{"product_id":"2026200014670-secondhand-streetcar-suburbs-the-process-of-growth-in-boston-1870-1900","title":"Streetcar Suburbs: The Process Of Growth In Boston, 1870-1900","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the decades following the Civil War, Boston underwent a dramatic transformation — one powered not by industry alone, but by the iron rails and electric cables of the streetcar — and Sam B. Warner Jr.'s Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870–1900 meticulously chronicles how this technological revolution reshaped the spatial and social fabric of an American metropolis. Drawing on rich archival data, Warner details the rapid suburbanization of Boston's outer neighborhoods, illustrating how the expansion of transit lines enabled tens of thousands of middle- and working-class families to abandon the congested inner city for newly platted residential communities in Roxbury, West Roxbury, and Dorchester.\n\nWarner's work stands as a landmark contribution to American urban history, presenting a rigorous yet accessible argument that private enterprise — rather than municipal planning — dictated the chaotic, fragmented pattern of suburban growth that would come to define twentieth-century American cities. His analytical precision is matched by a vivid narrative style that brings to life the speculative builders, streetcar entrepreneurs, and ordinary homeowners who collectively authored this urban revolution. A foundational text in urban studies and social history, Streetcar Suburbs leaves the reader questioning whether the city we inherited was ever truly designed — or simply accumulated.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49210285261019,"sku":"2026200014670-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b1971a0f-0986-482d-bcd6-33338e4ad237.png?v=1788268867","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014670-secondhand-streetcar-suburbs-the-process-of-growth-in-boston-1870-1900","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}