Article: Making the single city: the constitutive landscape and the struggle for âGreater Boston,â 1891â1911
Landscape research. 2017 Apr. 3, v. 42, no. 3
2017
Abstract: While historical studies of urbanisation tend to focus on the morphological and social changes of cities in transition, the very ontological status of the city itself can be historically located as an emergence dependent on specific political, cultural ... ...
Abstract | While historical studies of urbanisation tend to focus on the morphological and social changes of cities in transition, the very ontological status of the city itself can be historically located as an emergence dependent on specific political, cultural and technical conditions. This essay examines the attempt to create a single âGreater Bostonâ entity at the end of the nineteenth century in response to forces which were ostensibly linking the separate communities of Massachusetts Bay together into a single whole. Using statistical methods, representational techniques, environmental transformation and appeals to community solidarity in order to make their case for the ârealâ status of an enlarged Boston, this movement sheds light on how the limits of the âsingleâ city are historically contested. This essay argues against radical critiques of spatial boundedness and advances a theory of the âconstitutive landscapeâ which emphasises the way in which bounded, unitary geographic entities are historically made. |
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Keywords | cities ; landscapes ; politics ; social change ; statistical analysis ; urbanization ; Massachusetts |
Language | English |
Dates of publication | 2017-0403 |
Size | p. 243-255. |
Publishing place | Routledge |
Document type | Article |
ZDB-ID | 2020719-0 |
ISSN | 0142-6397 ; 1469-9710 ; 0142-6397 |
ISSN (online) | 0142-6397 ; 1469-9710 |
ISSN | 0142-6397 |
DOI | 10.1080/01426397.2016.1267130 |
Database | NAL-Catalogue (AGRICOLA) |
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