Making Maps

Readings

1 • Topographic Construction and The Gatehouse

Discuss 1 September

Zaitzevsky, Cynthia. 1982 Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Ch.1, pp 3-18 and Ch. 4, pp 51-64. SB 483.B73 Z34

Seasholes, Nancy. "Gaining Ground: Boston�s Topographical Development in Maps," in Mapping Boston, Alex Krieger and David Cobb, eds. 1999. Boston: MIT Press. GA 430 .M36 1999

Further Resources for Readings 1

Whitehill, Walter Muir. 1959. Boston: A Topographical History. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. F 73.3 .W57 1959

Back Bay Boston: The City as a Work of Art. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1969. N 6535 .B7 B75

Krieger, Alex and David Cobb, eds. 1999. Mapping Boston. Boston: MIT Press. GA 430 .M36 1999

Soil Conservation Service. 1989. Soil Survey of Norfolk and Suffolk Counties, Massachusetts.