and waste, Charles River Basin, , , Charles River Dam, –, , , , Charles River Esplanade, , , Charles River Reservation, , Charles River Watershed Association, Charles Street, Charles-to-Charles (Boston Conservation Commission), Charleston, South Carolina, Charlestown, , , , , –, , Charlestown NavyYard, , Chauncy, Charles, , –, , Cheever, A.W., , Chelsea, Chesbrough, Ellis, –, –, , , , , –, Chicago, Illinois, , , , , , children, , – cholera, , , Christian Science Monitor (newspaper), cities: core and periphery in, –, ; horizontal fringe pattern in, , , ; land-use patterns in premodern, –; street-use patterns in, ; transportation’s effect on, –; vertical fringe pattern in, –, – City Beautiful movement, , –, , , City Functional movement, , City of Cambridge Water Board, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clap,Thomas, – Clarke, Eliot C., Main DrainageWorks of the City of Boston, – class: and beaches, ; and development, ; islands and, –; land use patterns and, , –, –, ; parks/parkways and, –; and the waterfront, clay. See Boston Blue Clay...