Author: John F. Kennedy School of Government

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-04-30

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9780365719236

Excerpt from Redevelopment of the Boston Waterfront By the first decades of the twentieth century, the utilitarian steamship had replaced the graceful clipper; but more significant to Boston's decline as a prosperous port was the introduction of the railroad and the truck as means of transport. By l930, Boston was no longer a major port, but rather a market for goods transported over land from New York and Baltimore. The relation of use to form in both the wharves and the market place became increasingly obscure. The warehouses along Commercial, India and Long Wharves began to house small manufacturing and storage firms. Although some fishermen remained, most of the fishing and virtually all of the shipping business moved to South Boston. The waterfront was no longer the nerve and energy of Boston's economic center, and the thriving, elegant wharves were deserted and derelict. Although the North End did not lose its life or its charm, it lost its connection to the sea; although it still produces rich aromas of garlic and pasta, the waterfront does not give it life. It remains a tightly knit working class Italian community with a law and a life of its own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.