Posts Tagged ‘environmental issues’
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Read MoreA Lost Park: Longfellow’s Parklands
By Annette LaMond | S.M., MIT Sloan School of Management | Ph.D., Yale University There are various lenses through which to view the history of a city, and the treatment of open space and development of parks may be as revealing as any other. This is particularly true in Cambridge – one of the most…
Read MoreA Brief History of Zoning in Cambridge
By Doug Brown, 2016 Just as we have a place for everything in a well-ordered home, so we should have a place for everything in a well-regulated town. What would we think of a housewife who insisted on keeping her gas range in the parlor and her piano in the kitchen?–Cambridge Tribune, March 8, 1919…
Read MoreThe Downside of Progress
By Doug Brown, 2017 Cambridge has made a lot of things over the centuries, not all of them valuable. Our manufacturing history has its dirty, dangerous downside, and dealing with the hazards and by-products of production has always been a challenge in this jam-packed, 7.1-square-mile city. By the end of the 19th century, the technological…
Read MoreSeries I: Brattle Street
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Read MoreSeries V. North Cambridge
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Read MoreChestnut Trees in Cambridge by Jason Weksner, Arborist
American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata) have all but vanished from Massachusetts landscapes, thanks to the fungal pathogen Cryphonectria parasitica, commonly known as chestnut blight. The lovely horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) from Europe, although a different genus from our native chestnut tree, has now established itself in the local landscape. While smaller than the American chestnut,…
Read MoreGarden Street Garden Club Records, 1879-1897
Administrative Information Historical Sketch Related Collections Sources Scope and Content Note Library of Congress Subject Headings Series Description and Folder Listing 1 document box .5 linear feet Processor: Kristy Sharpe Date: April 2005 Acquisition: Unknown Access: There are no restrictions to items in this collection. Permission to Publish: Requests for permission to publish from the…
Read MoreSeries VI: Cambridge Related
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